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Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance
From: Harry Putnam
Date: 2011-07-02 07:22
>Albert Hopkins writes:
>
>> Well, thanks for pointing out the error in my appliance creation script
>> that mistakenly sets up the serial console o
On Friday, July 1 at 19:22 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> Albert Hopkins writes:
[...]
> At the risk of exposing further ignorance on my part, I'm curious what
> it means in fstab where you have:
>
> /.swap none swap sw0 0
>
> At the swap line.
>
> That's anothe
Albert Hopkins writes:
> Well, thanks for pointing out the error in my appliance creation script
> that mistakenly sets up the serial console on non-headless VMs. I've
> fixed the bug and created and uploaded a new image.
My tiny input isn't much... the big thanks goes to you and to James
for t
On Friday, July 1 at 17:44 (-0500), James Wall said:
> Thanks for the appliance image. it has come in handy for trying out
> multiple ideas and setups at once on my machine. Keep up the great
> work Albert! :)
>
You're welcome. I do have other appliances other than the "base"
appliance. For ex
Thanks for the appliance image. it has come in handy for trying out
multiple ideas and setups at once on my machine. Keep up the great
work Albert! :)
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On Friday, July 1 at 14:10 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for
> several yrs with no problems... so didn't really think to look there.
> That's why I asked... didn't know where to look... dumb perhaps but
> just didn't cross my mind.
Harry Putnam writes:
> Albert Hopkins writes:
> > You've never heard of FEATURES (or --jobs)? May want to peruse the
> > man pages a bit. FEATURES is a very fundamental part of portage (man
> > make.conf).
>
> Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for
> several yrs
Albert Hopkins writes:
[...]
> You've never heard of FEATURES (or --jobs)? May want to peruse the man
> pages a bit. FEATURES is a very fundamental part of portage (man
> make.conf).
Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for
several yrs with no problems... so didn't
On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> In the shell where the initial login came up I keep seeing this every
> 5 minutes:
>
> INIT: ld "so" respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes
Oh, you can also do this manually by commenting out the s0 entry
in /etc/inittab.
-a
On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> Albert Hopkins writes:
>
>
> [...]
>
> >
> > Yeah, sorry if I didn't mention before. In the interest of size, I
> > remove the portage tree (and also kernel sources) before creating the
> > image. So in order to do portage-related st
Albert Hopkins writes:
[...]
>
> Yeah, sorry if I didn't mention before. In the interest of size, I
> remove the portage tree (and also kernel sources) before creating the
> image. So in order to do portage-related stuff one must first:
>
> # emerge --sync
[...]
> Should still be usable.
Y
On Friday, July 1 at 11:55 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
> > Oh, I'm referring to the 4GB version. The 10GB version demands a
> > password so couldn't even start on it.
>
> That should not be the case with it requiring a password, or else I
> uploaded the wrong image. Nevertheless, I'll uploa
On Friday, July 1 at 10:36 (-0500), Harry Putnam said:
> Albert Hopkins writes:
>
> > On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
> >
> >> Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it
> >> shortly.
> >
> > Done, uploaded to the same place:
> >
> > http://stars
Harry Putnam writes:
> resolved I kept getting really strange output from emerge. It appeared
> to be the output of something like vmstat or maybe the upper portion
> of `top'. Stuff about user loads and such... right after the first
> few lines of emerge output, and nothing was getting emerged.
Albert Hopkins writes:
> On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said:
>
>> Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it
>> shortly.
>
> Done, uploaded to the same place:
>
> http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist.vmdk.bz2
>
> I also made the image bigger
kashani writes:
> On 6/22/2011 2:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote:
>> If that isn't available maybe someone has a fairly current kernel
>> config that is known to boot on a windows host with guest gentoo.
>>
>
> http://badapple.net/files/gentoo-vbox.config
> Windows 7, vbox 4.0.8, gentoo-sources-2.6.36-
Mark Knecht writes:
> Hi Harry,
>I have an up-to-date Gentoo 64-bit/KDE Virtualbox VM but I haven't
> tested it on a Windows host. I suppose could try that given some time.
>
>I'd have no problem donating a copy if people wanted it and there
> was some public place that we could put it. I
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