Re: [gentoo-user] LiveUSB

2008-01-23 Thread 443-653-1569
Wow!

Didn't know it would be that simple, I've always had trouble with live usb
in the past, guess I'll give it a try.

Bill Roberts

On 23:47 Tue 22 Jan , Jason Dusek wrote:
> Posted -- please let me know what you think:
> 
> http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_LiveUSB
> 
> -- 
> _jsn
> -- 
> gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org mailing list


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Re: [gentoo-user] BIG-UPDATE! ;) If I survive, then gentoo rulezz... :)

2008-02-03 Thread 443-653-1569
On 09:28 Sun 03 Feb , Dirk Heinrichs wrote:
> Am Samstag, 2. Februar 2008 schrieb maxim wexler:
> 
> > At the end of an emerge process I saw two
> > recommendations: etc-update and ?-update. The exact
> > name escapes me and I can't find it in the logs. It
> > seems pretty significant with 100+ updates pending. Do
> > you recall the full name?
> 
> cfg-update, maybe? So far the best Gentoo config file updater I've used.
> 
> HTH...
> 
>   Dirk

I've tried all the updaters and I also recommend cfg-update.

Bill Roberts


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Re: [gentoo-user] load too high

2008-02-12 Thread 443-653-1569
On 23:27 Mon 11 Feb , Miguel Peña Gomez wrote:
> 
> 
> atop 3
> 
> filter by "p"
> 
> 
> 
> El lun, 11-02-2008 a las 19:49 +, James escribió:
> > Hello,
> > 
> > One of the workstations (amd64 2gig ram) has a load that never drops below
> > 1.0, as seen by top. Looking at a ps nothing stands out. I did notice that
> > 'X' is at the top of the list, even when the machine is quiescent (nobody
> > doing anything). Suspiciaous. Clearly I have a run away or hidden process 
> > using
> > resources. Although all my system run kde 3.5.8 only one shows this problem.
> > 
> > None of my other Gentoo system suffer this fate. Any ideas on finding the
> > culprit(proccess)?

WOW!!, this atop program is great, one of the best diagnostic tools I've
seen. Why haven't I heard more about it?

Bill Roberts


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Re: [gentoo-user] layman -L does not show ecatmur, but I can layman -a ecatmur.

2008-02-13 Thread 443-653-1569
On 09:38 Wed 13 Feb , Mark David Dumlao wrote:
> On Feb 12, 2008 10:52 PM, Willie Wong <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> On Tue, Feb 12, 2008 at 05:37:16PM +0800, Penguin Lover Mark David Dumlao
> squawked:
> > TOTALLY WEIRD.  I do a layman -L on my machine and strangely enough,
> ecatmur
> > isn't listed.  I think I've used it beore on layman though, so I look up
> the
> > overlays listing on the gentoo overlays list, here:
> > http://www.gentoo.org/proj/en/overlays/layman-global.txt
> >
> > Sure enough, ecatmur is present.  So I just blindly go layman -a ecatmur
> and
> > he gets added.
> 
> Did you run layman --fetch to update the overlays?
> 
> yep, and I'm still getting nothing doing with layman -L.

This may be related. I just installed layman, and the only thing I get when
I run "layman -L" is 

* swegener  [Rsync ] (source:\
* rsync://rsync.gentoo.steal...)

Could this be a networking/firewall problem?

Bill Roberts


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