Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo (multiple OS)

On 12/01/11 07:24, srini srini wrote: Hello, I need some advise here as I am trying to install gentoo along with different other OS'es including windows. As I am new to this field I would need some guidance as to ho to go about and to know the subtleties between LILO and GRUB. Can anyone hel

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:27:06 +, David W Noon wrote: > > Why not mount root read-only, just like in a non-initramfs system? > > > > Any e2fsck commands will be run during the boot runlevel, before > > remounting root rw. > > Unfortunately, the system does not work that way. When running ins

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI DVD copy?

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:53:10 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > I was considering making a copy of this DVD to keep for bug testing in > the future. I'm wondering how to make a copy of a DVD movie at the > command line? If you only want the main title and not all the padding (sorry "extras") mplayer -s

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:49:26 -0600, Dale wrote: > I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot > to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with > the full path: > > /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - > Pilot.mp4 >

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI DVD copy?

On 12/01/2011 09:49 AM, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 15:53:10 -0800, Mark Knecht wrote: > > If you only want the main title and not all the padding (sorry > "extras") > > mplayer -streamdump dvd://1 > It doesn't work for copy protected discs. Also, here it would be: $ mplayer -du

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote: > ... > I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put > a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full > path: > > /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4 > >

[gentoo-user] «-»: [gentoo-user] Gnupg 2 and BZIP2 preference

I did this before - but tried it again - stil the resolut is same no bzip2 support S On 2011-11-30 01:51, Pandu Poluan wrote: On Nov 30, 2011 7:37 AM, "Samuraiii" wrote: > > No luck, gr

Re: [gentoo-user] CLI DVD copy?

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 10:00:51 +0100, Raffaele BELARDI wrote: > > mplayer -streamdump dvd://1 > > > > It doesn't work for copy protected discs. Also, here it would be: If mplayer can play the discs, it should work. > > $ mplayer -dumpstream -dumpfile title.vob dvd://1 > > there's no -streamdum

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

Stroller wrote: On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote: ... I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I have with the full path: /data/Movies/TV_Series/Person of Interest/Season 1, Episode 1 - Pilot.mp4

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

On 12/01/2011 10:34:33 AM, Stroller wrote: > > On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote: > > ... > > I ran into a problem. I been downloading a lot of TV shows. I > forgot to put a sort of important part in the names. This is what I > have with the full path: > > > > /data/Movies/TV_Series/Per

Re: [gentoo-user] installing gentoo (multiple OS)

srini srini wrote: Hello, I need some advise here as I am trying to install gentoo along with different other OS'es including windows. As I am new to this field I would need some guidance as to ho to go about and to know the subtleties between LILO and GRUB. Can anyone help me about this. T

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Drive Mount

On Nov 30, 2011, at 6:41 PM, Mark Knecht wrote: >> > > That's good news. Is that the external USB cable or something inside a > drive case? > > I'd suspect something like a slightly suspect USB controller > somewhere. Changing the cable probably shifted the electrical > parameters on the cable

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Converter parallel-port to USB

Am 29.11.2011 09:26, schrieb Stefan G. Weichinger: >> How about the EIO jet card mentioned in the manual for this device? >> They should be cheap, used. I get one for free from a friend ... hope that works ;-) Stefan

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

On 1 December 2011 10:55, Helmut Jarausch wrote: > On 12/01/2011 10:34:33 AM, Stroller wrote: >> >> On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote: >> > ... >> > I ran into a problem.  I been downloading a lot of TV shows.  I >> forgot to put a sort of important part in the names.  This is what I >> hav

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 08:47:27 +, Neil Bothwick wrote about "Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption": >On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 00:27:06 +, David W Noon wrote: [snip] >> Unfortunately, the system does not work that way. When running >> inside an initramfs, one cannot load executable content fr

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 7:22 AM, James Broadhead wrote: > On 1 December 2011 10:55, Helmut Jarausch > wrote: >> On 12/01/2011 10:34:33 AM, Stroller wrote: >>> >>> On 1 December 2011, at 01:49, Dale wrote: >>> > ... >>> > I ran into a problem.  I been downloading a lot of TV shows.  I >>> forgot t

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:43:01 +, David W Noon wrote: > >I understand that, but not why you need to run e2fsck before the > >switch_root. Is this to do with the way your system is set up? The > >object of the initramfs is only to get the system into a state where / > >can be mounted and switch_ro

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

Neil Bothwick wrote: On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 13:43:01 +, David W Noon wrote: I understand that, but not why you need to run e2fsck before the switch_root. Is this to do with the way your system is set up? The object of the initramfs is only to get the system into a state where / can be mounted a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

On Thu, 01 Dec 2011 08:13:24 -0600, Dale wrote: > >> I need to fsck / before I mount /usr, /var and everything else. > > Now it makes sense, but can't you use busybox fsck? > > > > > > I thought the file system was mounted ro, then the file system checks > done, then remounted rw and boot co

Re: [gentoo-user] Changing names of LOTS of files, adding to them actually.

On Thu, Dec 01, 2011 at 04:42:04AM -0600, Dale wrote: > >> Basically, I need to add the name of the show to the name of the file. > >> They will all be added to the front of the names. They also almost all > >> contain spaces, which means some fancy footwork with the \. > > I see you've rename

[gentoo-user]

Thanks for the reply. @permeakra, I'll also go with GRUB 1 as it allows me to know whats going on on stage1 VBR. The xen is also good, thanks for marking here, I'll set it up for my work laptop ;) @Dale, as you mentioned: " If it is a mix of those, then you need to look into ways to get them to a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:23 PM, David W Noon wrote: > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:39:11 -0500, Michael Mol wrote about "Re: > [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption": > > [snip] >>Stupid question...Would using LZMA and a tarball reduce the size of >>your initeamfs? > > Not really.  I am already using

[gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

Dear All, To be honest, I've never thought that I'm going to say that gnome is fantastic. I was always xfce and KDE user and I never was not able to understand the philosophy of Gnome. But, Gnome3 is amazing! Simple and easy to use. Not to mention that it has eye candy in a good way and doesn't ea

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:51 AM, András Csányi wrote: > Dear All, > > To be honest, I've never thought that I'm going to say that gnome is > fantastic. I was always xfce and KDE user and I never was not able to > understand the philosophy of Gnome. But, Gnome3 is amazing! Simple and > easy to use.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 2

On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 08:58:13PM +0700, Pandu Poluan wrote > On Mon, Nov 21, 2011 at 17:47, wrote: > > > > - >8 snip > > > 3) In the bootloader append line, include "init=/sbin/linuxrc" where > > ?? the file /sbin/linuxrc consists of *AT LEAST*... > > > > #!/sbin/busybox ash > > mount -t

[gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

Corrected "#!/sbin/busybox ash" to "#!/bin/busybox ash" in step 3. The weird part is that my system actually booted and ran fine even with this typo in the script. The usual warnings apply... * this is a beta * use a spare test machine * if you don't follow the instructions correctly, the res

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

On 1 December 2011 20:01, Canek Peláez Valdés wrote: > On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 10:51 AM, András Csányi wrote: >> Dear All, >> >> To be honest, I've never thought that I'm going to say that gnome is >> fantastic. I was always xfce and KDE user and I never was not able to >> understand the philosoph

[gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

I just finished building it on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines, and I'm seeing a very annoying bug in localc on both of them. When I do anything that requires the window to repaint, like scrolling or zooming, the screen doesn't repaint until I start clicking on the spreadsheet. And then the screen r

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

On Thu, 1 Dec 2011 11:41:50 -0500, Michael Mol wrote about Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption: > On Wed, Nov 30, 2011 at 8:23 PM, David W Noon > wrote: > > On Wed, 30 Nov 2011 19:39:11 -0500, Michael Mol wrote about "Re: > > [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption": > > > > [snip] > >>Stup

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

On Thu, Dec 1, 2011 at 5:43 PM, walt wrote: > I just finished building it on my ~x86 and ~amd64 machines, and I'm > seeing a very annoying bug in localc on both of them. > > When I do anything that requires the window to repaint, like scrolling > or zooming, the screen doesn't repaint until I star

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

Am 01.12.2011 19:51, schrieb András Csányi: > I was always xfce and KDE user and I never was not able to > understand the philosophy of Gnome. But, Gnome3 is amazing! Simple and > easy to use. András, pls tell us about your usual use of desktop do you use gentoo for business? Or private use o

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Beta test Gentoo with mdev instead of udev; version 3

On Dec 2, 2011 2:50 AM, "Walter Dnes" wrote: > > Corrected "#!/sbin/busybox ash" to "#!/bin/busybox ash" in step 3. The > weird part is that my system actually booted and ran fine even with this > typo in the script. > Amazingly enough, my system also works. Albeit with two red asterisks during

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Full disk encryption

On Dec 1, 2011 3:32 AM, "David W Noon" wrote: > - >8 snip > > I have a working initramfs layout, but currently it is too large > (>32MiB) for my /boot partition. The problem package is e2fsprogs, as > it requires dynamic linkage and, consequently, a full-sized glibc. > This sucks, so I need

[gentoo-user] Gnome 3.2.2 Block

>From a fresh install, upgrading from Gnome 2.26, I'm trying to install gnome 3.2.2, but getting nowhere fast. I stopped using Gentoo back before slots became common, so maybe I'm missing something as far as that goes. Thanks in advance guys/gals! Jason Weisberger jbdubbspc jbdubbs # emerge -pv

[gentoo-user] Re: Gnome 3.2.2 Block

Correction, Gnome 3.2.1 -- Jason Weisberger jbdu...@gmail.com

Re: [gentoo-user] Anyone using libreoffice 3.5.0.0 yet?

> Can anyone confirm or deny? > > i confirm. apart of these 'painting' issues in localc, observed both lowriter and localc crash during arbitrary pointer movements over menu items. it seems all that misbehavior is related to x11-libs/gtk+:3 after an hour of tries decided to switch back to libreo

Re: [gentoo-user] gnome3 hotkey for searching in overview

On 2 December 2011 00:28, Stefan G. Weichinger wrote: > Am 01.12.2011 19:51, schrieb András Csányi: >> I was always xfce and KDE user and I never was not able to >> understand the philosophy of Gnome. But, Gnome3 is amazing! Simple and >> easy to use. > > András, pls tell us about your usual use o