Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It was never hidden and has always been available.
Not sure I understand that comment. Or rather I am sure I do not.
>The commands, excepting lshw, have been
> available since the 1970s. And lots of system inventory scripts ar
darren kirby <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I would like to do this thing right, so if you (anybody!) has ideas, advice,
> requests etc please try it out and let's talk. Am I missing anything that
> should be printed?
Thanks for the effort. It looks promising. I've downloaded but not
tried ye
Bob Sanders <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Sorry. The last one I worked with was -
Thanks... I guess thats probably about par for the course.. hehe
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I want to influence how vim is compiled. I'm told I need a compile
option called: xterm_clipboard. How do I tell emerge to enable that
at compile time?
I've been told its done with USE flags but it still isn't clear to mw
how the details work
I'm still not sure what emerge output really means
"Michael Kintzios" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Of course all this and much more is well documented in the Gentoo guide:
> http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=2&chap=2
Thanks for the comments. But don't be too quick about saying its all
well explained in the manual. I c
This thread had been very educational for me, I'd always felt kind of
swamped by the whole use flag setup. I feel like I learned a lot
here.
Thanks for your efforts posters. I think I'll scrap my vim-cvs built
from source that I quickly compiled in the middle of all this to get a
decent middle m
Robert Persson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The trouble is that I have a bookmark file with several hundred entries. wget
> is supposed to be fairly good at extracting urls from text files, but it
> couldn't handle this particular file.
There is a program in portage called `urlview'. I haven'
Anyone have experience with getting write to work on an external
usb drive attached to gentoo box. Read/write from a windows xp box.
I have the usb drive viewable from windowsXP thru network places. I
can navigate all thru it but cannot write to it.
Settings in /etc/samba/smb.con look like:
Trenton Adams <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi everyone,
>
> There's one thing that has kind of been a little annoying since I started
> using gentoo a few months ago. That's the fact that when you open multiple
> bash logins, only the history of the last one logged out actually gets
> saved. No
I've unmerged several kde packages from what was originally probably a
full kde install. Now on starx the startkde command cannot be found.
I hate to reinstall everthing I unmerged just to find this command.
These are the candidates from emerge.log
1132029646: *** emerge --verbose unmerge kde
Harry wrote:
> . . . . . . Now on starx the startkde command cannot be found.
Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> kdebase, I believe
Sorry folks this was something of a false alarm or at least the wrong
question. It wasn't really missing (startkde) but whatever package
puts that bin
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 20:27:28 -0600
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I've unmerged several kde packages from what was originally probably a
>> full kde install. Now on starx the startkde command cannot be found.
>
> [EMAIL P
Nick Rout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The point being that when you upgrade kde the environment variable
> may not be reset until you re-read those files (which I think
> happens if you run env-update).
Haa that sounds like a very likely suspect and also a command I'd
completely forgotten. I h
"Walter Dnes" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sun, Dec 04, 2005 at 12:28:03PM -0600, Harry Putnam wrote
>
>> Once more for clarity: I can access them from windows xp and view
>> contents but cannot write to them.
>
> Let's see if I have this right
I'm installing a new HDD on an older (in P4 terms) P4 2.0 GB.
On bootup I see it noticed in dmesg or but doesn't get an IRQ. (See
snippet from dmesg) And once booted up, fdisk doesn't know about it.
I pulled out the ribbon to two cd drives and connected This new drive
by itself as master with no
Cláudio Henrique <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> try these to start:
> kdeenablefinal
> kdexdeltas
Explanation?
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I've been tinkering around with installing a new hdd for the last 1/2 hr
or so, suddenly on shutdown I hear 3 beeps come from the computer I'm
working on. Attempts to reboot bring 3 1 second beeps now too.
One by one, I've disconnected each drive, beginning with the one I've
been tinkering wi
Bill Roberts <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Try disconnecting the atapi cdrw temporarily. Can fdisk see it then??
I had tried that too. And no it didn't make a difference. I can't
post dmesg from that since something worse has happened. Spelled out
in thread:
Subject: Yikes, what have I don
I'm about to install gentoo on an athlon64. Is there enough 64 bit
software and other good reasons to use the 64 bit version?
Although a long time linux user, I'm not particularly skilled at
dealing with problems (a slow learning or just thick headed I guess).
But have cross posted this to hear
Jerry Turba <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> The websites of the bios makers will have the meaning of their beep
> codes. There were only 3 and now 2 bios makers I believe.
>
> I seem to remember vaguely that 3 beeps indicates ram or video card
> problem. Did you check that they are in their slots
Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tuesday 06 December 2005 09:33 pm, a tiny voice compelled Harry
> Putnam to write:
>> I've been tinkering around with installing a new hdd for the last
>> 1/2 hr or so, suddenly on shutdown I hear 3 beeps come from t
It turned out to be unrelated to memory. Just as I posted it had to
do with what I last had in my hand. Apparently plugging one of the
IDE ribbons pulled out another tiny plug. I can't tell from the
terrible little quick reference that comes with that intel board what
the heck it was. It appear
Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Where is it posted?
Gack, that was dumb
http://www.jtan.com/~reader/exp/web_ready/dispimg.cgi
> Did plugging this back in end up fixing the problem?
>
yup
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Joe Menola <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> I've posted a picture with 2 arrows. A red one showing the memory
>> cards to orient the viewer and a green one indicating where this tiny
>> plug is. My grandson did the honors holding back the extra junk.
>
> Most likely your cpu fan. USB errors wont sto
Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It looks like his email app thinks it's 1/7/05
> --
> Regards, Ernie
No it was my OS app. I'd kept up this thread from a nearby winxp
machine when my gentoo box crashed... Now fixed I think... Sorry.
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Jarry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> Date: 7.1.2005 20:11 <= !
>
> And I wonder, why your mail is always deep back in my mail folder...
> :-)
Egad, I've been posting from a winxp machine since my gentoo box was
down. Sorry about that n
EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Wed, 07 Dec 2005 08:30:10 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I'm about to install gentoo on an athlon64. Is there enough 64 bit
>> software and other good reasons to use the 64 bit version?
>
> Almost everything has 64 bit versions, and t
I'm adding a 300GB hdd to a older P4 with intel D850MV mobo
Running updated box as of 2 days ago. On bios inspection, this drive
appears to be properly recognized, size etc.
On bootup the dmesg record shows it being seen and recognized
(hdc in this output). You may notice it is already partitio
Richard Fish <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> When booted up under gentoo, fdisk does not see this disk and complains
>> of not being able to open /dev/hdc/ There is no /dev/hdc. The
>> symlink was not created. Further the name gentoo uses of the form:
>>
>> ls -l /dev/hdb lrw [...] /dev/hdb ->
Ernie Schroder <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It's fixed if you're still on the windblows box. It wasn't a problem for me
> because kmail threads pretty well but it might have been tough for others.
>
Any good reader should handle it... no? I've used emacs news mail
reader gnus for so long I don'
I'm in the process of installing from scratch and noticed that qpkg is
missing from gentoolkit. A few portage updates back it was still
there but installed onder /opt I think it was.
gentoolkit still shows the manpage but not the tool.
Lacking qpkg, I'm using equery like:
equery -C list -i
It
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 12:13:47 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> I'm in the process of installing from scratch and noticed that qpkg is
>> missing from gentoolkit. A few portage updates back it was still
>> there but
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Check these two places:
>
>> /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg
>> /usr/share/doc/gentoolkit-0.2.0-r3/qpkg
Yup, /usr/lib/gentoolkit/bin/qpkg
I missed it in the `equery files gentoolkit' output
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I want to use a global USE flag of -sasl in make.conf.
However when I use it there it has no effect on emerges of things that
it should effect:
I don't have actual output from the commands below because I'm in the
throws of an install from scratch and have only ftp for remote access
so far.
cat
"pat" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Hi,
>
> I have a new notebook and trying to setup my Gentoo. I've followed the Gentoo
> handbook and setup the network as DHCP.
>
> But during the boot I have error like this:
> eth0 does not exist
>
> I have to missed something but I have no idea :-(
>
> Could
Installing from scratch and getting confused about where the kernel
framebuffer stuff is.
Quoting from the handbook here:
---
First of all you need to know what type of framebuffer device you're
using. If you use a Gentoo patched kernel tree (such as
gentoo-sources) you will have had the possibil
"Brett I. Holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> It's under device drivers->graphic support. You select Support for
> framebuffer. Select it and you get a VESA VGA graphics support
> option in the list which has a sub item with VESA driver type
> Hit enter there and you can select vesa or v
Installing from scratch, using networked install, I've built two
kernels from 2.6.14 sources, each time the mods I'd listed autoload
fail to be loaded and are apparently never built.
I resorted to usign genkernel since in the past that has always
provided a working kernel and initrd. And sufficie
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Thu, 08 Dec 2005 19:54:59 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> Using it on the emerge command line has the desired effect. That is,
>> USE="-sasl" emerge -v -p sendmail shows `-sasl' as expected.
>>
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Fri, 09 Dec 2005 04:24:26 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>
>> Or alternatively it seems one could just use /proc/config.gz as
>> /usr/src/linux/.config and run it manually. Except I'm at a loss as
>> to how an i
Dale <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Try this one:
>
>> < > Intel(R) PRO/100+ support
>
>
> You can search if you know the name. Just hit the "/" key then type in
> the name of the module. Someone posted that the other day. They
> screwed up. I wore out the / key. LOL
Hey that is a handy bit..
I'll probably need the asbestos drawers here shortly:
I've burned up several hours here with a grindingly slow compile of
kde. It is an older machine ( a few years) but is a P4 2Ghz and 500MB
ram. Is there an alternative to this? I mean aside from using a
lighter, faster compiling, X setup.
I've
Gerhard Hoogterp <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> While this is true and one of the things that makes gentoo gentoo, there are
> already binary packages in portage. mozilla-bin, openoffice-bin. Mostly big
> packages which take some time to compile. So the idea of having a
> pre-compiled KDE isn't
Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> will, have patience my son :P.
I usually prefer `grasshopper' and you will need a heavy fake
oriental accent : )
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Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> sure, why are you emerge-ing the full kde?
>
> 1) `emerge kdebase`
> 2) ???
> 3) Profit!
First off, this is an install from scratch.
While your comment sounds smart, this really only puts off doing it
later. And the mindnumbing confusion of what parts o
Daniel da Veiga <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> He should have watched me compiling Apache, PHP, MySQL and a lot of
> other packages on my Pentium 100 with 48MB of RAM, what other distro
More `TOSS'... hehe
He should of watched me compile emacs on a vic 20 Oh wait .. I'm
`he' and now that I t
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Those binary packages are supplied by upstream, it's not the same as the
> Gentoo devs providing compiled packages, although they do in the GRP
> collections.
>
> It's no big deal upgrading KDE anyway. Set PORTAGE_NICENESS to a suitable
> value and you c
Chris White <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Saturday 10 December 2005 10:47, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> First off, this is an install from scratch.
>>
>> While your comment sounds smart, this really only puts off doing it
>> later.
>
> ^^ huh?
>
>>
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Then download a GRP CD, do a stage 3 install then install, X, KDE etc.
> from the GRP CD. That's how I did it and had a full working system in
> just over and hour. I was able to set my USE flags, sysnc portage and
> re-emerge everything that needed it
I've had an `emerge -v kde' running for hours and this morning I find
it has errored out while compiling kdenetwork. I can't really figure
out what this error might mean but it appears it might be somekind of
fs problem in /tmp. I've inlined a hefty snipped from the tail of
output below but first
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> kde-base/kde is a meta package, it pulls in all the monolithic KDE
> builds. If you are concerned about installation compile times, you should
> not be trying to build the whole of KDE. Do you really need all of
> kdegames, kdeedu and kdetoys to get your
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Sat, 10 Dec 2005 08:04:51 -0600, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
>> What should permissions on /tmp look like in a normal system?
>> I see tmp is chmod 755 but shouldn't it be something like 1777?
>
> It should, but it makes
This is really a kde question but I'm hoping other gentoo users will
know that to do here since it seems likely any kde users will have
seen this too.
I've apparently set something so that visited links sort of disappear.
That is, the color they turn almost matches the background.
The settings f
Neil Bothwick wrote:
[...] .. snipped background color stuff..thanks
>> Another thing hard to find documentation for is how to make
>> konqueror start on a home page rather than just blank
>
> Settings -> Configure Konqueror -> Behaviour -> Home URL.
Yeah, I know how to set the homepage of cour
I've started an update after a couple of mnths of not keeping updated.
After emerge sync and installing latest portage I run:
emerge -v uDp world
I see this in the output... only showing a couple of dozens of lines
like this (wrapped for mail):
[blocks B ] <=x11-base/xorg-x11-6.9 (is blocking
Setup:
Athlon64 running 32bit Gentoo
Running these use flags in make.conf:
[...]
ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
USE="samba smb mysql symlinks kde qt dvd alsa cdr
emacs xinerama mbox apache2 hal logrotate objc
gcj sasl vmmouse wacom radeon tga vesa vga via
vmware -ipv6 -imap -maildir -gnome"
I'm
"James Ausmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 16 May 2006 11:11:18 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > Setup:
> > Athlon64 running 32bit Gentoo
> >
> > Running these use flags in make.conf:
> > [...]
> > ACCEPT_KEYWORDS
"James Ausmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
[...]
> OK, what does the output of gcc-config -l (ell) show you - what
> version of gcc is currently being used? Did gcc get updated prior to
> the glibc update attempt? If so, was env-update && source /etc/profile
> run after the gcc update?
It output
I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE
flag still be ~x86? or something else?
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"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 16 May 2006 12:44:37 -0500, Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > So it appears then that something is wrong with this update process.
> > emerge -v -uDp gcc doesn't want to update the current gcc whi
John Jolet <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> >I'm running 32bit gentoo on an amd athlon64 would the architeture USE
> >flag still be ~x86? or something else?
> >
> >
> k8
> --
Sorry to be a pest on this, but I was u
Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On Tue, May 09, 2006 at 09:26:30PM +0200, Penguin Lover Jure Varlec squawked:
> > I use yakuake. It's the the best drop-down terminal I've ever used, and I
> > believe I tried almost all of them (there really aren't many). Off the top
> > of
> > my head
[EMAIL PROTECTED] writes:
> I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on a
> miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its ultra-accessibility.
> Anywhere you can just hit your key combination and *pop* there's trusty old
> YaKuake. It supports multiple console tabs
"James Ausmus" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> OK, to cut short the confusion, Harry, your march setting in your
> CFLAGS should be k8, and the ACCEPT_KEYWORDS should be either x86, or
> ~x86, depending on if you want to run stable.
Thank you James.
I was beginning to wonder if those settings were
Using vmware on winxp and I see gentoo is not listed as a supported OS
like Suse is.
I'm currently running Suse from vmware for that reason. I did try to
get gentoo running there sometime ago and don't remember what the
problems were now.
I'm wondering if anyone here is running gentoo inside v
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 16 May 2006 15:25:58 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> > > I love YaKuake. It's better than Kuake in that it's just Konsole on
> > > a miniblinds widget. It's superior because of its
> > > u
"Arturo 'Buanzo' Busleiman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Harry Putnam wrote:
> > I'm wondering if anyone here is running gentoo inside vmware on winxp
> > and if they might coach me on that.
>
> I usually set it to other linux 2.6 kernel
Steven Susbauer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> I am writing this from Gentoo running in VMware workstation on Windows
> Server 2003. It works just fine, just install it like a normal install
> except you need to use lspci to find what hardware vmware is showing
> Gentoo, and compile accordingly. I
Neil Bothwick <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> On 16 May 2006 16:35:23 -0500, Harry Putnam wrote:
>
> > > If you only use KDE, you may as well define all your key bindings in
> > > KHotkeys.
> >
> > Maybe you haven't noticed that KHotkeys is painfully
Taking the opportunity of a major update to adjust CFLAGS in
/etc/make.conf and I found something that looks like it might be a
typo of mine.
CFLAGS="-Os -march=athlon-xp -pipe"
Does the `O' (uppercase oh) have an `s' component?
gcc man says the `O' is to set levels and I think this may be su
JimD <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Is there a good spam filter out there? One that is not a pain to setup
> and use?
>
> My current setup is postfix, procmail and bogofilter. Maybe I haven't
> trained bogofilter enough or something. After three weeks, I have yet
> to have one spam marked as sp
"Richard Fish" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> BTW, I measured the performance differences for the things I care
> about (compression, media encoding, and dm-crypt encryption), and
> ended up choosing -Os for my Core Duo system. As James says, some
> things run faster, other things run slower. And
Sorry to pester with this but I've worn out my google fingers and
gmane search with this one.
I'm looking for a developmental package for linux that is an image
processor and web gallery sort of tool. It was mentioned in a thread
I started here sometime ago but cannot be dredged up... at least no
Gian Domeni Calgeer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
>> > Or does anyone know if any of the Live CDs `knoppix' style have this
>> > tool on board?
>>
>> ntfs3g is *VERY* *VERY* new. I don't think that a "knoppix style"
>> CD already has it. But I *bet*, that they'll have it quite soon.
>
> Hi
>
> On
>
Harry Putnam <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:
> Alexander, Do you know if the system described above is what ntfs-g3
> does too?
One could never determine something that basic from the man page
supplied with it. After reading it, I still know nothing about how it
works.
With a disk m
Installing gentoo as guest into vbox vm on solaris-11 (openindiana)
HOST
gentoo-17
VBox 5.2.6
Kernel 4.15.0
My first boot resulted in resulted in a kernel panic... not able to
mount root.
I checked my /etc/fstab trying to make sure I didn't make a stupid
mistake there... it appear to be sound. (I
Setup:
Installing gentoo-17 as guest in Vbox vm on solaris-11 HOST
(openindiana (powered by Illumos))
VBox 5.6.2
Kernel-4.15.0
grub2
I'm a litte confused about how to enable a high res framebuffer
console.
At gentoo pages:
https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Xorg/Guide#Kerne
80x24 writes:
> On Wed, Jan 31, 2018 at 8:44 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Installing gentoo as guest into vbox vm on solaris-11 (openindiana)
>> HOST
>> gentoo-17
>> VBox 5.2.6
>> Kernel 4.15.0
>>
>> My first boot resulted in resulted in a kernel pan
David Haller writes:
[...]
>>I've never used genkernel, but from what I understand it builds
>>everything + the kitchen sink.. so should get the right drivers
>>hopefully.
>
> Actually no, you can quite easily configure it to just the tedious
> work.
First, thanks for the cogent and helpful po
Alexander Kapshuk writes:
[...]
>> Can anyone tell me what they used to allow gentoo in vbox to boot?
>>
>>
>>
> Did you enable the recommended kernel config options as suggested here [1]?
> [1] https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/VirtualBox
I did go thru that page and `think' I checked them off but I
I've just completed getting gentoo booted as guest in vbox vm.
I'm having a peculiar problem. I cannot call `su -' or `su root' and
login as root.
I can still get to root by `ssh root@localhost' having set up
/etc/sshd_config while still chrooted during install.
Still no getting to root by way
Can anyone post a .config for a 3.8.13 kernel that is known to work on
a vbox install of gentoo as guest.
Working on a fresh install but don't have gentoo running anywhere to
rob a .config from.
Maybe a poorly worded question but I seem to recall some advances
where framebuffering is being handled differently than my old way.
It could be typified by the kernel line used in grub.conf like this
one:
kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb3 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap
Or is that still a viab
Harry Putnam writes:
> It could be typified by the kernel line used in grub.conf like this
> one:
>
> kernel /vmlinuz root=/dev/sdb3 vga=0x31A video=vesafb:mtrr,ywrap
I should have included this information:
Kernel is v. 3.8.13, and it is a gentoo install as guest on a windows7
Canek Peláez Valdés writes:
> First:
>
> /usr/src/linux/Documentation/fb/uvesafb.txt
>
> Second: what card do you use?
I haven't taken care of 'First' yet but here is the answer to
'second': Its a virtual box install of gentoo as guest on win7.
Apparently this is what the vm supplies for video
Working on a new install of gentoo as vm (vbox) guest on win7.
Just checking if my partial install is out of date already with. And
if a USE change was complicating things.
That change was to add -selinux. I added that to make.conf after
seeing a selinux pkg flash by when I installed ... I thin
Canek Peláez Valdés writes:
>>>=sys-libs/libselinux-2.1.13-r4 static-libs
>
> What profile does your installation have? If I'm not mistaken, only
> the hardened profiles set USE="selinux" by default.
>
Yes, sorry I caught that shortly after posting... In the 'quick
install' manual at the part wh
No doubt suffering from overdose of pilot error here but on a new (in
progress) install of gentoo as guest in vbox. I ran the command
emerge -vp dev-vcs/git and come up with 194 pkgs that need to be
installed.
Well, that seems just a wee bit excessive for an install just getting
underway.. no X
I was off gentoo for a few mnths... apparently something has changed
in the naming of the network devices.
So far I've read several accounts of it... but the install handbook
has apparently not been brought up to date.
Doing a fresh install, and following the contents of the manual
concerning con
walt writes:
> On 07/29/2013 06:29 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> Can anyone post a .config for a 3.8.13 kernel that is known to work on
>> a vbox install of gentoo as guest.
>>
>> Working on a fresh install but don't have gentoo running anywhere to
>> rob a .c
Mick writes:
> On Saturday 03 Aug 2013 06:52:46 Harry Putnam wrote:
>> I was off gentoo for a few mnths... apparently something has changed
>> in the naming of the network devices.
>>
>> So far I've read several accounts of it... but the install handbook
>>
Neil Bothwick writes:
> On Sat, 3 Aug 2013 11:51:31 +0100, Mick wrote:
>
>> > Can someone point me to concise documentation about how this new setup
>> > is supposed to work?
>>
>> In /etc/conf.d/net you should replace the previously named eth0
>> directives to your new NIC name, e.g. instead
Nikos Chantziaras writes:
> On 03/08/13 06:03, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> No doubt suffering from overdose of pilot error here but on a new (in
>> progress) install of gentoo as guest in vbox. I ran the command
>>
>> emerge -vp dev-vcs/git and come up with 194 pkgs t
Stroller writes:
> On 3 August 2013, at 04:03, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> ...
>> emerge -vp dev-vcs/git and come up with 194 pkgs that need to be
>> installed.
>> ...
>>
>> So I imagine I've done something thats causing that massive of a list
>> of
Wang Xuerui writes:
> 2013/8/3 Harry Putnam :
>> Hehe, alright, now we're talking that reduced dependancies to just
>> 1 lonesome cpio.
>>
>> Now, is it reasonable to install that way? Will I run into some
>> horrible unsightly mess using git, when inst
Michael Orlitzky writes:
> On 08/02/2013 08:22 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>>
>> Now, is it reasonable to install that way? Will I run into some
>> horrible unsightly mess using git, when installed this way.
>>
>
> Without USE=perl, you'll get a surprise i
Nikos Chantziaras writes:
[...]
>> Unless I hear something that would indicate it will be too crippled
>> even for the usage I plan.
>
> You should of course put those USE flags in /etc/portage/package.use
> instead of setting them in the command-line, otherwise they won't be
> remembered.
>
> B
I see an update to udev come up when investigating installing various
other pkgs. eix shows I'm on 197-r3 and the most recent is 206.
Will that be a hefty amount of change... and concomittant amount of
work? Or something a lazy slug can manage?
Pandu Poluan writes:
[...]
> Anyone knows an exhaustive list of USE flags?
Something I find useful on occasion when looking at and dealing with
USE flags is a funky old tool on portage called 'ufed'.
You type 'ufed' at a command line and get an ncurses sort of window.
You don't need to be in X
My gentoo OS is running on Openindiana (solaris) inside oracle's vbox.
It's been left setting for at least 4-5 months maybe a couple more.
After eix-sync, attempting an `emerge vuND world' comes up with so
many blocks, use flag changes and a variety of other bad news in
such proliferation... I'm
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