Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list and PGP/MIME

2008-05-29 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
On Fri, 30 May 2008 00:11:51 +0100 Robert Bridge <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Fri, 30 May 2008 02:05:42 +0300 > Daniel Iliev <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > On Thu, 29 May 2008 08:38:27 + (UTC) > > [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > > > W. Canis wrote: > > > > OK, I can't bring myself a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Did I just get hacked???

2007-02-11 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
Hi Grant, personally (but this is by far only ONE possible setup for your task) I'd advise you to connect eth0 to wan through a box set up as a bridge (try brctl). If that box has a good wireless card and good drivers (this mostly means "if that box isn't running Windows") you can also put that wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Recommendation

2007-02-21 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 I dont know about your X Server (there are some great guides out there - don't despair, it never worked for me in the first run either) but I think I have a clue to whats with you network card: The LiveCD has a kernel with all the drivers enabled as

[gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hy everybody, can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild? Let me clarify: I want a few packages to not be merged under / directly but rather to be located under /somethi

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
a Doll schrieb: > Would ROOT="" in the emerge command work? > > --Joshua Doll > > > Paul Sebastian Ziegler wrote: > Hy everybody, > > can you please tell me if there is some way to set the install directory > of an ebuild globally without changing the ebuild? &

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 > As far as I know there is no way to change the prefix via portage, since its > all hardcoded (kinda makes me wonder why this was never added as a feature > tho). Makes me wonder, too. I'm starting to think about writing a patch. It should be s

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-01 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
> Whats the purpose of this? To create a very clear directory structure for a small binary Linux distribution I am planning to build using Gentoo and Portage. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Setting installation directories globally

2007-05-02 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA512 Hi, thank you all for your very clear and thus helpful statements. I am going to reconsider my plans. Maybe there are better structures. Or maybe I'll simply keep the gentoo-style structures and place some folders with symlinks under root. Anyways

Re: [gentoo-user] Help me reboot X

2007-06-03 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
> Can somebody help me stop and restart X? I'm using kdm for login. Just in case your X-Server is still responding AT ALL you can always try hitting Ctrl+Alt+Backspace to kill it. This will work up to a certain level of "hanging". Then simply restart it by typing "startx". Otherwise ssh into yo

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet connection sharing

2006-06-11 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
Hi, maybe it would be easier to buy a PCMCIA-based wireless card. This would eliminate the need for cabeling the laptop down. I own several and even the cheap ones that come at 17 € have good reach and support WPA (sometimes even WPA2). Just a suggestion. HTH Paul 2006-06-11 (日) の 12:03 -0700 に

Re: [gentoo-user] Internet connection sharing

2006-06-11 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
Hi, as far as I know getting her online shouldn't be a problem then. All the cards you can buy will probably ship with drivers for Windows XP so you'll get it running very fast. Afterwards you can just configure her laptop to access the wireless router you connect to with your workstation without

Re: [gentoo-user] Exluding some apps from emerge --update world

2006-07-30 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
Alex Fortwinder wrote: > Hi list, > > I's like to update my system, however, I'd like to keep some of the packages > as they are (X, firefox, kernel, etc) > How do I go about it before i run emerge --update --deep --newuse world? > Thanks in advance, > Alex Hi, I'm not sure if I missed somethi

Re: [gentoo-user] Should we NEVER do an ``emerge -u world''?

2006-09-27 Thread Paul Sebastian Ziegler
If the problem is that your device is not mounted automatically you can simply try mount /dev/sda1 /mnt/whatever with the appropriate device and folder as root. Apart from that you could check /etc/fstab for the "auto"-argument. Or if this doesn't work you can check dmesg to see what happens to y