Re: [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

2012-08-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 08/29/12 12:42, kwk...@hkbn.net wrote: On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:57:07 +0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It wil

Re: [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

2012-08-28 Thread kwkhui
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 10:57:07 +0800 Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro > for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, > SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It will be > working as a file/media server a

Re: [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

2012-08-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
On 08/29/12 11:35, Michael Mol wrote: On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: Hi all, Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It will be

Re: [gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 10:57 PM, Andrew Lowe wrote: > Hi all, > Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro for an > old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, SP13000, and want > to whack something light onto it. It will be working as a file/media server > a

[gentoo-user] [Offtopic] Lightweight server distro for an old motherboard

2012-08-28 Thread Andrew Lowe
Hi all, Anyone got any suggestions for a lightweight server distro for an old motherboard? I've got one of the VIA mini-ITX boards, SP13000, and want to whack something light onto it. It will be working as a file/media server and will be headless, hence will be fiddled via ssh. Obviously ther

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

2012-08-28 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:04:55 -0500 > Dale wrote: > >> Alan McKinnon wrote: >>> Rule #1 in dealing with odd weird strange computer faults is ALWAYS >>> test with another PSU of at least twice the capacity you think you >>> need. >> +1 I always start with the P/S. Well, unl

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

2012-08-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:43:29 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Alan McKinnon > wrote: > > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:28:31 -0400 > > Michael Mol wrote: > > > >> > Is this a problem with the English language? I thought I knew it > >> > inside- out, upside-down and back-to-f

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

2012-08-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:04:55 -0500 Dale wrote: > Alan McKinnon wrote: > > Rule #1 in dealing with odd weird strange computer faults is ALWAYS > > test with another PSU of at least twice the capacity you think you > > need. > > +1 I always start with the P/S. Well, unless I see something else

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

2012-08-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Wednesday 29 August 2012 01:29:00 Alan McKinnon wrote: > No, not at all. He means (just read the whole mail with a view to > understanding the communication, not finding the grammar faults) That's what I did. I read the words he wrote, several times. Grammar faults? I noticed none. -- Rgds

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

2012-08-28 Thread Dale
Alan McKinnon wrote: > Rule #1 in dealing with odd weird strange computer faults is ALWAYS > test with another PSU of at least twice the capacity you think you need. +1 I always start with the P/S. Well, unless I see something else unrelated letting the smoke out. Even then tho, a bad P/S can

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

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:37 PM, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:28:31 -0400 > Michael Mol wrote: > >> > Is this a problem with the English language? I thought I knew it >> > inside- out, upside-down and back-to-front. I still think so. Yet >> > your account has you tying yourself i

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

2012-08-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Tue, 28 Aug 2012 20:28:31 -0400 Michael Mol wrote: > > Is this a problem with the English language? I thought I knew it > > inside- out, upside-down and back-to-front. I still think so. Yet > > your account has you tying yourself in knots over a known fault. > > Too many uses of the insuffi

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

2012-08-28 Thread Alan McKinnon
On Wed, 29 Aug 2012 01:15:30 +0100 Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2012 21:57:43 Alex Schuster wrote: > > I wrote: > > > Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things > > > will be okay then. > > [...] > > So I had to wait. And when it became available, I wondered if

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

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 8:15 PM, Peter Humphrey wrote: > On Tuesday 28 August 2012 21:57:43 Alex Schuster wrote: >> I wrote: >> > Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will >> > be okay then. >> [...] >> So I had to wait. And when it became available, I wondered if it >> m

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

2012-08-28 Thread Peter Humphrey
On Tuesday 28 August 2012 21:57:43 Alex Schuster wrote: > I wrote: > > Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will > > be okay then. > [...] > So I had to wait. And when it became available, I wondered if it > might be the processor instead that has the problem, so I let the

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

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 5:08 PM, Michael Mol wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Paul Hartman > wrote: >> On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Edward M >> wrote: >>> And if the motherboard is somehow shorting out inside the case >>> http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/307187-30-motherboard-

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

2012-08-28 Thread Michael Mol
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 6:02 PM, Paul Hartman wrote: > On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Edward M wrote: >> And if the motherboard is somehow shorting out inside the case >> http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/307187-30-motherboard-shorting-case > > I completely forget that I had this happen onc

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

2012-08-28 Thread Paul Hartman
On Tue, Aug 28, 2012 at 9:23 AM, Edward M wrote: > And if the motherboard is somehow shorting out inside the case > http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/307187-30-motherboard-shorting-case I completely forget that I had this happen once. The case design was such that part of the motherboard cont

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

2012-08-28 Thread Edward M
On 08/28/2012 01:57 PM, Alex Schuster wrote: So I had to wait. And when it became available, I wondered if it might be the processor instead that has the problem, so I let the PC shop diagnose CPU and board. This took until today, and they confirmed it was the board indeed, not the CPU. Fine, I

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

2012-08-28 Thread Volker Armin Hemmann
Am Dienstag, 28. August 2012, 22:57:43 schrieb Alex Schuster: > I wrote: > > Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will be > > okay then. > > This took longer than expected. The board I wanted (the same I already > have) was not available, I had to order it. Strange, there

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

2012-08-28 Thread Alex Schuster
I wrote: Well, all I can do now is to get a new board and see if things will be okay then. This took longer than expected. The board I wanted (the same I already have) was not available, I had to order it. Strange, there is only one that has the features I want - AMD3+ chipset, four memory b

[gentoo-user] gentoo as iscsi target

2012-08-28 Thread Konstantinos Agouros
Hi, since gentoo-sources is only working by fiddling with the sources of iscsi-target what is the future here? Lio-Stuff is in portage but masked with ** and doesn't build. Is there anyhthing happening in this area? Regards, Konstantin -- Dipl-Inf. Konstantin Agouros aka Elwood Blues. Internet: