Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Cloning a system drive
does this work from hd to external usb disk? 2007/10/7, Brian Litzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:49:11AM -0400, Peter Davoust wrote: This may be a little noobish, and it may have been said, but can't you just install the new drive, partition it identically to the original drive and then... dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb2 so on and so forth until you've got everything copied? Or event just dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb Wouldn't that work? The latter works fine in my experience. I do it regularly. The downside, is that cloning a 750GB drive takes a while as it duplicates everything including unused sectors. Things like clonezilla just copy the used/active sectors. A popular way is to use sfdisk. I do not remember the exact syntax, but a pair of sfdisk commands can transfer the partition information directly between two drives. Then use rsync to move the data across. You may have to run grub setup on the new disk too. -- Brian Litzinger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- dott. ing. beso
Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper
Mark Haney wrote: Nuitari wrote: One of the problems I had with ndiswrapper is that it would just suck 100% of the CPU and literally do nothing. iwlist scan would show nothing. I just tried bcm43xx and it worked, so I never tried to get ndiswrapper back On Sat, 6 Oct 2007, Beso wrote: Okay, I'm game, can you send me notes on how to set up bcm43xx? Or a link to a howto? If that doesn't work I'll muck with ndiswrapper some more. There's a sticky in the forums (thought not obvious due to the name) http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-547687.html -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-amd64] iPod issue
Hi folks, Have you guys tried to run iTunes? Ok, I got gtkPod, but still lacks podcast support and many other stuff. So I needed iTunes @ my linux box and started working: 1 - installed qemu following GentooWiki HowTo 2 - created xp image disk 3 - installed everything including iTunes 4 - plugged my iPod, got its ID from lsusb output 5 - using -usbdevice tried to run iPod under qemu And then... my virtual XP was slow as hell and didn't recognize my iPod =( What can I do now? Please help =) []'s Fernando Boaglio -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-amd64] iPod issue
Fernando Boaglio wrote: Hi folks, Have you guys tried to run iTunes? Ok, I got gtkPod, but still lacks podcast support and many other stuff. So I needed iTunes @ my linux box and started working: 1 - installed qemu following GentooWiki HowTo 2 - created xp image disk 3 - installed everything including iTunes 4 - plugged my iPod, got its ID from lsusb output 5 - using -usbdevice tried to run iPod under qemu And then... my virtual XP was slow as hell and didn't recognize my iPod =( What can I do now? Please help =) []'s Fernando Boaglio Is this a new ipod? I read somewhere (Slashdot maybe?) that the new IPds have some sort of key that keeps any other app from using the ipod except for itunes. -- Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-amd64] iPod issue
Not really... I bought the classic 30gb (5th generation). I wish I could run iTunes anyway =/ On 10/8/07, Mark Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Boaglio wrote: Hi folks, Have you guys tried to run iTunes? Ok, I got gtkPod, but still lacks podcast support and many other stuff. So I needed iTunes @ my linux box and started working: 1 - installed qemu following GentooWiki HowTo 2 - created xp image disk 3 - installed everything including iTunes 4 - plugged my iPod, got its ID from lsusb output 5 - using -usbdevice tried to run iPod under qemu And then... my virtual XP was slow as hell and didn't recognize my iPod =( What can I do now? Please help =) []'s Fernando Boaglio Is this a new ipod? I read somewhere (Slashdot maybe?) that the new IPds have some sort of key that keeps any other app from using the ipod except for itunes. -- Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- []'s Fernando Boaglio -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc 4.2.1 unstable?
On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:09:30 -1000 Joshua Hoblitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, The reason I ask is that there are alot of people (i.e., my users) eager for a version of gcc that supports openmp (like gcc 4.2.1+) and many of the specialized openmp compilers (like onmi) won't build on amd64. gcc-4.2.0 and gcc-4.2.1 both support openmp and are in the normal tree. signature.asc Description: PGP signature
Re: [gentoo-amd64] iPod issue
ituns should work with wine. try it out. and if you want a dual-boot system i've just discovered that you can use xen di paravirtualize windows and linux without any modifications to the base system with the condition that you have one of these processors: http://wiki.xensource.com/xenwiki/HVM_Compatible_Processors of course you have to install a full xen to disk, so you'd have to modify your base linux distro. on the next pc i'll try it out and learn more about how to do it. 2007/10/8, Fernando Boaglio [EMAIL PROTECTED]: Not really... I bought the classic 30gb (5th generation). I wish I could run iTunes anyway =/ On 10/8/07, Mark Haney [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Fernando Boaglio wrote: Hi folks, Have you guys tried to run iTunes? Ok, I got gtkPod, but still lacks podcast support and many other stuff. So I needed iTunes @ my linux box and started working: 1 - installed qemu following GentooWiki HowTo 2 - created xp image disk 3 - installed everything including iTunes 4 - plugged my iPod, got its ID from lsusb output 5 - using -usbdevice tried to run iPod under qemu And then... my virtual XP was slow as hell and didn't recognize my iPod =( What can I do now? Please help =) []'s Fernando Boaglio Is this a new ipod? I read somewhere (Slashdot maybe?) that the new IPds have some sort of key that keeps any other app from using the ipod except for itunes. -- Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- []'s Fernando Boaglio -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- dott. ing. beso
Re: [gentoo-amd64] iPod issue
On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 08:57:10AM -0400, Mark Haney wrote: Is this a new ipod? I read somewhere (Slashdot maybe?) that the new IPds have some sort of key that keeps any other app from using the ipod except for itunes. It's a simple checksum that has already been reverse engineered. I don't know about gtkpod, etc but I know gnupod can handle this as of 0.99.4 (http://www.gnu.org/software/gnupod/CHANGES) -Jack -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Cloning a system drive
On 10/8/07, Brian Litzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:17:40AM +0200, Beso wrote: does this work from hd to external usb disk? dd will not work between disparate media. It is even risky between different (capacity, manufacturer) drives. For my purpose, and I think most anyone in my situation, this is a key issue. I built this AMD64 machine 2-3 years ago. Any drive I put in today is going to have completely different drive geometries. I am buying a drive today and will hopefully get started on this project this evening to tomorrow. I'm leaning the gparted-clonezilla direction but not overly confident at this point. Still have much to learn. Thanks, Mark If by this you mean the latter stategy involving sfdisk/rsync/grub the sfdisk step will mostly not work between disparate media. 2007/10/7, Brian Litzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:49:11AM -0400, Peter Davoust wrote: This may be a little noobish, and it may have been said, but can't you just install the new drive, partition it identically to the original drive and then... dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb2 so on and so forth until you've got everything copied? Or event just dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb Wouldn't that work? The latter works fine in my experience. I do it regularly. The downside, is that cloning a 750GB drive takes a while as it duplicates everything including unused sectors. Things like clonezilla just copy the used/active sectors. A popular way is to use sfdisk. I do not remember the exact syntax, but a pair of sfdisk commands can transfer the partition information directly between two drives. Then use rsync to move the data across. You may have to run grub setup on the new disk too. -- Brian Litzinger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Cloning a system drive
so for backuping a gentoo installation on usb disk is still better to build a stage4 with the script. i need to make a backup working copy of my gentoo notebook box and i have only one disk drive. that is the real problem with using dd or clonezilla... 2007/10/8, Brian Litzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:17:40AM +0200, Beso wrote: does this work from hd to external usb disk? dd will not work between disparate media. It is even risky between different (capacity, manufacturer) drives. If by this you mean the latter stategy involving sfdisk/rsync/grub the sfdisk step will mostly not work between disparate media. 2007/10/7, Brian Litzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:49:11AM -0400, Peter Davoust wrote: This may be a little noobish, and it may have been said, but can't you just install the new drive, partition it identically to the original drive and then... dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb2 so on and so forth until you've got everything copied? Or event just dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb Wouldn't that work? The latter works fine in my experience. I do it regularly. The downside, is that cloning a 750GB drive takes a while as it duplicates everything including unused sectors. Things like clonezilla just copy the used/active sectors. A popular way is to use sfdisk. I do not remember the exact syntax, but a pair of sfdisk commands can transfer the partition information directly between two drives. Then use rsync to move the data across. You may have to run grub setup on the new disk too. -- Brian Litzinger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- dott. ing. beso
Re: [gentoo-amd64] latest kernel and ndiswrapper
Beso wrote: just compile these modules: Well after all is said and done, there was a new ndiswrapper ebuild sitting in portage this morning, so I emerged it and now everything works fine. But, I've got the bcm43xx modules up and running although I've not tried them yet. The reason I mention this is because there was some mention on the forum posts about Gentoo's net scripts and wpa_supplicant that supposedly makes the bcm43xx setup really easy, does anyone know exactly what that means? -- Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
[gentoo-amd64] dmesg output
I must be an idiot. I've been asked several times for dmesg output, so, in my debugging interest I try to provide that, but I only seem to get the USB mouse input message in it like this: evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 18 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 1, Code: 18, Value: 0 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 31 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 1, Code: 31, Value: 1 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 31 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 1, Code: 31, Value: 0 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 34 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 1, Code: 34, Value: 1 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 34 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 1, Code: 34, Value: 0 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 4, Code: 4, Value: 28 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 1, Code: 28, Value: 1 evbug.c: Event. Dev: isa0060/serio0/input0, Type: 0, Code: 0, Value: 0 I've never encountered this before, so how do I get rid of that? Note, I've had to compile my USB as a module so that my synaptics mouse pad on my laptop to work. I know it's related to that, but is there a way to NOT have that in dmesg? -- Recedite, plebes! Gero rem imperialem! Mark Haney Sr. Systems Administrator ERC Broadband (828) 350-2415 Call (866) ERC-7110 for after hours support -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: Cloning a system drive
It may have already been mentioned, but I read about a program called PartImage (www.partimage.org). It looks like more of an automatic backup program, but it does all of the backing up and restoring for you, I think, and I'm pretty sure you can do manual backups. I've never personally used it though. Duncan, I agree, copying the files makes sense, because if you make an image or tar the files, you're copying the files anyway, but it takes time to tar the files or make an image. I'm not sure what the time gained for tar-ing the files is vs. just straight copying them, but I'd imagine it's a pretty small if there is one. Then again, I'm not familiar with how tar works, so I could easily be wrong. -Peter On 10/8/07, Beso [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: so for backuping a gentoo installation on usb disk is still better to build a stage4 with the script. i need to make a backup working copy of my gentoo notebook box and i have only one disk drive. that is the real problem with using dd or clonezilla... 2007/10/8, Brian Litzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 11:17:40AM +0200, Beso wrote: does this work from hd to external usb disk? dd will not work between disparate media. It is even risky between different (capacity, manufacturer) drives. If by this you mean the latter stategy involving sfdisk/rsync/grub the sfdisk step will mostly not work between disparate media. 2007/10/7, Brian Litzinger [EMAIL PROTECTED]: On Sun, Oct 07, 2007 at 12:49:11AM -0400, Peter Davoust wrote: This may be a little noobish, and it may have been said, but can't you just install the new drive, partition it identically to the original drive and then... dd if=/dev/hda1 of=/dev/hdb1 dd if=/dev/hda2 of=/dev/hdb2 so on and so forth until you've got everything copied? Or event just dd if=/dev/hda of=/dev/hdb Wouldn't that work? The latter works fine in my experience. I do it regularly. The downside, is that cloning a 750GB drive takes a while as it duplicates everything including unused sectors. Things like clonezilla just copy the used/active sectors. A popular way is to use sfdisk. I do not remember the exact syntax, but a pair of sfdisk commands can transfer the partition information directly between two drives. Then use rsync to move the data across. You may have to run grub setup on the new disk too. -- Brian Litzinger -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list -- dott. ing. beso -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list
Re: [gentoo-amd64] gcc 4.2.1 unstable?
Thanks... I was looking at the wrong internal portage tree. ;) -J -- On Mon, Oct 08, 2007 at 03:35:14PM +0200, Christoph Mende wrote: On Sun, 7 Oct 2007 14:09:30 -1000 Joshua Hoblitt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Folks, The reason I ask is that there are alot of people (i.e., my users) eager for a version of gcc that supports openmp (like gcc 4.2.1+) and many of the specialized openmp compilers (like onmi) won't build on amd64. gcc-4.2.0 and gcc-4.2.1 both support openmp and are in the normal tree. pgpN5O9fHiPkn.pgp Description: PGP signature
