Re: [gentoo-user] split-usr

2024-01-12 Thread Felix Kuperjans
ofiles/features/merged-usr/ From what you're describing I think you you're not properly masking the split-usr USE flag, i.e. check especially use.force and use.mask. Cheers Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: How to copy gzip data from bytestream?

2022-02-22 Thread Felix Kuperjans
On 2022-02-22, Grant Edwards wrote: That doesn't work. It shows the size of the drive as the "uncompressed" size and 0 as compressed: # gzip -clt foo $ ls -l foo -rw-r--r-- 1 grante users 12923 Feb 22 07:51 foo $ gzip foo $ ls -l foo.gz -rw-r--r-- 1 grante users

Re: [gentoo-user] How to copy gzip data from bytestream?

2022-02-22 Thread Felix Kuperjans
her method to copy just those bytes (dd for example): gzip -clt Should print the compressed size in bytes, although by reading through the entire stream once. -- Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] best rss reader?

2020-04-20 Thread Felix Kuperjans
ly into folders - however, many others offer similar features as well. Best Regards Felix Am 19.04.20 um 23:15 schrieb Caveman Al Toraboran: > hi - could everyone share his rss reading setup? > > i have newsboat, but it got masked. so i'm now > starting to look around again. &g

Re: [gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-08 Thread Felix Miata
bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721660 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-08 Thread Felix Miata
Fernando Rodriguez composed on 2015-08-08 03:43 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: >> I don't get why any distro leaves this out, why anyone wouldn't like to >> automatically notice while booting any announcement that something failed, >> especially someone who has

[gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-07 Thread Felix Miata
han a kernel compile. :-( -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] boots, but not on first try

2015-08-07 Thread Felix Miata
Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-07 08:56 (UTC+0100): > On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:34:56 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> I got ahead of things I suppose on the bootloader instructions, which >> include no example for Grub 0.97. I did emerge -s grub to identify the >> package n

[gentoo-user] boots, but not on first try

2015-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
o-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/config-4.0.5-gentoo-gx780.txt -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
ntally stronger, and less distracted. Dogged persistence isn't a positive attribute in every context. Sleep gets short changed, and failure snowballs. Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-06 09:10 (UTC+0100): > On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 03:59:44 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> 1-Distrowatch is what

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
Jc García composed on 2015-08-05 23:57 (UTC-0600): > Felix Miata composed: >> Are you sure you read what I wrote and not what you think I wrote? Pages like >> LMGTFY *leads to*, not LMGTFY. I was where that *leads to* yesterday and the >> day before while progress

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
t;, at least for me who installed Gentoo only once previously, more than 4 years ago. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
Jc García composed on 2015-08-05 23:02 (UTC-0600): > 2015-08-05 22:40 GMT-06:00 Felix Miata ocmposed: >> Fernando Rodriguez composed on 2015-08-05 23:46 (UTC-0400): >>> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=download+gentoo >> Pages like that leads to are like Windows and Sourceforge

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
Fernando Rodriguez composed on 2015-08-05 23:46 (UTC-0400): > On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 10:23:03 PM Felix Miata wrote: ... >> all seemed to be arch-agnostic, so this is the one I tried (newest >> pre-Grub2): ... > What makes you think it's arch agnostic when it say

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata composed on 2015-08-05 22:23 (UTC-0400): > After reading > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Media#Minimal_installation_CD > which does not link to it until after its first mention I spent considerable > time on http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/ tr

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
hy the apparent arch error message. ??? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

[gentoo-user] 'tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2 --xattrs' failed with unknown option --xattrs

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
James composed on 2015-08-04 21:07 (UTC): > Interesting choice:: how do you like your choices, Felix? Choices are a double edged sword. The more you have, the more power you have, but the harder to choose, especially while overwhelmed by the unfamiliar. Your later provided ungrading

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-04 21:36 (UTC+0100): > On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:32:51 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> I've yet to figure out how to get a list of >> all installed packages akin to 'rpm -qa | sort', so I really don't know >> what my starti

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-04 18:44 (UTC+0100): > On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:12:42 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> 6-# emerge portage >> This produced a longish warning: >> !!! /etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most >> merges. !!! It

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
ir understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
Grant Edwards composed on 2015-08-04 17:20 (UTC): > Felix Miata wrote: >> That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on an >> old Athlon, which means no sse2, and kernel 2.6.37. It coexists in multiboot >> on one HD with 12 installations o

[gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
ir understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix

2013-09-11 Thread felix
entoo.org/wiki/Netflix > http://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Netflix/Pipelight Pipelight looks interesting; saved the bookmark. Thanks. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 44

Re: [gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix

2013-09-11 Thread felix
re so many such corners, and so much that each can do, that my interests have moved up a step. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 815

[gentoo-user] Gentoo on System76 laptop, and Netflix

2013-09-10 Thread felix
hed Windows for 15-20 years and see no reason to enrich Boll Gates' pension. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR

Re: [gentoo-user] pop up windows with text message

2013-07-13 Thread felix
green -fg red -file - -title Alert -nearmouse -default okay $xmopts -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] texlive-basic

2013-05-02 Thread Felix Kuperjans
or occurred on my 32-Bit systems, too (interestingly, not on any amd64 system). Was easily solved by recompiling luatex, it had some broken dependency not detected by revdep-rebuild. To check that, maybe try running luatex on the console, it crashed instantly on my boxes until it was re-emerged... > Thank you & Greetings Silvio Regards, Felix

[gentoo-user] udev upgrade and baselayout 2.2

2013-04-29 Thread felix
on a different disk but relies on the grub 1 boot setup, and I'd just as soon not upgrade to grub 2 ever if possible. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 2

Re: [gentoo-user] VirtualBox guest eth0/enp0s3 problem

2013-04-04 Thread Felix Kuperjans
; > I'm using stable packages (x86). > > Any suggestions? Thank you. > > -- > João de Matos > Linux User #461527 Regards, Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I prevent gentoo-sources being installed?

2013-03-24 Thread Felix Kuperjans
Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sun, 24 Mar 2013 19:41:18 +0100, Felix Kuperjans wrote: > >> BTW this will also add full kernel sources to all stage3 archives, >> increasing their size quite significantly. > Stage 3 archives only contains necessary packages for which there is no

Re: [gentoo-user] How can I prevent gentoo-sources being installed?

2013-03-24 Thread Felix Kuperjans
the kernel on the local machine, e.g. taking stock kernels from Debian/Fedora/..., kernel provided by netboot/openvz/Xen domUs or build them remotely will almost never need linux-sources installed. BTW this will also add full kernel sources to all stage3 archives, increasing their size quite significantly. Regards, Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] portage insists in pulling in sys-apps/kmod

2013-03-23 Thread Felix Kuperjans
Mike Gilbert: > On Sat, Mar 23, 2013 at 1:42 PM, Dan Johansson wrote: >> Hello, >> >> Some of my servers are running with a kernel without module-support. >> On these servers something has started to pull in sys-apps/kmod, which when >> compiled complains about missing modules-support in the kern

Re: [gentoo-user] PATA vs SATA kernel driver (was: 4 machines - no /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd anymore)

2013-01-09 Thread felix
uot;depreciated" is something else entirely, it's what your employer does > to the book value of your company car over 5 years to get the value > down to nothing. > > "Depreciated" is perfectly cromulent in this instance. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. .

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- SOLVED

2012-12-27 Thread felix
s it will be in 3.7.2. Thanks to everyone who helped here, especially with git bisect. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 IT

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- patch works

2012-12-26 Thread felix
m compiling with my normal config, including encfs and a lot of other gorp, and will try it in the morning. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- Bisect done

2012-12-26 Thread felix
rted compiling. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

[gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors -- Bisect done

2012-12-26 Thread felix
b287364f063aa420d9 a39a26dc3f6c0b21433688420a820b121a921cec M include -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-26 Thread felix
appy. My git-fu is weak, since I mostly use it for personal projects. Work only uses subversion, blecch. Didn't know about git tag, and got bisect help doesn't mention it. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repai

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
a repository which doesn't include 3.7.0? Google research continues. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR li

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
wnloaded, I'll make sure the 3.6.10 equivalent works and the 3.7.0 fails, then start bisecting. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
f the kernel. Even have to power off and wait a while before it resets properly for a 3.6.10 reboot. So I think it is bisecting for me. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E98

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
ler and compiled nice and fast. Hung just like the bloated one, drat. So I guess I will read up on bisecting. I know the principle, but have never tried it. I suppose one starting point is make sure a pure-vanilla 3.6.10 kernel boots. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
no drives The sata_mv drives are not necessary for boot, but they do take up /dev/sd? namespace. Might be interesting to try Bruce Hill's idea of a pruned 3.7.1 kernel without that driver. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow re

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-25 Thread felix
nt, since 3.6.10 still works. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat'

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
/bpaste.net/show/66317/ -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
emember that. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
show/66312/ I also added all this to the Dropbox dir. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
On Mon, Dec 24, 2012 at 10:07:04AM -0600, Bruce Hill wrote: > Would you consider our own pastebin from portage? Sure, in progress. I'll have to read up on this pastebin stuff. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman

Re: [gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-24 Thread felix
the full logs at the end. As for the cookies, so many sites require cookies and/or javascript these days that I won't waste my time trying to find one that doesn't. I just make sure they are temporary. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Fi

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-23 Thread felix
On Sun, Dec 23, 2012 at 10:49:46PM +0200, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: > Then boot that entry and see if you get any errors in the first 5 > minutes or so. Let it run a complete pass, about an hour, no errors. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-23 Thread felix
rge etc. But why would this be a memory problem when it is so clearly 3.6 vs 3.7? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

[gentoo-user] 3.7.1 SATA errors

2012-12-23 Thread felix
_ALGO_RSA) [N/m/?] (NEW) m X.509 certificate parser (X509_CERTIFICATE_PARSER) [N/m/?] (NEW) m -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus -- REBOOT OK THIS A.M.

2012-12-17 Thread felix
since there aren't fans to blow the dust around so much. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus -- REBOOT OK THIS A.M.

2012-12-14 Thread felix
lew out a battery in the standby generator shed, but I've rebooted twice since that storm without any problems. I guess it will remain a mystery. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfi

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus -- REBOOT OK THIS A.M.

2012-12-14 Thread felix
I finally ran out of excuses to not reboot after a night powered off, and it did. It's all running normally now, but I think it's time for me to take the hint, grab a clue, and start researching a replacement. -- Felix Finch, a la mode

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-14 Thread felix
d to have failed at the same > time; or it failed on the reboot; or USB and SATA are both on the southbridge > that failed so you lost both, basically. Then my natural naive question is, can this be readily replaced, or is it soldered in and/or obsolete? It is about 8 years old. -- Felix Finch, a la mode

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-14 Thread felix
g perfectly fine? I don't really think it was 3.7.0, but who knows, did I answer some config question incorrectly and tell it to load some firmware? Without access to the disk, I can't tell. I don't remember any question about loading BIOS firmware, and can't see why the kernel would even care about that. The whole mess makes no sense. -- Felix Finch, a la mode

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-14 Thread felix
ost as if 3.7.0 did something nasty and clobbered everything it could get its hands on. Well, I'll try again in a bit. -- Felix Finch, a la mode

Re: [gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-14 Thread felix
all got recycled a few years back :-( -- Felix Finch, a la mode

[gentoo-user] ~amd64 compatibility with modern cpus

2012-12-14 Thread felix
g 3.7.0 is what clobbered things; whether I added a option which loaded bad firmware, or 3.7.0 is broken, I have no idea. It could well be something unrelated to 3.7.0. My goal for today is to try to get keyboard and disk working, then boot with 3.6.8. -- Felix Finch, a la mode

Re: [gentoo-user] backing up system files

2012-12-03 Thread felix
tural choice for restoring the backup. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] swap on ssd?

2012-11-25 Thread felix
those 4g with 8g. Not when it's maxed at 4g. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] Creating KVM image using existing gentoo partition

2012-09-25 Thread felix
needn't waste more time educating on them. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

[gentoo-user] Creating KVM image using existing gentoo partition

2012-09-25 Thread felix
omething similar to copy everything over to the real partition. But that sounds ugly for some reason. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9

Re: [gentoo-user] Kernel options and udisk

2012-09-17 Thread Felix Kuperjans
ave a UPS added to that when I get around to rebooting again. I'm > not sure on how I will end up connecting it yet. In case you have no USB sticks and never want to use any USB storage device, you won't need udisks at all, try disabling the "udisks" USE flags on your desktop packages (esp. gvfs). Regards, Felix

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type? -- grub2 comments

2012-09-14 Thread felix
It also is a handy reference if I get in a gentoo corner, like setting up X or KVM. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

2012-09-14 Thread felix
des the boot config so I can add an entry for the gentoo install. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

2012-09-14 Thread felix
s message. linux32 > is a symlink to setarch so you can read the setarch manpage if you're > curious as to why it is necessary. Still, unless you have a particular > reason not to avoid using an amd64 stage tarball, I'd suggest starting > over with one. Nope, just ignorance

Re: [gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

2012-09-14 Thread felix
handbook, not amd64, because it's not amd. But if amd64 should be used for all 64 bit installs, that's probably my problem. As for the exact stage3 tarball, the ftp choice was "gentoo/releases/x86/current-stage3". This was about Sep 10. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _

[gentoo-user] How do I determine the processor type?

2012-09-14 Thread felix
sors, but the kernel config doesn't have many choices. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found

Re: [gentoo-user] My PC died. What should I try?

2012-08-17 Thread felix
Mouse-to-mouse resuscitation? Unless it's headless. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I&#

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
, in fact hiding the IDE drive so that I had to trace cables to find it. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #49

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
will start small and gradually expand as necessary. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a sol

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
I have long since forgotten from lack of use. I didn't see it in 'man pvcreate' and had other things to do for the time being. I guess LVM is not like a bicycle.. Yes it does. Thanks. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow

Re: [gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
I add new drives. Besides all that, why do you think it's a problem and how do you propose fixing it? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

[gentoo-user] pvcreate won't create pv

2012-06-29 Thread felix
about? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-29 Thread felix
mendation and all the patience :-) -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Ferma

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-29 Thread felix
nfigured EXCEPT sata_mv. I'll report back in a while -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-29 Thread felix
out it. However, the two drives on it are unrecognized. Does this require some specific kernel options or modules or firmware? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
x27;t need it yet. Thanks. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
as reasonable plugged into the mainboard's > SATA ports. Why not use the PCIe slots for SATA to get more speed? I suppose you could just want bulk where speed is not essential, or they could be full -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch

Re: [gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
igure that out. Is it two on the back and three doublt-ports on the front? How well do they work? I suppose must be good enough to recommend it :-) Do you actually have 8 drives connected to one? -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repa

[gentoo-user] Any recommendations for PCI-X SATA cards?

2012-06-23 Thread felix
want is RAID; I will be using LVM to roll my own. But if a RAID card can handle dissimilar drives in a non-RAID fashion, that's fine by me. Running ~amd64. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / f

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread felix
ld have used it, but I don't remember now if it did. Doubt I would have given it a second thought if it had no external power supply. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG =

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-19 Thread felix
> USB2 hub might work? No USB 3 on the motherboard. I tried a USB 3 enclosure but got zero response from Linux when plugging it in. Didn't even show up in /var/log/messages. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repair

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
> > > I have an outboard usb3 docking station that needs the xhci driver. > Do you have that driver enabled? Maybe one of the many rescue/install > CD's will recognize the drive/enclosure combination? Compiled as a module, and not loaded. Hadn't thought of that.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
isk now defaults the start sector to 2048 insyead of 63, presumably for the same reason. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
a server mostly, that doesn't matter, but I'll have to refresh my memory before getting this card. Thanks for the lead. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
h Internal Bare Drive" > > It does bring to mind a question...when I went to put SATAII drives in > a SATA box, I needed to flip a jumper on the drive so that it would > operate at 1.5Gb/s instead of 3Gb/s. Felix, did you follow any > analogous steps for the 4TB drives? I don&#

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
.com/products/ad2u3pci.php Interesting ... Cheap enough to be worth trying. Thanks. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
r? I plugged them into the USB after boot, so it's the kernel. I didn't try booting with them. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 7

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
systems. It's a Tyan S2882 Thunder K8S Pro. Guess I'll google for that. Found a Tyan page for my motherboard. Didn't see any obvious fixes for SATA size. I also don't remember my BIOS version, I'll have to check that. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
> > I do not know. > > Have you updated the BIOS to the latest available version? No, didn't even think about that. I've never upgraded BIOS an any of my systems. It's a Tyan S2882 Thunder K8S Pro. Guess I'll google for that. -- ... _._. ._ ._.

Re: [gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-18 Thread felix
On Mon, Jun 18, 2012 at 02:35:03PM +0800, Bill Kenworthy wrote: > 32bit or 64 bit system? Dual opteron, ~amd64. > Kernel options for large file systems? Yes. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket su

[gentoo-user] Getting around ancient SATA disk size limitations

2012-06-17 Thread felix
nize the 4TB drives properly? I'm not interested in any NAS or other expensive solutions; I'd just as soon buy a cheap modern system and lots of USB 3.0 disk enclosures. But I'd rather not go that route yet. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._.

[gentoo-user] fuse-encfs and decoding single filenames

2012-06-08 Thread felix
fs to decrypt a single filename for me, so I can find out which plaintext files may have been garbled. I can probably find out by trial and error, but a simple command line translation would be nice. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scar

Re: [gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only -- DISK FAILURE

2012-05-15 Thread felix
hints and forgetting about the double reboot. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

Re: [gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only

2012-05-14 Thread felix
ed new inodes as needed, with no practical limit. Yes, but it's been so long since I knew that off the top of my head that it was surprising to see '0' fropm df -i. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket

Re: [gentoo-user] Encfs suddenly read-only

2012-05-14 Thread felix
imes since then, so I don't think either of them had any sudden surprises left. -- ... _._. ._ ._. . _._. ._. ___ .__ ._. . .__. ._ .. ._. Felix Finch: scarecrow repairman & rocket surgeon / fe...@crowfix.com GPG = E987 4493 C860 246C 3B1E 6477 7838 76E9 182E 8151 ITAR license #4933 I've found a solution to Fermat's Last Theorem but I see I've run out of room o

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