Re: [gentoo-user] never used to have to modprobe loop

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 20:10 +0200, Richard Fish wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > >One reason may be cause I'm on a fully udev system now. > > > > > > > > That doesn't matter, if you have RC_DEVICE_TARBALL=yes in > /etc/conf.d/rc. What this does is cause the system to archive all of > the device

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

* Mark Knecht ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > I think there is no difference in size between any of these distros > really. KDE is the size of KDE. Gnome is the size of Gnome. > Differences are pretty small compared to the overall size of things. > > The first step would be to mount /usr/portage o

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

* W.Kenworthy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > Gentoo is not designed to save space, or rather isnt worried about space > is a better way to describe it. Well, I can understand this. With modern machines who exactly is using the kind of drive I am right now? Yesterday in the local Circuit City I not

[gentoo-user] Which emulators for DOS+Win3.1 games?

Going through some old backup CDs, I found a few obscure DOS games and Chessmaster 3000 (I still have the original install floppies!). I don't want to have to dual-boot or dedicate a machine to them. What are the recommended emulators to use under Gentoo? The DOS games probably bang away direc

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Logs & HostnameLookup Off

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > I've set hostnamelookup off in the apache config but for some reason, > it's still resolving the hostnames. > > How/why is this? Does anyone know? Did you restart Apache after making the change? -- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

On 6/14/05, cothrige <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Well, I have to say that just for one day on this old Pentium3 I am > very impressed. I was a bit intimidated but I do like the final > product. I had wanted to install from sources rather than binary > packages as I had to but without a high spe

Re: [gentoo-user] email sending problem

On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, askar ... wrote: > --- Session Transcript --- > Parsing Message > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: sdfadfad > Message-ID: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > MX-record resolution of [eu-bomca.org ] in progress > (DNS Server: 85.115.195.3

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

Mark Knecht wrote: > > My one wish, for the number of times I've done this, is that by > definition the LiveCD kernel is good enough to boot the machine so I > wish that kernel was installed and the Live CD was gone before I > started worrying about choosing kernel options and booting the machine

Re: [gentoo-user] grub still broke

maxim wexler wrote: > well, it built the .94 version, the one I already > have. All the while interspersing yellow-flagged > warnings about upgrading to a version that uses > tool-chain functions. Is that the one I need? How do I > tell it to build the .96? I've run merge --sync a > couple of time

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > On 6/15/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > Hi, > > >I'm not at all clear from reading man dd whether it will work for > > > drives that are not the same size? For instance my current working > > > drive

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

On Tue, 2005-06-14 at 22:59 -0500, cothrige wrote: > * W.Kenworthy ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > Gentoo is not designed to save space, or rather isnt worried about space > > is a better way to describe it. > > Well, I can understand this. With modern machines who exactly is > using the kind of d

Re: [gentoo-user] installation failure (libgpg-error-1.0-r1 failed during emerge --emptytree)

Allan Gottlieb wrote: > I am installing 2005.0 onto an empty partition. The bootstrap from > stage 1 to stage 2 went fine, but > emerge --emptytree system > failed as shown below. > > Thanks in advance for any help. > > allan > > emerge (37 of 173) dev-libs/libgpg-error-1.0-r1 to /

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

Ow Mun Heng wrote: > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > >>On 6/15/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >> >>>Mark Knecht wrote: >>> Hi, I'm not at all clear from reading man dd whether it will work for drives that are not the same size? For instance my curr

Re: [gentoo-user] Apache Logs & HostnameLookup Off

On Thu, 2005-06-16 at 01:13 -0400, A. Khattri wrote: > On Wed, 15 Jun 2005, Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > > I've set hostnamelookup off in the apache config but for some reason, > > it's still resolving the hostnames. > > > > How/why is this? Does anyone know? > > Did you restart Apache after making the

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 22:21 -0700, Zac Medico wrote: > Ow Mun Heng wrote: > > On Wed, 2005-06-15 at 18:57 -0700, Mark Knecht wrote: > > > >>On 6/15/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> > >>>Mark Knecht wrote: > >>> > Hi, > I'm not at all clear from reading man dd whether it wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

On 6/15/05, Zac Medico <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > > > My one wish, for the number of times I've done this, is that by > > definition the LiveCD kernel is good enough to boot the machine so I > > wish that kernel was installed and the Live CD was gone before I > > started wo

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

* On Tue Jun-14-2005 at 08:08:29 PM -0500, cothrige said: > I recently decided to test out an installation of Gentoo using the > Universal installation disc and the packages cd as I do not have a > high speed internet connection. > > I used a somewhat older machine, 450Mhz > Pentium III with 128M

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

Mark Knecht wrote: >>>That said I use openoffice-bin and revdep-rebuild always complains. >> >>With the latest version of revdep-rebuild (you need to unmask the latest >>gentoolkit) you can add SEARCH_DIRS_MASK="/opt/OpenOffice.org" to make.conf >>and it won't complain anymore. > > > But doesn'

Re: [gentoo-user] cloning drivers that are not the same size

Ow Mun Heng wrote: > Normally when I want to populate a new dir structure (which is empty to > begin with) I do > > instead of issuing the command > cp -a /some/area/mp3 /other/area/mp3-store > > use > > tar lcf - . | (cd /other/area/mp3-store; tar -xpvf - ) > tar lcf - /path/to/file | (

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > But your mention of bway.net reminds me of something I wanted to ask > you-- are you in NYC? Yes I am - Im assuming you no longer are - where are you now ? > I was a bway.net customer before I left New York, > so it made me wonder. I found them a great

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome-config question

Hi, On 14/Jun/05, Tres Melton wrote: > I'm trying to port plextor-tools.ebuild from ~x86 to ~amd64 and have > encountered a problem. The Makefile sets > > CFLAGS=`gnome-config --cflags applets` $(SCFLAGS) > > but "gnome-config --cflags applets" returns "Unknown library `applets'" > even t

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing output of cron jobs

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > Thanks to your help, and a slightly revised version of Neil's script > (thanks, Neil!), it seems to be working. I would also like to thank the > author (scottro?) or authors of the Quick-N-Dirty guides found at > http://www.qnd-guides.net/ , whose Q-n-D

Re: [gentoo-user] Glsa-check and binutils-- how to stop the madness?

On Tue, 14 Jun 2005, Holly Bostick wrote: > I've been running a little scriptlet to test whether I could get mail > sent to my ISP inbox. The full script runs esync and glsa-check, but > naturally I didn't want to sync 700 times, so I just ran the glsa-check > section. Is this script "glcu" ? ;-)

Re: [gentoo-user] Disk usage?

Mark Knecht wrote: >>>My one wish, for the number of times I've done this, is that by >>>definition the LiveCD kernel is good enough to boot the machine so I >>>wish that kernel was installed and the Live CD was gone before I >>>started worrying about choosing kernel options and booting the machine

[gentoo-user] Can not login via GDM

I have several desktops installed -Gnome, KDE and xfce. Whaen I try to logon via GDM as a normal user, the Xsession script always gets the token "visible-stats" as a parameter instead of the requested session name. Configuration: 1. Dual P4 + 512M 2. Xorg 6.8.2 3. kernel: 2.6.11-gentoo-r11 4. GDM

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