RE: [gentoo-user] portage problems

[Allen Parker]

You should definitely file your own bug report. One of the caveats of
running "~x86" is that sometimes things are just broken. I'd suggest a
rebuild with ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="x86" instead as portage-2.0.49-r15 is working
fine for me. If there are things that are masked unstable/experimental that
you need, you can always emerge search  cd
/usr/portage// and then emerge
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Carpaski, I cc'd you because you are of course the minor deity of all that
is portage! I invoke thee, in the name of Gentoo, please bestow help upon
this poor user and fix his portage!

> -Original Message-
> From: Robert Cole [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Sent: Tuesday, December 02, 2003 1:35 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: [gentoo-user] portage problems
> 
> A while back while installing an app I got this error:
> 
> ws1 root # emerge -p mplayer
> 
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
> 
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> Traceback (most recent call last):
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2200, in ?
> mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist())
>   File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1105, in display
> elif (not "--emptytree" in myopts) and portage.db[x[1]]
> ["vartree"].exists_specific_cat(x[2]):
>   File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3480, in
> exists_specific_cat
> self.invalidentry(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+a[0]+"/"+x)
> AttributeError: vartree instance has no attribute 'invalidentry'
> 
> And I get it frequently now and sometimes can't install apps as in this
> case.
> 
> I'm running
> ws1 root # emerge -V
> Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9,
> 2.6.0-test10-mm1)
> 
> I've searched and searched the forums and bug reports and tried several
> things
> like deleting the world file but nothing has helped.
> 
> Is there something I'm missing here? :) Anyone have any idea how to fix
> this?
> 
> Thanks!
> Robert
> 
> ps. FYI, This is a newly built system from stage 1 using USE=pic and
> CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe"
> and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"
> 
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[gentoo-user] portage problems

[Robert Cole]

A while back while installing an app I got this error:

ws1 root # emerge -p mplayer

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
Traceback (most recent call last):
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 2200, in ?
mydepgraph.display(mydepgraph.altlist())
  File "/usr/bin/emerge", line 1105, in display
elif (not "--emptytree" in myopts) and portage.db[x[1]]
["vartree"].exists_specific_cat(x[2]):
  File "/usr/lib/portage/pym/portage.py", line 3480, in exists_specific_cat
self.invalidentry(self.root+"var/db/pkg/"+a[0]+"/"+x)
AttributeError: vartree instance has no attribute 'invalidentry'

And I get it frequently now and sometimes can't install apps as in this case.

I'm running 
ws1 root # emerge -V
Portage 2.0.49-r18 (default-x86-1.4, gcc-3.3.2, glibc-2.3.2-r9, 
2.6.0-test10-mm1)

I've searched and searched the forums and bug reports and tried several things 
like deleting the world file but nothing has helped.

Is there something I'm missing here? :) Anyone have any idea how to fix this? 

Thanks!
Robert

ps. FYI, This is a newly built system from stage 1 using USE=pic and 
CFLAGS="-O3 -march=pentium4 -fomit-frame-pointer -funroll-loops -pipe"
and ACCEPT_KEYWORDS="~x86"

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[gentoo-user] CHOST="i?86-pc-linux-gnu"

[Nicholas]

Hi,

I'm trying to install Gentoo on an AMD K6-III system -- successfully -- until 
I noticed that the ebuild for xine-lib-0.9.13-r3 had changed my -march=k6-3 
to i686 and libpng changed it to i586.

I understand why this is done, but I thought that a k6-III was equivalent to 
i586, and built my system (from stage 1) with CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu".

I know I can't use CHOST="k6-3-pc-linux-gnu" (at least in part because the 
extra '-' confuses the parsing) because I've tried on my Mandrake 9.1 :-) but 
should I use the default CHOST="i686-pc-linux-gnu" instead?

Gcc info page doesn't help;
> `-mcpu=CPU-TYPE'
>  Tune to CPU-TYPE everything applicable about the generated code,
>  except for the ABI and the set of available instructions.  The
>  choices for CPU-TYPE are `i386', `i486', `i586', `i686',
>  `pentium', `pentium-mmx', `pentiumpro', `pentium2', `pentium3',
>  `pentium4', `k6', `k6-2', `k6-3', `athlon', `athlon-tbird',
>  `athlon-4', `athlon-xp', `athlon-mp', `winchip-c6', `winchip2' and
>  `c3'.
> 
>  While picking a specific CPU-TYPE will schedule things
>  appropriately for that particular chip, the compiler will not
>  generate any code that does not run on the i386 without the
>  `-march=CPU-TYPE' option being used.  `i586' is equivalent to
>  `pentium' and `i686' is equivalent to `pentiumpro'.  `k6' and
>  `athlon' are the AMD chips as opposed to the Intel ones.
> 
> `-march=CPU-TYPE'
>  Generate instructions for the machine type CPU-TYPE.  The choices
>  for CPU-TYPE are the same as for `-mcpu'.  Moreover, specifying
>  `-march=CPU-TYPE' implies `-mcpu=CPU-TYPE'.
second paragraph, last sentence seems not to have been updated for a while...

I've seen a version of make.conf (quoted in a forum) 
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic.php?t=89058&sid=d4c287758d27febac037f44b2b3e0c19
that says
> All K6's are i586.
-- but xine-lib leads me to doubt this -- and mine just says;

# If you are using a Pentium Pro or greater processor, leave this line as-is;
# otherwise, change to i586, i486 or i386 as appropriate. All modern systems
# (even Athlons) should use "i686-pc-linux-gnu".

I thought the Pentium Pro was a dead-end, and that the Pentium II was based on 
the Pentium.  Can I infer from "All modern systems (even Athlons)", that k6* 
_shouldn't_ use "i686-pc-linux-gnu" ?  If so, why am I able to compile with 
-march=i686?

I'm confused and worried that Im not giving this old nag free rein.

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Re: [gentoo-user] way way OT: Prince of Persia commercial

[Thomas Achtemichuk]

It actually says his name at the bottom of the screen at the end of the  
commercial: Peter Gabriel.. oh wait that is in the Uru ad you had me  
wodering there for a second. /me googles... Ah:

"To extend and enhance the immersive, atmospheric experience of Prince  
of Persia: The Sands of Time, Ubi Soft has teamed with legendary  
musicians Jason Bentley and DJ Melo-D, who are creating an original  
song - inspired by the universe and gameplay - that will be used in  
commercials and trailers for the game."

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On 12/02/03 00:40:24, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
I'm sure that most of you who own a TV in the US have seen one of the  
many commercials for the new game 'Prince of Persia: Sands of Time'.  
Also, I'm sure that many of you who have seen it think that the music  
in the commercial is damn cool. Does anyone know the artist and/or  
name of that song?

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[gentoo-user] ProFTPd login problems

[nuk]

Hello,

I am attempting to get proftpd running 'properly' on my Gentoo box.  I
have largely copied the provided /etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf.sample to
/etc/proftpd/proftpd.conf.  I can log in anonymously, and regularly as an
authenticated user.  What's giving me grief is that in my system log
(/var/log/everything/current) I'm seeing the following during a login:

proftpd[24959]: [gentoo (e-mac] Permission denied_
- Last output repeated 8 times -
proftpd[24959]: [gentoo (e-mac] Login successful._
proftpd[24959]: [gentoo (e-mac] Permission denied_


There is also a significant time delay (5-15seconds).

I ran proftpd w/ debugging turned on, and captured the following tidbits
(i.e. the only things that looked out of place):

gentoo (e-mac[192.168.123.103]) - performing ident lookup
gentoo (e-mac[192.168.123.103]) - ident connection failed: Interrupted
system call
gentoo (e-mac[192.168.123.103]) - ident lookup returned 'UNKNOWN'

Which seems to indicate that it's trying to do an ident lookup.  I
presume there is some way to turn that off?

And then there is this:

gentoo (e-mac[192.168.123.103]) - Unable to open group file /etc/group for
reading: Permission denied

which seems to indicate that proftpd is having trouble opening /etc/group,
so I checked the permissions on /etc/group, and they seem a little tight
to me:

gentoo root # ls -al /etc/group
-rw---1 root root  712 Nov 30 21:19 /etc/group

Any thoughts, suggestions, ideas on how to fix this?

TIA,

nuk

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[gentoo-user] way way OT: Prince of Persia commercial

[Andrew Gaffney]

I'm sure that most of you who own a TV in the US have seen one of the many commercials for 
the new game 'Prince of Persia: Sands of Time'. Also, I'm sure that many of you who have 
seen it think that the music in the commercial is damn cool. Does anyone know the artist 
and/or name of that song?

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge k3b problem

[Paul Varner]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:47, Klaus Neumann wrote:
> Paul Varner wrote:
> >What does emerge -pv app-cdr/cdrtools say?
> >
> >
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>  
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> [ebuild  N] app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01_alpha19  -dvdr
> -
> Here we go: first emerge cdrtools, and then k3b, right?

I would try:

emerge --oneshot -v cdrtools and then emerge -v k3b

Regards,
Paul

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Re: [gentoo-user] Alsamixer will not work.....

[Keith Dart]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:09, Steve wrote:
> When I run alsamixer ( as root or a normal user) I get this:
> 
> Illegal Instruction.

Did you compile that from source? If so, what is your -arch set to? What
kind of CPU is your machine?

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Mark Knecht]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:46, Jonathan Stickel wrote:
> Mark Knecht wrote:
> > It looks quite nice, but the features page doesn't list FAT as a supported
> > file system type...
> > 
> > - Mark
> > 
> It is really strange that that qtparted web page deosn't list FAT32 
> support.  I am very sure it is supported, though:  a) parted itself 
> explicitly supports fat32 (man parted), and b) this screenshot of 
> qtparted shows a resize dialog of a fat32 partition: 
> http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/images/screenshot-002-a.jpg
> 
> Jonathan

I built qtparted this afternoon. It's interface is quite nice. (Dare I
say a bit too much like the Windows XP Disk manager app.) The app
recognized my FAT32 partition, but I got some really ugly messages in
the xterm I started to run it, so I wasn't sure if I should go any
further just yet.


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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge k3b problem

[Klaus Neumann]

Paul Varner wrote:

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:01, Klaus Neumann wrote:
 

Paul Varner wrote:
   

One of the packages that satisfies the virtual is app-cdr/cdrtools. 
What does an emerge -pv app-cdr/cdrtools tell you?  Also, have tried
rerunning an emerge sync and retrying the emerge -pv k3b command.  I've
seen glitches with the portage tree sometimes, that get corrected with
redoing the sync of the tree.

 

I tried emerge sync, but it didn't solve the problem. I guess I'll have 
to wait and see ...
   

What does emerge -pv app-cdr/cdrtools say?

 

These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies ...done!
[ebuild  N] app-cdr/cdrtools-2.01_alpha19  -dvdr
-
Here we go: first emerge cdrtools, and then k3b, right?
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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jonathan Stickel]

Mark Knecht wrote:
I would suggest QtParted (a gui for parted,
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/).  I've never used it, but it looks
like it should work with FAT32.
As already mentioned, KNOPPIX would be helpful to get started since you
can boot from it and will have a full set of gnu/linux tools available.
 QtParted (and hence parted) are included with the latest KNOPPIX.
Jonathan


It looks quite nice, but the features page doesn't list FAT as a supported
file system type...
- Mark

It is really strange that that qtparted web page deosn't list FAT32 
support.  I am very sure it is supported, though:  a) parted itself 
explicitly supports fat32 (man parted), and b) this screenshot of 
qtparted shows a resize dialog of a fat32 partition: 
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/images/screenshot-002-a.jpg

Jonathan

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge k3b problem

[Paul Varner]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 14:01, Klaus Neumann wrote:
> Paul Varner wrote:
> >One of the packages that satisfies the virtual is app-cdr/cdrtools. 
> >What does an emerge -pv app-cdr/cdrtools tell you?  Also, have tried
> >rerunning an emerge sync and retrying the emerge -pv k3b command.  I've
> >seen glitches with the portage tree sometimes, that get corrected with
> >redoing the sync of the tree.
> >
> I tried emerge sync, but it didn't solve the problem. I guess I'll have 
> to wait and see ...

What does emerge -pv app-cdr/cdrtools say?

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Re: [gentoo-user] reiser, fsck

[Jonathan Stickel]

Andrew Farmer wrote:
On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:20:27 -0800, Jonathan Stickel muttered:

In switching from Red Hat to Gentoo, I have started using reiserfs 
rather than ext3 for my Linux partitions.  For ext3 partitions, I know 
how to make fsck run on boot (shutdown -F, or set the mount count with 
tune2fs).  Is there something analogous for reiser?  I think reiserfsck 
may be running every boot, but I'm not sure because it happens so fast; 
is this typical?


Yes, reiserfs doesn't really need a full-blown fsck every boot.

OK, ext3 doesn't need a full-blown fsck every boot either.  I'm asking 
specifically how to do a one-time full-blown fsck of reiser during a 
boot.  Sorry if I wasn't completely clear.

Thanks,
Jonathan
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[gentoo-user] Alsamixer will not work.....

[Steve]

When I run alsamixer ( as root or a normal user) I get this:

Illegal Instruction.

When I run it with strace I get:

execve("/usr/bin/alsamixer", ["alsamixer"], [/* 40 vars */]) = 0
uname({sys="Linux", node="zero", ...})  = 0
brk(0)  = 0x804f8f0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0x4000
open("/etc/ld.so.preload", O_RDONLY)= 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=0, ...}) = 0
close(3)= 0
open("/etc/ld.so.cache", O_RDONLY)  = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=71882, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 71882, PROT_READ, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40001000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libncurses.so.5", O_RDONLY)  = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\260\220"..., 1024) 
= 1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=277732, ...}) = 0
mmap2(0x43feb000, 239532, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x43feb000
mprotect(0x4401d000, 34732, PROT_NONE)  = 0
mmap2(0x4401d000, 36864, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x31) = 0x4401d000
close(3)= 0
open("/usr/lib/libasound.so.2", O_RDONLY) = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240\326"..., 1024) 
= 1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=693572, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 560564, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x40013000
mprotect(0x40098000, 15796, PROT_NONE)  = 0
mmap2(0x40098000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x84) = 0x40098000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libm.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\240\25"..., 1024) 
= 1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=190675, ...}) = 0
mmap2(0x42b5e000, 139072, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x42b5e000
mprotect(0x42b7f000, 3904, PROT_NONE)   = 0
mmap2(0x42b7f000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x20) = 0x42b7f000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libdl.so.2", O_RDONLY)   = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\360\250"..., 1024) 
= 1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=13992, ...}) = 0
mmap2(0x42b59000, 11408, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x42b59000
mprotect(0x42b5b000, 3216, PROT_NONE)   = 0
mmap2(0x42b5b000, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x1) = 0x42b5b000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libpthread.so.0", O_RDONLY)  = 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\20a\307"..., 1024) 
= 1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=93290, ...}) = 0
mmap2(0x42c72000, 327200, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x42c72000
mprotect(0x42c7f000, 273952, PROT_NONE) = 0
mmap2(0x42c7f000, 12288, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0xd) = 0x42c7f000
mmap2(0x42c82000, 261664, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, 
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x42c82000
close(3)= 0
open("/lib/libc.so.6", O_RDONLY)= 3
read(3, "\177ELF\1\1\1\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\0\3\0\3\0\1\0\0\0\300\371"..., 1024) 
= 1024
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0755, st_size=1470058, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 
0x4009c000
mmap2(0x42a2a000, 1232548, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC, MAP_PRIVATE, 3, 0) = 0x42a2a000
mprotect(0x42b51000, 24228, PROT_NONE)  = 0
mmap2(0x42b51000, 16384, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED, 3, 
0x126) = 0x42b51000
mmap2(0x42b55000, 7844, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE, 
MAP_PRIVATE|MAP_FIXED|MAP_ANONYMOUS, -1, 0) = 0x42b55000
close(3)= 0
mprotect(0x40013000, 544768, PROT_READ|PROT_WRITE) = 0
mprotect(0x40013000, 544768, PROT_READ|PROT_EXEC) = 0
munmap(0x40001000, 71882)   = 0
modify_ldt(1, {entry_number:0, base_addr:0x42c7f0a0, limit:1048575, 
seg_32bit:1, contents:0, read_exec_only:0, limit_in_pages:1, 
seg_not_present:0, useable:1}, 16) = 0
getpid()= 4147
rt_sigaction(SIGRTMIN, {0x42c79e00, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x42a53188}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGRT_1, {0x42c79e50, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x42a53188}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigaction(SIGRT_2, {0x42c79fc0, [], SA_RESTORER, 0x42a53188}, NULL, 8) = 0
rt_sigprocmask(SIG_BLOCK, [RTMIN], NULL, 8) = 0
_sysctl({{CTL_KERN, KERN_VERSION}, 2, 0xb59c, 31, (nil), 0}) = 0
open("/dev/urandom", O_RDONLY)  = 3
read(3, "\27\375Bz1Bgs\253\360W:\311C\2533_\253\375\300\227\203"..., 32) = 32
close(3)= 0
brk(0)  = 0x804f8f0
brk(0x80508f0)  = 0x80508f0
brk(0)  = 0x80508f0
brk(0x8051000)  = 0x8051000
stat64("/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf", {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8007, 
...}) = 0
open("/usr/share/alsa/alsa.conf", O_RDONLY) = 3
fstat64(3, {st_mode=S_IFREG|0644, st_size=8007, ...}) = 0
mmap2(NULL, 4096,

Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with usb storage and fetchmail

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rd wrote:
Regarding USB...  I hope that the suggestion works.  Please let us
know.  From my experience, not all USB memory sticks are supported by
linux, not even the 2.6 kernel.  There are many different chip sets in
use.  Good luck
I mixed USB and Firewire up ...  with Firewire I don't get devices when 
plugging in the disk. so have to rescan the bus to get it working ...
and the update to 2.6 helps for that (firewire-)problem ...

with USB my problems are that the device remain in the devfs after 
unplugging the storage-device ...
so the same device get for each "plugging" a new device-node (so when 
plugged the third time the stick is accessible as /dev/sdc1 :-(

my workaround to get it back to /dev/sda1 is:
  rmmod sd_mod
  rmmod usb-storage
  /etc/init.d/hotplug restart
Martin
-rdg

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 15:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

anh le wrote:

Hello gentoo user n helper :)

I installed gentoo linux 1.4 on an i686 but have 2 troubles

1- USB storage (I have a 32 MB memory stick)
I have install scsi mod, sd_mod, usbcore, usb-storage
(everything needed that I once read from forum)
I modprobe everything seem to be ok
but when I mount
---
mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/flash
---
it fires back:
---
mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
---
then 
mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1
also not helps

You need to rescan your SCSI-Bus for new devices (USB-Devies use the 
SCSI structur of th kernel ...

I do that job with a script from SuSE ... it is called rescan-scsi-bus.sh

here is it :
   http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh
or have a look at google to find it
it creates for you the nodes and makes them usable ... (or update to 
Kernel 2.6 there is a new system which is working well ...)



Martin

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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge k3b problem

[Klaus Neumann]

Paul Varner wrote:

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 13:29, Klaus Neumann wrote:
 

trying to emerge k3b, I got this:
emerge -pv k3b
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies /
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy 
"virtual/cdrtools".

!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.

Can I fix this somehow?
   

Klaus,

One of the packages that satisfies the virtual is app-cdr/cdrtools. 
What does an emerge -pv app-cdr/cdrtools tell you?  Also, have tried
rerunning an emerge sync and retrying the emerge -pv k3b command.  I've
seen glitches with the portage tree sometimes, that get corrected with
redoing the sync of the tree.

 

I tried emerge sync, but it didn't solve the problem. I guess I'll have 
to wait and see ...

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Re: [gentoo-user] HOW TO PARTITION NTFS using Open Source Tools

[nealbirch]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 22:38:27 -0500
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:

> 
> I had recently installed winxp (ntfs) on hdd1, new 80 gig drive. I
> didn't partition it when I installed it, so there is plenty of room on
> the drive.

The Knoppix cd, btw, has all the tools to do this. Anyone need a copy of
Partition Magic 8.0? I don't think I need it anymore...


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Re: [gentoo-user] emerge k3b problem

[Paul Varner]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 13:29, Klaus Neumann wrote:
> trying to emerge k3b, I got this:
>  emerge -pv k3b
>  
> These are the packages that I would merge, in order:
>  
> Calculating dependencies /
> emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy 
> "virtual/cdrtools".
>  
> !!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.
> 
> Can I fix this somehow?

Klaus,

One of the packages that satisfies the virtual is app-cdr/cdrtools. 
What does an emerge -pv app-cdr/cdrtools tell you?  Also, have tried
rerunning an emerge sync and retrying the emerge -pv k3b command.  I've
seen glitches with the portage tree sometimes, that get corrected with
redoing the sync of the tree.

Regards,
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Re: [gentoo-user] HOW TO PARTITION NTFS using Open Source Tools

[nealbirch]

On Tue, 02 Dec 2003 01:42:52 +0100
Redeeman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> ntfs READ is rock solid in linux, never tried to write, but in the new
> 2.6 partly stabile write support is
> > 
> > Seems like doing it, but I'm suspicious about NTFS and the linux
> > kernel. Has it got out of EXPERIMENTAL ?
> > 
> > I lost a great deal of data using mandrake one year ago and writing
> > one file to an NTFS partition. (it was backed up though)
> > All files disappeared. Folders left undestroyed.

More recent info:

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/

The following was done in the last hour. I love linux.

I had recently installed winxp (ntfs) on hdd1, new 80 gig drive. I
didn't partition it when I installed it, so there is plenty of room on
the drive. After reading the thread, and the above link, I decided, what
the hell. (What I should have done, and didn't, is a checkdisk and
defrag in winxp first, of course, and I would recommend it. I had just
installed winxp so I was reasonable sure my drive wasn't too hosed up
yet, and I wouldn't loose anything but saved games in CivIII and Rise
of Nations if I screwed up.)

RULE #1: READ THE MAN PAGES! 

I had added ntfs file system and rebuilt the kernel, I did it as module.
Rebooted. Made new/etc/fstab entry and appropriate mount point:

/dev/hdd1  /mnt/winxp   ntfs   ro,noauto,users0 0

Then I did "emerge ntfsprogs"

root# man ntfsresize

root# ntfsresize -n -s 40G /dev/hdd1

The -n flag is a dry run. ntfsresize told me that it couldn't do
that, but it could resize to 41G, wasn't that polite of it?

root# ntfsresize -s 41G /dev/hdd1

Then ntfsresize reminds you to rewrite the partition table. I used
cfdisk for that. It's part of sys-apps/util-linux so you have it
installed already.

root# man cfdisk

root# cfdisk /dev/hdd

Main thing here is to get the size right, as it won't show you whatever
you resized to using ntfsresize. I deleted the one big partition cfdisk
showed, then create the 1st partition 41000mb, type ntfs (07), and
bootable. I made the rest a linux partition, so now /dev/hdd1 is around
41Gb, and hdd2 is about 39Gb. Then I wrote the partition table, then
exit cfdisk.

ok dokey. Now I wanted to give winxp a chance to heal its ntfs
partition, so I rebooted into winxp, chkdsk detected a change and did
whatever proprietary bs that it does to make things right. YAH!
WindowsXP now has a drive with a new size! Chkdsk was the only
non-opensource tool I used for this, and it did everything
automagically. Next, I made sure my mission critical programs
worked. CivIII and Rise of Nations started, so I'm good there.=)

Editorial Comment:
It's pretty funny that the only thing I use windows for is games. I
should just get a PS/2, I guess, but I make money fixing other peoples
windows boxes, so what can I do? I keep remembering the line in the
Wizard of Oz, when the Wizard tells Dorothy "Times being what they are,
I took the job." and Dorothy just nods in agreement.

Ok, rebooted back to linux, comes up just fine.  I need another
/etc/fstab entry:

/dev/hdd2  /mnt/backup  reiserfs   noauto,noatime,notail,users  0 0

root# mkdir /mnt/backup
root# mkfs -t reiserfs /dev/hdd2

Both new partitions mount just fine in linux, thank you very much. Now I
can use that 39Gb partition to back up my /home and /root so if I hose
my drive, I don't loose valuable data. 

Now, where was that thread on backups... I think rdiff-backup might be
the way to go there... =)

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Re: [gentoo-user] Did anony receive this crap too?

[Kathy Wills]

rd wrote:

And if they are NOT be munged -- WHY WHY WHY not!!!

-rdg

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 17:40, Steven Elling wrote:
 

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 22:09, FX wrote:
   

I started getting it on  Nov 18th.  two or three a day.  

the
MS update attached crap email
and
some with  undeliverable Mail:User Unknown
 

I'm getting the same ones.  I'm starting to get up to around 10 a day. 
But the thing is most of the MS worms (W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] in this case) that
are sending out the faked MS updates and forcing the undeliverable Mail
bounces are harvesting the e-mail address from the Outlook address book.

So, if any of you out there are using MS Lookout... I mean Outlook...
without a virus scanner, shame on you.
BTW: I haven't looked at the archives, but are the e-mail addresses
being munged?
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[gentoo-user] emerge k3b problem

[Klaus Neumann]

trying to emerge k3b, I got this:
emerge -pv k3b
These are the packages that I would merge, in order:

Calculating dependencies /
emerge: there are no masked or unmasked ebuilds to satisfy 
"virtual/cdrtools".

!!! Error calculating dependencies. Please correct.

Can I fix this somehow?

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Re: [gentoo-user] Did anony receive this crap too?

[rd]

And if they are NOT be munged -- WHY WHY WHY not!!!

-rdg

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 17:40, Steven Elling wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 22:09, FX wrote:
> > I started getting it on  Nov 18th.  two or three a day.  
> > 
> > the
> >  MS update attached crap email
> > and
> > some with  undeliverable Mail:User Unknown
> 
> I'm getting the same ones.  I'm starting to get up to around 10 a day. 
> But the thing is most of the MS worms (W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] in this case) that
> are sending out the faked MS updates and forcing the undeliverable Mail
> bounces are harvesting the e-mail address from the Outlook address book.
> 
> So, if any of you out there are using MS Lookout... I mean Outlook...
> without a virus scanner, shame on you.
> 
> BTW: I haven't looked at the archives, but are the e-mail addresses
> being munged?
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Digests do not match

[rd]

Sometimes an emerge -f  will fix it also.

-rdg

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 17:49, Ben Anderson wrote:
> Hi,
> I can't emerge kde, because this package is erroring:
> 
> gentoo sshd # emerge  media-libs/lcms
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
> >>>emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/lcms-1.11 to /
> >>>Downloading http://www.littlecms.com/lcms-1.11.tar.gz
> 
> All Done: Download Succesfull!
> 
> !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match)
> >>>our recorded digest: 9b90cad3620776e891ef686da0678918
> >>>  your file's digest: b21a563eeb240e08d3371cb1426b2bc6
> !!! File does not exist: /usr/portage/distfiles//lcms-1.11.tar.gz
> 
> Seems like a common problem - easy fix?
> Thanks,
> Ben
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] Digests do not match

[Daniel]

-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE-
Hash: SHA1




> gentoo sshd # emerge  media-libs/lcms
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
>
> >>>emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/lcms-1.11 to /
> >>>Downloading http://www.littlecms.com/lcms-1.11.tar.gz
> !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match)
> >>>our recorded digest: 9b90cad3620776e891ef686da0678918

I got the recorded digest.

bash-2.05b# md5sum /usr/portage/distfiles//lcms-1.11.tar.gz
9b90cad3620776e891ef686da0678918  /usr/portage/distfiles//lcms-1.11.tar.gz
bash-2.05b# ls -la /usr/portage/distfiles//lcms-1.11.tar.gz
- -rw-rw-r--1 root portage559622 Dec  2 09:31 /usr/portage/
distfiles//lcms-1.11.tar.gz
bash-2.05b#



Things to try 

gzip -t /usr/portage/distfiles//lcms-1.11.tar.gz

if no error then its a complete file. If you're sure you got it from the 
server its probably safe to do a digest. (insert discaimer here though)

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Re: [gentoo-user] alsa works applications dont

[Thomas Achtemichuk]

You will need to emerge media-plugins/alsa-xmms for xmms to be able to  
output to ALSA. And select the ALSA plugin from the mplayer  
preferences. Adding "alsa" to your USE variables will ensure that apps  
are built with ALSA support in the future.

Or you can use OSS output for any app and emerge media-libs/alsa-oss  
for the ALSA/OSS compatibility layer.

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On 12/01/03 21:44:28, Stephen Turner wrote:
hey i ran back through the alsa guide and noticed the alsa drivers
working
but xmms and mplayer isnt. actually, no sound is except when i use
aplay.
any suggestions? thanks for your help!
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[gentoo-user] alsa works applications dont

[Stephen Turner]

hey i ran back through the alsa guide and noticed the alsa drivers working
but xmms and mplayer isnt. actually, no sound is except when i use aplay.
any suggestions? thanks for your help!

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Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

[Ernie Schroder]

On Monday 01 December 2003 06:38 pm, Steven Elling wrote:
> On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 17:47, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> > On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 03:35, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> > > You can also use the "watch" command, e.g. "watch ps aux" would
> > > run "ps aux" every 2 seconds and display the results. If you
> > > want to run it every 30 seconds just do "watch -n 30 ps aux".
> > > "man watch" for details. BTW, watch is in sys-apps/procps
> > > package, so you already have it.
> >
> > This is fantastic. I've wanted a command like this for years.
> >
> > You know what I love about the *nix community? There are always
> > things you don't know, but people out there will actually help
> > and offer suggestions.
> >
> > Thanks for the tip, Renat.
> >
> > AfC
> >
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> And here is a poor man's watch in those cases where watch is not
> available on the system your using:
>
> while true; do clear; date; echo; ps aux; sleep 30; done
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Thanks to all who've tried to help. I've used most of the suggestions 
I've been given but trying to catch the crashes has been like trying 
to catch fish in the middle of the Sahara. I've loaded the heck out 
of the box until it was swapping 300 megs I had several terminals 
open with various meathods of waching for problems. All of this told 
me nothing.
The one thing that seems to be pertinant at this point is that for 
about 24 hours I had gtk-gnutella turned off. 4 hours after 
restarting it the box crashed. Perhaps this is a hint? Gtk-gnutella 
was one of the updates I did just before this whole situation 
started. I have reverted to the old version and am going to leave it 
running on another desktop and see what happens.
I need to make it very clear that I appreciate all the effort that 
you've all put in to this. Even if I don't find a solution, I've 
learned a few more tricks. Great people, these Gentooers Freely 
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Re: [gentoo-user] DMA

[Helder Correia]

On Tuesday 02 December 2003 00:06, Arthur Britto wrote:

> 5. If it did turn on dma, you need to add hdparm to be started at boot:
>rc-update add hdparm boot

Now it works...do I hear newbie?
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Re: [gentoo-user] CFLAGS

[Oliver Lange]

Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower) wrote:
A lot of people seem to not use "-O3", because it can cause worse
performance in some situations. I'm gonna leave it in my "make.conf" till
someone (maybe me, if I get some free time) shows that it causes worse
performance on average. Because that is really what the flags in "make.conf"
should be geared toward. They should be geared toward what gives you the
best performance on average (without breaking things).
I asked myself the same question, but i'm too lazy to check this out -
compiling alone would take langer than one night on my box (fast cpu
but tons of software), and i ask myself which tests to run and which
apps to test...
I'll probably switch back to -O2, because:

- O3 is only required for functions/methods that do heavy computing
  without calling many system functions in between. That's only true
  for compiling, audio/video computing and the like.
- O3 compiled binaries are much larger, about 30-50% (not excessively tested),
  so loading takes a little bit longer, and some code may no longer fit into
  the CPU's code cache, breaking computing performance.
- As long as i don't really know about concrete examples shown by other
  users in comparison tests, i guess i'll choose the smaller binaries.
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Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with usb storage and fetchmail

[rd]

Regarding USB...  I hope that the suggestion works.  Please let us
know.  From my experience, not all USB memory sticks are supported by
linux, not even the 2.6 kernel.  There are many different chip sets in
use.  Good luck


-rdg

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 15:57, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> anh le wrote:
> > Hello gentoo user n helper :)
> > 
> > I installed gentoo linux 1.4 on an i686 but have 2 troubles
> > 
> > 1- USB storage (I have a 32 MB memory stick)
> > I have install scsi mod, sd_mod, usbcore, usb-storage
> > (everything needed that I once read from forum)
> > I modprobe everything seem to be ok
> > but when I mount
> > 
> > ---
> > mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/flash
> > ---
> > it fires back:
> > 
> > ---
> > mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
> > ---
> > then 
> > mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1
> > also not helps
> > 
> 
> You need to rescan your SCSI-Bus for new devices (USB-Devies use the 
> SCSI structur of th kernel ...
> 
> I do that job with a script from SuSE ... it is called rescan-scsi-bus.sh
> 
> here is it :
> http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh
> or have a look at google to find it
> 
> it creates for you the nodes and makes them usable ... (or update to 
> Kernel 2.6 there is a new system which is working well ...)
> 
> > ##
> > 
> > 2. I installed fetchmail, wrote a fetchmailrc with fetchall option
> > 
> > First I run fetchmail -cv (normal user) to see it work, but all my fetched
> > mail go nowhere, 
> > 
> > I don't know where they've gone! already check /var/spool/mail/anh 
> > 
> > My email on server still all there.
> 
> Perhaps your own (local) mailserver doesn't accept that mails ?
> 
> I don't know. I used fetchmail a long time ago 
> 
> 
> Martin
> 
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[gentoo-user] about spam

[Oliver Lange]

Hi Everybody,

IMHO, the traditional (our currently used) email protocol
is dead.
I see many people investigate & research for methods how to
filter spam mails, how to protect email accounts and about
how much time people spend to keep that old rubbish email
thing alive, instead of launching a new or extended protocol..
Lets not kid ourselves: they start to embed fullscreen
images in html mails. If this continues, the actual
email protocol will fall. I'll soon ask my provider to
delete every html mail sent to any of my accounts.
A local email filter is no tool for me because it actually
*downloads* everything before it can be checked.
We need a system with optional per-account authorization,
configured at the provider's server, and an email previewing
client which only fetches address & subject from each new mail,
then the user decides which of these really to download.
Mails that have been fetched (but not downloaded within a week or so)
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Re: [gentoo-user] Digests do not match

[Brett I. Holcomb]

The download may be corrupted.  You can remove it and try again.  You can try 
another mirror and see it that works.  As a very last resort and not 
recommended you can use ebuild packagename digest to generate a new one.  
However, I'd try getting another download - if you can try tomorrow.

On Monday 01 December 2003 18:49, you wrote:
> Hi,
> I can't emerge kde, because this package is erroring:
>
> gentoo sshd # emerge  media-libs/lcms
> Calculating dependencies ...done!
>
> >>>emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/lcms-1.11 to /
> >>>Downloading http://www.littlecms.com/lcms-1.11.tar.gz
>
> All Done: Download Succesfull!
>
> !!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match)
>
> >>>our recorded digest: 9b90cad3620776e891ef686da0678918
> >>>  your file's digest: b21a563eeb240e08d3371cb1426b2bc6
>
> !!! File does not exist: /usr/portage/distfiles//lcms-1.11.tar.gz
>
> Seems like a common problem - easy fix?
> Thanks,
> Ben
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Did anony receive this crap too?

[Oliver Lange]

Steven Elling wrote:
So, if any of you out there are using MS Lookout... I mean Outlook...
without a virus scanner, shame on you.
Better wish them luck. :)

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Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs undelete ?

[Oliver Lange]

Steven Elling wrote:
Here is some fodder:

Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory

http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=473

Yep, something like that :)

So, not being able to undelete some regularly deleted files
is clearly not a filesys 'feature'.
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Re: [gentoo-user] domainname

[Thomas T. Veldhouse]

There is a bug in the startup scripts that was fixed later on.  

# emerge sync
# sys-apps/baselayout
# etc-update

Have fun!

:)

Tom Veldhouse

- Original Message - 
From: "Ted Ozolins" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 2:58 PM
Subject: [gentoo-user] domainname


> in issuing "domainname" it returns (none). I have domain blahblah.net in 
> /etc/resolv.conf and the same in /etc/dnsdomainname but it still keeps 
> returning (none) when queried. What have I not set? Querying for 
> "hostname" returns the proper name.
> 
> TIA
> 
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RE: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Redeeman]

if you mean fat isnt supported by knoppix i can tell you it is, but its
not a "feature" to list as its in the kernel

On Tue, 2003-12-02 at 00:40, Mark Knecht wrote:
> > I would suggest QtParted (a gui for parted,
> > http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/).  I've never used it, but it looks
> > like it should work with FAT32.
> >
> > As already mentioned, KNOPPIX would be helpful to get started since you
> > can boot from it and will have a full set of gnu/linux tools available.
> >   QtParted (and hence parted) are included with the latest KNOPPIX.
> >
> > Jonathan
> 
> It looks quite nice, but the features page doesn't list FAT as a supported
> file system type...
> 
> - Mark
> 
> 
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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Redeeman]

ntfs READ is rock solid in linux, never tried to write, but in the new
2.6 partly stabile write support is

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 23:11, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
> Tom Wesley wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:57, Ric Messier wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
> >>
> >>
> Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
> Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?
> 
> 
> >>>Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable...
> >>>  
> >>>
> >>Actually, I don't find it believable at all since I've installed XP Home a 
> >>couple of times with NTFS. 
> >>
> >>Ric
> >>
> >>
> >
> >Given that, Jonas, have you tried `convert` from the command line?
> >  
> >
> OH SHT!
> I didn't know of that!
> 
> Seems like doing it, but I'm suspicious about NTFS and the linux kernel.
> Has it got out of EXPERIMENTAL ?
> 
> I lost a great deal of data using mandrake one year ago and writing one 
> file to an NTFS partition. (it was backed up though)
> All files disappeared. Folders left undestroyed.
> 
> And what about permissions in NTFS when XP doesn't even have a decent 
> way to manage it... Not like w2k anyway.
> maybe the GUI changes its behaviour when filesystem type changes?
> Yeah, I know. "discuss that somewhere else, kid."
> 
> Jonas
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Re: [gentoo-user] A good PCI modem that will work with Gentoo or Linux

[nealbirch]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 11:44:33 -0800
"Christopher Lyon" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> That sounds great. Do you have a part number? I can't seem to find
> any. It needs to be internal and can't be external or else someone
> will walk away with it.
> > USR makes an great pci modem (lists linux on the box) I've installed
> > quite a few of these.

Learn to quote properly or the quote police will run you in...

if you have access to amazon and are in the USofA:

http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B6BBV3/qid=1070323146/sr=1-18/ref=sr_1_18/103-0914598-7923827?v=glance&s=electronics

They are more expensive because it has a controller chip. The WinModems
use software to do the work of the controller chip so they practically
give those away. I have never had a problem with an USR, but most of
mine have been external. I would recommend a controller based modem,
even if it costs more.

Best Data also has them (cheaper):
http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B69E1S/qid=1070323616/sr=1-12/ref=sr_1_12/103-0914598-7923827?v=glance&s=electronics

amazon has free shipping stateside for most stuff over a certain dollar
amount. I sound like a damn amazon ad...

If you want to use a controller-less modem:

http://linmodems.technion.ac.il/pctel-linux/
http://walbran.org/sean/linux/linmodem-howto.html
http://www.idir.net/~gromitkc/winmodem.html


I found these at www.google.com/linux, always a good place to start. The
last link has a lot of good info. 

If you use one of the software based modems, you can save a lot, I pick
them up when they go on sale for $9.99 with a $10 rebate, and put them
in the rebuilds I do.  (I put together what I call "granny pc's" so
folks can talk their parents and the other luddites I know into getting
with the program for less then $200.) The modems are usually a pctel
chipset, for some reason.

Have fun!

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Re: [gentoo-user] reiser, fsck

[Andrew Farmer]

On Mon, 01 Dec 2003 15:20:27 -0800, Jonathan Stickel muttered:
> In switching from Red Hat to Gentoo, I have started using reiserfs 
> rather than ext3 for my Linux partitions.  For ext3 partitions, I know 
> how to make fsck run on boot (shutdown -F, or set the mount count with 
> tune2fs).  Is there something analogous for reiser?  I think reiserfsck 
> may be running every boot, but I'm not sure because it happens so fast; 
> is this typical?

Yes, reiserfs doesn't really need a full-blown fsck every boot.

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RE: [gentoo-user] Home Improvement Software?

[Rex Young]

> 
> I've seen some home improvement / landscaping shows on DIY 
> Net, Home and
> Leisure, etc. where they use software to add features (decks, trees,
> foliage, grasses, siding, etc.) to a digital picture of a 
> house, yard or
> garden to get a rough idea of what it would look like if implemented.
> 
> Does anyone here know of some home improvement / landscaping software
> for Linux that can do this or at least point me in the correct
> direction?  I'm not looking for large and complicated 3D modeling
> software because I don't feel like spending years to learn 
> the software
> just so I can create some simple digital sketches of some home
> improvement projects.

I've never seen anything for linux that meets your needs.  wine and a 
windows package, maybe?

cycas is damn easy to use.  (www.cycas.de)  It is, however, architectural
in focus.  Any others I (for linux) I know about are either incomplete or
are mechanical packages.  Good luck, and I wouldn't mind hearing if you
find something useful.

qualifier:

I've used and continue to use a variety of 3-d CAD software, so might
have found it easier to use than others might.

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Norbert Kamenicky]

Jonas Widarsson wrote:

Well...
My bank uses a "security plugin" that only supports IE or Netscape 4 
on mac or windows.
*ugly words*...

Which one is it ?   I guess 1-st Albanian ...

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[gentoo-user] Home Improvement Software?

[Steven Elling]

I've seen some home improvement / landscaping shows on DIY Net, Home and
Leisure, etc. where they use software to add features (decks, trees,
foliage, grasses, siding, etc.) to a digital picture of a house, yard or
garden to get a rough idea of what it would look like if implemented.

Does anyone here know of some home improvement / landscaping software
for Linux that can do this or at least point me in the correct
direction?  I'm not looking for large and complicated 3D modeling
software because I don't feel like spending years to learn the software
just so I can create some simple digital sketches of some home
improvement projects.

Thanks,

Steven Elling


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[gentoo-user] INIT Problems

[Steven Elling]

I did some package updates on my machine, installed syslog-ng, removed
metalog, removed the metalog init script from the default runlevel and
now I am getting errors during INIT.

Here are the errors during the boot:

/sbin/rc: line 21: retval: command not found
 
...
 
 * Caching service dependencies...
 *  Service 'metalog' already provide 'logger'!;
 *  Not adding service 'syslog-ng'... [ ok ]
 
...
 
 * Starting metalog...
start-stop-daemon: stat /usr/sbin/metalog: No such file or directory
 * Failed to start metalog [ !! ]
 * ERROR:  Problem starting needed services.
 * "atd" was not started.
 
...
 
 * Starting syslog-ng... [ ok ]
 * ERROR:  Problem starting needed services.
 * "vcron" was not started.
-

Why the problem with /sbin/rc?  Do I need to reinstall baselayout like I
did last time to get rid of error messages with '/sbin/runscript.sh'?


During the caching of service dependencies, why is it reporting metalog
already provides logger?  I removed the package and the init script from
all runlevels. Running 'rc-update del metalog' again just produces the
error 'metalog not found in any of the specified runlevels.'

Here is what rc-status shows:

Runlevel: default
 acpid [ started ]
 alsasound [ started ]
 atd [ off ]
 cupsd [ started ]
 distccd [ started ]
 fam [ started ]
 gpm [ started ]
 hotplug [ started ]
 keymaps [ started ]
 local [ started ]
 mysql [ started ]
 mythbackend [ started ]
 net.eth0 [ started ]
 netmount [ started ]
 ntpd [ started ]
 sshd [ started ]
 syslog-ng [ started ]
 vcron [ off ]
 vmware [ off ]
 ypbind [ started ]
-

I know atd and cron didn't start because the system thinks logger didn't
start so fixing the metalog problem should fix them as well.


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Re: [gentoo-user] DMA

[Arthur Britto]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 09:24, Helder Correia wrote:
> Shouldn't /etc/conf.c/hdparm 
> just work as if I run hdparm from a local script?

I would recommend:

1. Boot your system.
2. Verify that dma is off (and that you have a problem):
   hdparm -d /dev/hda
3. Verify that /etc/init.d/hdparm will turn it on:
   /etc/init.d/hdparm start
   hdparm -d /dev/hda
4. If it did not turn on dma, /etc/conf.d/hdparm is misconfigured.
5. If it did turn on dma, you need to add hdparm to be started at boot:
   rc-update add hdparm boot
6. This kind of sucks as fscks happen before hdparm is run.  You can
force hdparm to run before checkroot:
   echo "hdparm checkroot hostname modules checkfs localmount" >
/etc/runlevels/boot/.critical


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[gentoo-user] Digests do not match

[Ben Anderson]

Hi,
I can't emerge kde, because this package is erroring:
gentoo sshd # emerge  media-libs/lcms
Calculating dependencies ...done!
emerge (1 of 1) media-libs/lcms-1.11 to /
Downloading http://www.littlecms.com/lcms-1.11.tar.gz
All Done: Download Succesfull!

!!! File is corrupt or incomplete. (Digests do not match)
our recorded digest: 9b90cad3620776e891ef686da0678918
 your file's digest: b21a563eeb240e08d3371cb1426b2bc6
!!! File does not exist: /usr/portage/distfiles//lcms-1.11.tar.gz

Seems like a common problem - easy fix?
Thanks,
Ben
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RE: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Mark Knecht]

> I would suggest QtParted (a gui for parted,
> http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/).  I've never used it, but it looks
> like it should work with FAT32.
>
> As already mentioned, KNOPPIX would be helpful to get started since you
> can boot from it and will have a full set of gnu/linux tools available.
>   QtParted (and hence parted) are included with the latest KNOPPIX.
>
> Jonathan

It looks quite nice, but the features page doesn't list FAT as a supported
file system type...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Did anony receive this crap too?

[Steven Elling]

On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 22:09, FX wrote:
> I started getting it on  Nov 18th.  two or three a day.  
> 
> the
>  MS update attached crap email
> and
> some with  undeliverable Mail:User Unknown

I'm getting the same ones.  I'm starting to get up to around 10 a day. 
But the thing is most of the MS worms (W32/[EMAIL PROTECTED] in this case) that
are sending out the faked MS updates and forcing the undeliverable Mail
bounces are harvesting the e-mail address from the Outlook address book.

So, if any of you out there are using MS Lookout... I mean Outlook...
without a virus scanner, shame on you.

BTW: I haven't looked at the archives, but are the e-mail addresses
being munged?


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Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

[Steven Elling]

On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 17:47, Andrew Cowie wrote:
> On Sun, 2003-11-30 at 03:35, Renat Golubchyk wrote:
> > You can also use the "watch" command, e.g. "watch ps aux" would run "ps aux" 
> > every 2 seconds and display the results. If you want to run it every 30 
> > seconds just do "watch -n 30 ps aux". "man watch" for details. BTW, watch is 
> > in sys-apps/procps package, so you already have it.
> 
> This is fantastic. I've wanted a command like this for years. 
> 
> You know what I love about the *nix community? There are always things
> you don't know, but people out there will actually help and offer
> suggestions.
> 
> Thanks for the tip, Renat.
> 
> AfC
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And here is a poor man's watch in those cases where watch is not
available on the system your using:

while true; do clear; date; echo; ps aux; sleep 30; done


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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Harald Arnesen]

Jonas Widarsson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes:

> Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
> Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?

Not true.
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Re: [gentoo-user] Odd crashes

[Steven Elling]

On Sat, 2003-11-29 at 13:26, Jeff Smelser wrote:
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> On Saturday 29 November 2003 02:20 pm, Ernie Schroder wrote:
> > Thanks for the help so far... the box crashed again after about 3.5
> > hrs. Top and ps aux show nothing of help. Does anyone have any idea
> > of how else I can track this down?
> 
> Here is your problem, I had a kernel panic earlier today:
> 
> gateway root # dmesg | grep panic
> 
> syslog isn't good for that stuff. Your going to have to sit on a terminal 
> window and hope it happens.. Hopfully it shows a message coming up.


I do the following on my server and you can do the same if you're using
syslog:

Add the following to /etc/syslog.conf:

# Mirror all messages sent to syslog on VT 12.
*.* /dev/tty12


Add the following to /etc/conf.d/local.start

# Change to VT 12 on startup.
/usr/bin/chvt 12


I'm sure you can do the same with other system loggers but you will need
to read man pages to find out.


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[gentoo-user] CDRW, UDF on 2.6 Kernel??

[rdg]

Packet writting (cdrw & udf) was promised for the 2.6 kernel.  It was even
marked as merged, back in the 2.5 days.

Is anyone using this feature?  Does anyone know it's status?  Does anyone
know what I am talking about?

Thanks for any information...

-rdg

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Re: [gentoo-user] reiserfs undelete ?

[Steven Elling]

On Thu, 2003-11-27 at 23:25, Oliver Lange wrote:
> Well i have read an article about a topic called 'restformatierung' (German),
> which means something like 'remaining formatting'. If you physically open a
> harddisk and connect it to some special diagnostics equipment, it might be
> possible to find out how the magnetic particles on the disk have been before
> they were overwritten to the actual state, but this is not guarateed
> to work for all and every bit, and it requires very special equipment,
> and AFAIK, the harddisk itself is gone forever after doing that.
> 
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Here is some fodder:

Secure Deletion of Data from Magnetic and Solid-State Memory
Peter Gutmann
Department of Computer Science
University of Auckland

http://rootprompt.org/article.php3?article=473


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[gentoo-user] reiser, fsck

[Jonathan Stickel]

In switching from Red Hat to Gentoo, I have started using reiserfs 
rather than ext3 for my Linux partitions.  For ext3 partitions, I know 
how to make fsck run on boot (shutdown -F, or set the mount count with 
tune2fs).  Is there something analogous for reiser?  I think reiserfsck 
may be running every boot, but I'm not sure because it happens so fast; 
is this typical?

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jonathan Stickel]

daniel wrote:
On December 1, 2003 03:32 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote:

Jonas Widarsson wrote:

I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering
whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary
fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can keep the existing
winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of those 80 GB and then
have a dual boot XP / Gentoo?
Older Slackware Install CDs (and possible newer) distributed a utility
called fips that could split a FAT16/32 partition.


i think what you're looking for is gnu parted

  # emerge --search parted

should get you what you need

I would suggest QtParted (a gui for parted, 
http://qtparted.sourceforge.net/).  I've never used it, but it looks 
like it should work with FAT32.

As already mentioned, KNOPPIX would be helpful to get started since you 
can boot from it and will have a full set of gnu/linux tools available. 
 QtParted (and hence parted) are included with the latest KNOPPIX.

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[gentoo-user] Any gxine users?

[Mark Knecht]

Hi,
   Are there any gxine users here? What's your experience with it? 

   I'm having problems with most of the media locations in the preset
menus not working. I get many different technical messages about why
each one doesn't work, but basically most of them don't work. There are
a few that do work, so I'm pretty sure gxine itself is OK, but that
probably there are some libraries that need to be installed to make it
work better.

   Anyway, I couldn't find a list better than here to ask, so thanks for
letting me do so. If you know of a good list for gxine user questions,
please let me know.

Cheers,
Mark


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Re: [gentoo-user] too large vfat

[SN]

uuups sorrry guys what I meant is on some boards you have no chance to use
the space beyound 128GB.

You need a compatible bios that can adress more than 127GB.

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Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] too large vfat


> i have a 130gb fat32 filesystem, it wont get any bigger, why?
> :)
>
> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:18, Ben Anderson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to create a vfat fs larger than 8G.  I've read that I can't
do
> > this.  However, I just did it a few months ago on a different partition.
I
> > don't remember having this problem at that time.  Plus Windows does it,
> > right?  Here's my output:
> >
> > gentoo root # mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda3
> > mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
> > mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system
> >
> > from fdisk:
> > /dev/hda369  2501  19543072+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> >
> > any thoughts?
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
> >
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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[SN]

I feel sorry for you, those banks that use stupid plugins are slow in
loading time, my bank uses ssl connection, I can use any ssl capable
browsers, the cool thing is with konqueror and mozilla the site just looks
like using IE no crappy webdesign.



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Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 10:37 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.


> Tom Wesley wrote:
>
> > (Anyone jealous?)
>
> Haha
> I kinda felt gentoo users are mostly the kind that doesn't use windows
> at all, and dual boot for the sake of windows is something rare among
> this freedom loving crowd.
>
> I said before somewhere that I would toss windows out of the window if
> it wasn't for all the games for windows, everyone else using IE and my
> internet bank system doesn't support mozilla.
>
> Jonas
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Re: [gentoo-user] A good PCI modem that will work with Gentoo or Linux

[Marshal Newrock]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Christopher Lyon wrote:

> Can anybody recommend a good PCI internal modem that will work with
> Gentoo? I have found a couple of links out, idir.net/~. and they all
> seem to have outdated information. Any help would be appreciated.

Just make sure it says "hardware modem".  That said, I've had good luck
with USR modems.

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Ric Messier]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
> OH SHT!
> I didn't know of that!
> 

convert works well. been a while since i've used it. requires a reboot 
since it won't convert a live filesystem (needs to mount it read only to 
convert, iirc).

> Seems like doing it, but I'm suspicious about NTFS and the linux kernel.
> Has it got out of EXPERIMENTAL ?
> 

No, but I've used it off and on for a few years without incident. Of 
course, read-write is REALLY experimental. I think I've used that before 
too but it would have been a long time ago. Ahhh, but you want write 
support. I probably wouldn't recommend it. I'd be surprised if the Linux 
kernel driver has kept up with the latest version of NTFS given how the 
feature has never moved out of experimental to begin with.

> 
> And what about permissions in NTFS when XP doesn't even have a decent 
> way to manage it... Not like w2k anyway.
> maybe the GUI changes its behaviour when filesystem type changes?
> Yeah, I know. "discuss that somewhere else, kid."
> 

XP changes file system permissions says as W2K did. 

Ric


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RE: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jeffrey Smelser]

oppps, daniel did not write this, Jonas did.. Sorry daniel..

> > daniel wrote:
> > 
> > >
> > Well...
> > My bank uses a "security plugin" that only supports IE or 
> > Netscape 4 on 
> > mac or windows.
> > *ugly words*...
> 
> Are you sure? Mozilla supports netscape plugins... As well as 
> Konquorer

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Ric Messier]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Jonas Widarsson wrote:

> What?
> I'm pretty sure I was never given that option!

Would have been during the install. 
http://www.microsoft.com/windowsxp/home/using/howto/gettingstarted/guide/newinstallation.asp

> My XP is swedish, but it can't be about that, can it?
> 

I wouldn't think so. XP is XP. I've installed NT 4.0 in Japanese with a 
Japanese guy standing behind me for translations. Turns out I didn't need 
them. I had installed it so many times I knew what it said before he could 
read it to me. The installation was identical. Can't imagine it would have 
been any different with other languages.

Ric


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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jonas Widarsson]

Tom Wesley wrote:

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:57, Ric Messier wrote:
 

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
   

Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?
   

Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable...
 

Actually, I don't find it believable at all since I've installed XP Home a 
couple of times with NTFS. 

Ric
   

Given that, Jonas, have you tried `convert` from the command line?
 

OH SHT!
I didn't know of that!
Seems like doing it, but I'm suspicious about NTFS and the linux kernel.
Has it got out of EXPERIMENTAL ?
I lost a great deal of data using mandrake one year ago and writing one 
file to an NTFS partition. (it was backed up though)
All files disappeared. Folders left undestroyed.

And what about permissions in NTFS when XP doesn't even have a decent 
way to manage it... Not like w2k anyway.
maybe the GUI changes its behaviour when filesystem type changes?
Yeah, I know. "discuss that somewhere else, kid."

Jonas

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RE: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jeffrey Smelser]

> daniel wrote:
> 
> >
> Well...
> My bank uses a "security plugin" that only supports IE or 
> Netscape 4 on 
> mac or windows.
> *ugly words*...

Are you sure? Mozilla supports netscape plugins... As well as Konquorer

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Re: [gentoo-user] domainname

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perhaps you should try domainname -d (for DNS) or domainname -f (for FQDN)

domainname whitout an option returns afaik the NIS-/YP-Domainname ...
therefore (none) would be the corrcet answer on youre system, I think ...
Martin

Redeeman wrote:
did you configure /etc/hosts correct ?

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:58, Ted Ozolins wrote:

in issuing "domainname" it returns (none). I have domain blahblah.net in 
/etc/resolv.conf and the same in /etc/dnsdomainname but it still keeps 
returning (none) when queried. What have I not set? Querying for 
"hostname" returns the proper name.

TIA


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Re: [gentoo-user] filtering spam and MSTDs through POP

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Also you doesn't prefer IMAP - use UW-IMAP they have an POP-Server in 
their package too.  And at least the imap-server is configurable to use 
maildir and/or to search at '$HOME/.maildir'

you have to generate a file /etc/client.cf and '$HOME/.imaprc'  to get 
it working ...

I'm using uw-imap with maildirs and in $HOME/.mailfolders here  :-)

Martin


The mail account that I use for all my mailing lists is hosted on a 
friend's server. He doesn't want to take the time to setup a virus 
scanner or spamassassin on his box. Is there a way for me to run the 
mail I download from his via POP3 through f-prot, spamassassin, etc.? 
I'm currently using Mozilla Mail to download and would like to keep 
it that way. I was thinking about using fetchmail to download to a 
local account and then pointing Mozilla to a local POP3 server, but I 
still don't know how to run the downloaded mail through the filters. 
Can anyone help?


That looks just like what I need. Is there a POP3 server that will look 
at '$HOME/.maildir'? I prefer to use POP over IMAP.



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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Ric Messier]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, daniel wrote:
> 
> you'd be surprised at what mozilla would support.  you just have to get 
> mozilla to tell the site it's talking to that it's actually inernet exploder 
> running on windows xp ;-)  i use this trick to do much of my online banking 
> 'cause i know damn well that konqueror is more stable and secure than ie.  in 
> kde, all you have to do is "configure konqueror" and select "browser 
> identification" but i don't know what it would be in mozilla (though i'm sure 
> such an option exists).
> 

I've used that feature in Konqueror back when I used KDE. I do wish 
someone would come up with a useful alternate browser for Gnome (or non-DE 
systems) to Mozilla which really sucks rocks, IMO. I don't believe that 
such a feature exists for Mozilla. Why would Mozilla ever want to 
masquerade as another browser? :-)

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RE: [gentoo-user] too large vfat

[Jeffrey Smelser]

The Max size is 2TB... 

> that isnt true, because i have a 250gb usb hd, which has a 250gb fat32
> partition, but i just cant make a fat32 partition at my internal hd
> bigger than 130mb :(
> 
> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:32, SN wrote:
> > Maximum partition size of Fat32 is 128GB.
> > 
> > 

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jonas Widarsson]

Ric Messier wrote:

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
 

Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?
 

Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable...
   

Actually, I don't find it believable at all since I've installed XP Home a 
couple of times with NTFS. 

Ric
 

What?
I'm pretty sure I was never given that option!
My XP is swedish, but it can't be about that, can it?
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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jonas Widarsson]

daniel wrote:

On December 1, 2003 04:37 pm, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
 

I said before somewhere that I would toss windows out of the window if
it wasn't for all the games for windows, everyone else using IE and my
internet bank system doesn't support mozilla.
   

you'd be surprised at what mozilla would support.  you just have to get 
mozilla to tell the site it's talking to that it's actually inernet exploder 
running on windows xp ;-)  i use this trick to do much of my online banking 
'cause i know damn well that konqueror is more stable and secure than ie.  in 
kde, all you have to do is "configure konqueror" and select "browser 
identification" but i don't know what it would be in mozilla (though i'm sure 
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Well...
My bank uses a "security plugin" that only supports IE or Netscape 4 on 
mac or windows.
*ugly words*...

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Re: [gentoo-user] Cant Mount Cdrom to install packages from cd2 - O/T

[Jonas Widarsson]

Norbert Kamenicky wrote:

Please stop sending HTML messages.

Thanke you !

your html mail is sent with font size=1 from your microschrot,
so it's too small for reading
I am too to lazy to magnify it ... so I just ignore it
I think it should be a feature of the list system to kindly reply to the 
sender of an HTML mail to resend it without HTML before it gets all the 
way to the list subscribers, since it is several times bigger in size..
However, I don't know anything about mailing list systems or standards, 
and I'm starting to feel suspicious at my mailer aswell; mozilla 1.6a on 
winxphome.
So please, don't flame me if I'm like a little brother trying to make a 
clever statement... ('cause that's the way I feel :/)

Geee! Look at the size of that HTML e-mail...
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Re: [gentoo-user] trouble with usb storage and fetchmail

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anh le wrote:
Hello gentoo user n helper :)

I installed gentoo linux 1.4 on an i686 but have 2 troubles

1- USB storage (I have a 32 MB memory stick)
I have install scsi mod, sd_mod, usbcore, usb-storage
(everything needed that I once read from forum)
I modprobe everything seem to be ok
but when I mount
---
mount /dev/sda1 -t vfat /mnt/flash
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it fires back:
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mount: /dev/sda1 is not a valid block device
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then 
mknod /dev/sda1 b 8 1
also not helps

You need to rescan your SCSI-Bus for new devices (USB-Devies use the 
SCSI structur of th kernel ...

I do that job with a script from SuSE ... it is called rescan-scsi-bus.sh

here is it :
   http://www.garloff.de/kurt/linux/rescan-scsi-bus.sh
or have a look at google to find it
it creates for you the nodes and makes them usable ... (or update to 
Kernel 2.6 there is a new system which is working well ...)

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2. I installed fetchmail, wrote a fetchmailrc with fetchall option

First I run fetchmail -cv (normal user) to see it work, but all my fetched
mail go nowhere, 

I don't know where they've gone! already check /var/spool/mail/anh 

My email on server still all there.
Perhaps your own (local) mailserver doesn't accept that mails ?

I don't know. I used fetchmail a long time ago 

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Tom Wesley]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:57, Ric Messier wrote:
> On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
> > > >
> > > Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
> > > Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?
> > 
> > Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable...
> 
> Actually, I don't find it believable at all since I've installed XP Home a 
> couple of times with NTFS. 
> 
> Ric

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[daniel]

On December 1, 2003 04:37 pm, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
> I said before somewhere that I would toss windows out of the window if
> it wasn't for all the games for windows, everyone else using IE and my
> internet bank system doesn't support mozilla.

you'd be surprised at what mozilla would support.  you just have to get 
mozilla to tell the site it's talking to that it's actually inernet exploder 
running on windows xp ;-)  i use this trick to do much of my online banking 
'cause i know damn well that konqueror is more stable and secure than ie.  in 
kde, all you have to do is "configure konqueror" and select "browser 
identification" but i don't know what it would be in mozilla (though i'm sure 
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Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

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i thought about make an account for mailinglists too, but i didnt do it,
sadly :(

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:27, SN wrote:
> Yeah I have about 8 email accounts: work-related, private and so on, but
> this one really gets spammed heavily.I'm just happy, that I setup a mail
> adress only for the gentoo mailinglist, so I don't depend on this adress.
> I almost don't see any spam in those other accounts although I've been using
> them for years.I also think, that the freemail provider "lycos" sucks
> because he lets all thos spam viri to me.
> 
> 
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> 
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> > subscribing it startet, anyone else experienced this?
> >
> > if yes, then i recommend spamasassin for filtering it :D
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cant Mount Cdrom to install packages from cd2

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On Mon, 1 Dec 2003 15:17:34 -0500
"Alexander A. Koulouris" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:

> Hi all,
>  
> Having problem trying to emerge -k kde over the internet.  The belnet
> site, seems to halt the system and I can not complete the install.  I
> want to mount my cdrom so that I can install from the CD2 containing
> all the packages.  I have performed a gentoo install with stage3+grp
> (snapshot) so now I want to install the kde, gnome, koffice, etc.
>  
> I cant seem to get the cd to mount.
>  
A little more info would be helpful. Where are you in the install
process? Is the livecd still mounted? Are you in the chroot shell?

If this is a finished install, do you have an entry in fstab to support
the mount /mnt/cdrom? What error are you getting when you try to mount
the cd?

Try this:
mkdir /mnt/cdrom (should be there, but best to be sure)
mount /dev/cdrom /mnt/cdrom

This should mount the cdrom for you. Any error messages should give you
an idea of where the problem is.

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Ric Messier]

On Mon, 1 Dec 2003, Tom Wesley wrote:
> > >
> > Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
> > Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?
> 
> Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable...

Actually, I don't find it believable at all since I've installed XP Home a 
couple of times with NTFS. 

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RE: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Redeeman]

well my system is installed on ext3, but all my stuff is on fat32!

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:20, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
> Your using fat32 with linux?? 
> 
> I don't know what your doing over there, but your scaring me just listening to this..
> 
> If you think fat32 is better, so be it, but I have no idea how your getting by with 
> fat32 on a linux system.. 
> 
> Never loose files?? hmm...
> 
> > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:00, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
> > > What does it matter? Fat16/32 is the same no matter how big it is..
> > > 
> > > Its all crap.. :)
> > > 
> > 
> > fat32 is not crap, i still use it for all my files, ext2/3 
> > and reiserfs
> > is so insecure if you experience power failures, fat32 you never loose
> > your files. thats what i have experienced the hard way
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Re: [gentoo-user] too large vfat

[Redeeman]

that isnt true, because i have a 250gb usb hd, which has a 250gb fat32
partition, but i just cant make a fat32 partition at my internal hd
bigger than 130mb :(

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:32, SN wrote:
> Maximum partition size of Fat32 is 128GB.
> 
> 
> - Original Message - 
> From: "Redeeman" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> To: "Gentoo Maillinglist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:20 PM
> Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] too large vfat
> 
> 
> > i have a 130gb fat32 filesystem, it wont get any bigger, why?
> > :)
> >
> > On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:18, Ben Anderson wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > > I'm trying to create a vfat fs larger than 8G.  I've read that I can't
> do
> > > this.  However, I just did it a few months ago on a different partition.
> I
> > > don't remember having this problem at that time.  Plus Windows does it,
> > > right?  Here's my output:
> > >
> > > gentoo root # mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda3
> > > mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
> > > mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system
> > >
> > > from fdisk:
> > > /dev/hda369  2501  19543072+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> > >
> > > any thoughts?
> > > Thanks,
> > > Ben
> > >
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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jonas Widarsson]

Tom Wesley wrote:

(Anyone jealous?)
Haha
I kinda felt gentoo users are mostly the kind that doesn't use windows 
at all, and dual boot for the sake of windows is something rare among 
this freedom loving crowd.

I said before somewhere that I would toss windows out of the window if 
it wasn't for all the games for windows, everyone else using IE and my 
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Re: [gentoo-user] too large vfat

[SN]

Maximum partition size of Fat32 is 128GB.


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To: "Gentoo Maillinglist" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:20 PM
Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] too large vfat


> i have a 130gb fat32 filesystem, it wont get any bigger, why?
> :)
>
> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 12:18, Ben Anderson wrote:
> > Hi,
> > I'm trying to create a vfat fs larger than 8G.  I've read that I can't
do
> > this.  However, I just did it a few months ago on a different partition.
I
> > don't remember having this problem at that time.  Plus Windows does it,
> > right?  Here's my output:
> >
> > gentoo root # mkfs -t vfat /dev/hda3
> > mkfs.vfat 2.8 (28 Feb 2001)
> > mkfs.vfat: Attempting to create a too large file system
> >
> > from fdisk:
> > /dev/hda369  2501  19543072+   c  Win95 FAT32 (LBA)
> >
> > any thoughts?
> > Thanks,
> > Ben
> >
> > _
> > Groove on the latest from the hot new rock groups!  Get downloads,
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> > and more here.  http://special.msn.com/entertainment/wiredformusic.armx
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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jonas Widarsson]

Jonas Widarsson wrote:

... and I'll try fips from my mandrake CD tomorrow or later this week.
...or whatever suitable utility that is suggested by mandrake install...

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Re: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user

[SN]

Yeah I have about 8 email accounts: work-related, private and so on, but
this one really gets spammed heavily.I'm just happy, that I setup a mail
adress only for the gentoo mailinglist, so I don't depend on this adress.
I almost don't see any spam in those other accounts although I've been using
them for years.I also think, that the freemail provider "lycos" sucks
because he lets all thos spam viri to me.




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Sent: Monday, December 01, 2003 4:14 PM
Subject: [gentoo-user] spam after subscribing to gentoo-user


> hi, before i subscriped to this list i got no spam at all, but after
> subscribing it startet, anyone else experienced this?
>
> if yes, then i recommend spamasassin for filtering it :D
>
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Re: [gentoo-user] Cant Mount Cdrom to install packages from cd2

[Norbert Kamenicky]

Please stop sending HTML messages.

Thanke you !

your html mail is sent with font size=1 from your microschrot,
so it's too small for reading
I am too to lazy to magnify it ... so I just ignore it


Alexander A. Koulouris wrote:

Hi all,

Having problem trying to emerge –k kde over the internet. The belnet 
site, seems to halt the system and I can not complete the install. I 
want to mount my cdrom so that I can install from the CD2 containing 
all the packages. I have performed a gentoo install with stage3+grp 
(snapshot) so now I want to install the kde, gnome, koffice, etc…

I cant seem to get the cd to mount.

Help please!

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Tom Wesley]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:17, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
> Tom Wesley wrote:
> 
> >On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:16, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
> >  
> >
> >>I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
> >>I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
> >>I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering 
> >>whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary 
> >>fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can keep the existing 
> >>winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of those 80 GB and then 
> >>have a dual boot XP / Gentoo?
> >>
> >>If so, what utility is recommended?
> >>
> >>Jonas
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> >I believe Windows XP can do this itself.  If you right click on My
> >Computer, select Manage there is disk management in there.  I don't have
> >an XP machine to hand, so I can't check.  
> >
> Well, Couldn't do anything there.
> Running XP home by default from Acer. Maybe that functionality is 
> disabled...

I have to confess to not having a single XP Home PC.

> 
> >Whilst you're there you'd be
> >better running XP on NTFS, as it really is quicker, but keep in mind the
> >relatively limited NTFS write support Linux currently has.
> >  
> >
> Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
> Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?

Err, I'm surprised, but somehow I find it believable...

> 
> >(If you need to share data between the XP and Linux it is very normal to
> >have an NTFS Windows partition, FAT32 data partition and ext2/3, reiser
> >etc for Linux.)
> >  
> >
> Sounds reasonable.
> 
> Maybe I should tell you that I have done this before, with disks a LOT 
> smaller than this one and utilities bundled with the distro (mandrake).
> This is why I'm a little careful. I am not so sure whether the drive 
> size affects the result of a fips operation.
> 
> And that's why I would like to see someone already tested this on newer 
> systems.
> It took me some decent amount of time to setup the XP environment to 
> suit my needs, so I wouldn't want to do that again unless I have to.

Although it's NTFS support isn't great, you might like to take a look at
partimage to take a backup before you change anything.  Although it will
only be useful if you have somewhere the laptop can put the backup
image, another network-get-at-able Linux PC should be fine.

If you need boot CD's with it on, try Knoppix.  Other than that I should
probably stick my nose out, as I have little XP Home experience. 
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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jonas Widarsson]

Jonas Widarsson wrote:

Redeeman wrote:

an application for windows called partition magic can do it, but it isnt
free, i dont know if an evaluation version exists, else cd 1 of mandrake
linux is REALLY good for partitioning
 

Ok, I'll investigate that, since I have some old mandrake CDs at hand. 
Or at work actually ;) Can't do it now...

Jonas

OK I won't do it tonight anyway, so let this mail thread sleep for now, 
and I'll try fips from my mandrake CD tomorrow or later this week.
Thanks so far.

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RE: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jeffrey Smelser]

Your using fat32 with linux?? 

I don't know what your doing over there, but your scaring me just listening to this..

If you think fat32 is better, so be it, but I have no idea how your getting by with 
fat32 on a linux system.. 

Never loose files?? hmm...

> On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:00, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
> > What does it matter? Fat16/32 is the same no matter how big it is..
> > 
> > Its all crap.. :)
> > 
> 
> fat32 is not crap, i still use it for all my files, ext2/3 
> and reiserfs
> is so insecure if you experience power failures, fat32 you never loose
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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jonas Widarsson]

Tom Wesley wrote:

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:16, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
 

I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering 
whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary 
fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can keep the existing 
winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of those 80 GB and then 
have a dual boot XP / Gentoo?

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I believe Windows XP can do this itself.  If you right click on My
Computer, select Manage there is disk management in there.  I don't have
an XP machine to hand, so I can't check.  

Well, Couldn't do anything there.
Running XP home by default from Acer. Maybe that functionality is 
disabled...

Whilst you're there you'd be
better running XP on NTFS, as it really is quicker, but keep in mind the
relatively limited NTFS write support Linux currently has.
 

Well... XP home does not support NTFS.
Believe it or not. MS philosophy is great isn' it?
(If you need to share data between the XP and Linux it is very normal to
have an NTFS Windows partition, FAT32 data partition and ext2/3, reiser
etc for Linux.)
 

Sounds reasonable.

Maybe I should tell you that I have done this before, with disks a LOT 
smaller than this one and utilities bundled with the distro (mandrake).
This is why I'm a little careful. I am not so sure whether the drive 
size affects the result of a fips operation.

And that's why I would like to see someone already tested this on newer 
systems.
It took me some decent amount of time to setup the XP environment to 
suit my needs, so I wouldn't want to do that again unless I have to.

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Re: [gentoo-user] domainname

[Redeeman]

did you configure /etc/hosts correct ?

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:58, Ted Ozolins wrote:
> in issuing "domainname" it returns (none). I have domain blahblah.net in 
> /etc/resolv.conf and the same in /etc/dnsdomainname but it still keeps 
> returning (none) when queried. What have I not set? Querying for 
> "hostname" returns the proper name.
> 
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RE: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Redeeman]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 22:00, Jeffrey Smelser wrote:
> What does it matter? Fat16/32 is the same no matter how big it is..
> 
> Its all crap.. :)
> 

fat32 is not crap, i still use it for all my files, ext2/3 and reiserfs
is so insecure if you experience power failures, fat32 you never loose
your files. thats what i have experienced the hard way

> Should work just fine as long as the program doesn't limit itself.
> 
> > However, I wonder if that software is up to date. They are talking 
> > windows 95 and stuff on that homepage. Does it work even though my 
> > harddrive is as big as 80 GB?
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> in issuing "domainname" it returns (none). I have domain blahblah.net
> in 
> /etc/resolv.conf and the same in /etc/dnsdomainname but it still keeps
> 
> returning (none) when queried. What have I not set? Querying for 
> "hostname" returns the proper name.
> 

did you add "domainname" to the default runlevel?

rc-update add domainname default
/etc/init.d/domainname start

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RE: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jeffrey Smelser]

What does it matter? Fat16/32 is the same no matter how big it is..

Its all crap.. :)

Should work just fine as long as the program doesn't limit itself.

> However, I wonder if that software is up to date. They are talking 
> windows 95 and stuff on that homepage. Does it work even though my 
> harddrive is as big as 80 GB?

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Tom Wesley]

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 20:16, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
> I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
> I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
> I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering 
> whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary 
> fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can keep the existing 
> winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of those 80 GB and then 
> have a dual boot XP / Gentoo?
> 
> If so, what utility is recommended?
> 
> Jonas
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I believe Windows XP can do this itself.  If you right click on My
Computer, select Manage there is disk management in there.  I don't have
an XP machine to hand, so I can't check.  Whilst you're there you'd be
better running XP on NTFS, as it really is quicker, but keep in mind the
relatively limited NTFS write support Linux currently has.

(If you need to share data between the XP and Linux it is very normal to
have an NTFS Windows partition, FAT32 data partition and ext2/3, reiser
etc for Linux.)

PS:  Don't forget to create the swap partition, I'm always doing that...

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[gentoo-user] domainname

[Ted Ozolins]

in issuing "domainname" it returns (none). I have domain blahblah.net in 
/etc/resolv.conf and the same in /etc/dnsdomainname but it still keeps 
returning (none) when queried. What have I not set? Querying for 
"hostname" returns the proper name.

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jonas Widarsson]

Redeeman wrote:

an application for windows called partition magic can do it, but it isnt
free, i dont know if an evaluation version exists, else cd 1 of mandrake
linux is REALLY good for partitioning
 

Ok, I'll investigate that, since I have some old mandrake CDs at hand. 
Or at work actually ;) Can't do it now...

Jonas

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:16, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
 

I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering 
whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary 
fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can keep the existing 
winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of those 80 GB and then 
have a dual boot XP / Gentoo?

If so, what utility is recommended?

Jonas

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jonas Widarsson]

Andrew Gaffney wrote:

Jonas Widarsson wrote:

I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm 
wondering whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 
GB primary fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can 
keep the existing winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of 
those 80 GB and then have a dual boot XP / Gentoo?


Older Slackware Install CDs (and possible newer) distributed a utility 
called fips that could split a FAT16/32 partition.

http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/

Danke

However, I wonder if that software is up to date. They are talking 
windows 95 and stuff on that homepage. Does it work even though my 
harddrive is as big as 80 GB?

Jonas

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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Redeeman]

an application for windows called partition magic can do it, but it isnt
free, i dont know if an evaluation version exists, else cd 1 of mandrake
linux is REALLY good for partitioning

On Mon, 2003-12-01 at 21:16, Jonas Widarsson wrote:
> I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
> I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
> I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering 
> whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary 
> fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can keep the existing 
> winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of those 80 GB and then 
> have a dual boot XP / Gentoo?
> 
> If so, what utility is recommended?
> 
> Jonas
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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[daniel]

On December 1, 2003 03:32 pm, Andrew Gaffney wrote:
> Jonas Widarsson wrote:
> > I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
> > I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
> > I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering
> > whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary
> > fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can keep the existing
> > winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of those 80 GB and then
> > have a dual boot XP / Gentoo?
>
> Older Slackware Install CDs (and possible newer) distributed a utility
> called fips that could split a FAT16/32 partition.

i think what you're looking for is gnu parted

  # emerge --search parted

should get you what you need


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Re: [gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Andrew Gaffney]

Jonas Widarsson wrote:
I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering 
whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary 
fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can keep the existing 
winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of those 80 GB and then 
have a dual boot XP / Gentoo?
Older Slackware Install CDs (and possible newer) distributed a utility called fips that 
could split a FAT16/32 partition.

http://www.igd.fhg.de/~aschaefe/fips/

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[gentoo-user] Cant Mount Cdrom to install packages from cd2

[Alexander A. Koulouris]

Hi all,

 

Having problem trying to emerge –k
kde over the internet.  The belnet site, seems to halt the system and I can not complete the
install.  I want to mount my cdrom so that I can install from the CD2 containing all the
packages.  I have performed a gentoo install with stage3+grp (snapshot) so now I want to
install the kde, gnome, koffice,
etc…

 

I cant seem to get the cd to mount.

 

Help please!

 

Axeios

[gentoo-user] split a fat32 partition on my laptop.

[Jonas Widarsson]

I have an Acer Aspire 1703 SM laptop.
I think the HD is an ordinary one, like those in stationary computers.
I don't know much about how todays harddrives behave, so I'm wondering 
whether someone has recent experience in splitting the 80 GB primary 
fat23 partition (the only partition there is) so I can keep the existing 
winXP home install and install gentoo on the end of those 80 GB and then 
have a dual boot XP / Gentoo?

If so, what utility is recommended?

Jonas

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