Re: [gentoo-user] Install Advice
Mike Adolf wrote: I have been using Linux for several years, but am new to gentoo. I just got a new dell xps 410 system with a intel duo E6400 processor. I have tried all the distros I've used in the past, kubuntu, suse, mandriva. All had problems serious enough to not use them. The problems may stem from using prebuilt x86 distros. Maybe since gentoo is built during install it might have a better chance. What would be the 'best' medium for me, minimal or live CD? I have a high speed connection. Two avoid a typical dual boot install. I would like gentoo to boot from my second hard drive. During boot up, I can now select which HD I want to boot from. Will the install process let me assign a boot disk? Thanks, Mike The install process of Gentoo is much different from the other distros that you mentioned. Basically the install is done from the command line. You partition your disks yourself, you create the filesystem, install the basic packages, configure the configuration files with nano or something, etc. It's not hard, its just intensive. To answer your question, yes you can install to your just your 2nd HDD. You can opt to install GRUB or LILO where ever you wish leaving the previous bootloader on the MBR intact. As to the medium. I use the minimal personally. The Live has an automated installer but I've never been able to get it to work. Read this, it will be your best friend during the install... http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/index.xml Hope this helps. Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
[gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Hi. I'm looking for a portable (Linux, *BSD, Mac, Win) way to carry around encrypted files on a USB drive. I would like for the encryption/decryption to be transparent to me, so something that I can mount would be great. I know pretty much how to do encrypted file systems on Linux, but don't know of a way to do it under Windows that would be compatible. Something with AES256 or better would be preferable. Mac compatibility is not too much of an issue at the moment, but I do plan to buy one in the future. Thanks much. Thomas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFx50UUej1z0ta0fkRCO+rAKDRK1W+yw0+6Sw/jAMRzqAY8JmhbQCgw8lE p+2qX9QqJsOWpYSvxZ0JWyA= =kTJz -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Encrypt USB flash drive
Andrew MacKenzie wrote: Hi. I'm looking for a portable (Linux, *BSD, Mac, Win) way to carry around encrypted files on a USB drive. I would like for the encryption/decryption to be transparent to me, so something that I can mount would be great. I know pretty much how to do encrypted file systems on Linux, but don't know of a way to do it under Windows that would be compatible. Something with AES256 or better would be preferable. Mac compatibility is not too much of an issue at the moment, but I do plan to buy one in the future. Thanks much. I've been using truecrypt between Windows and Linux for just this purpose and it works great. Not so sure about MacOS though. emerge app-crypt/truecrypt http://www.truecrypt.org/ Seems to be exactly what I'm looking for. I'll start implementing tomorrow morning. Maybe by the time I get a Mac it will have been ported. Thanks! Thomas -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Hard Drive Crash - Please Help
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Grant wrote: Hello, I woke up this morning and turned on my laptop to find that it no longer boots. It initially hung on starting hald, and once I prevented hald from starting it hung on gdm, and once I prevented gdm from starting I could log in as root but vi failed with a Bus error. I booted a LiveCD, mounted /dev/hda3, and chrooted, but running env-update then caused all kinds of drive errors. I'd like to save the hard drive so I don't have to buy a new one and build a new system on it, but if that's not possible I'd definitely like to save my personal data from the drive. I'm busy/stupid enough to have made no backups and all of my photos etc. are on the drive. I successfully wrote an iso of some important files after booting up normally (minus hald, X, and vi) so that's good. Is there a utility I can run on the disk to see if there is permanent damage? Should I try re-emerging packages that are having trouble or should I try to emerge -e world? I suppose I should see if I can write and burn iso's of everything in /home/grant/ right away. Is there a good way to get a bunch of data into multiple iso's that are each no larger than 650MB? Also, I've read man mkisofs and experimented before with trying to preserve filenames perfectly but it never comes out quite right. Can anyone recommend mkisofs options for preserving filenames perfectly? Thanks for your time. - Grant This _may_ help... http://www.partimage.org/Main_Page but I've never used it in this case. I would defiantly try to put the HDD in another computer and make an image of it with ddrescue. Other than that I would say to make a tarball of your home dir and use split to break it down into CD size pieces if you can. That would take care of the file name preservation. Plus you could use gzip to compress. This is of course if you have room to work with the files. If you could hook a removable HDD to the laptop that would be spiffy. Checking the disk for problems? I would use the manufactures proprietary utilities for that. Something you can put on a bootable CD or floppy. Thomas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFuOdIUej1z0ta0fkRCCYuAJ96Faf8h2LSZ6icqB9JBm6IKyZ3QwCfUceR t4ml8r+okhEfW0TD4uq9mQ0= =7VZt -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] slightly ot
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Good morning! I am looking to back up my dvd collection and have dvdrip but i have a lot of dvd's which are encrypted which poses a problem is there any way to get around this. (i know all this could be slightly less than 100% legal, but considering i own all copies i figure a backup isn't an issue). any suggestions would be greatly appreciated. thanks in advance kel Sent via BlackBerry® from Vodafone media-libs/libdvdcss is a library you might want to look at. portage's description says A portable abstraction library for DVD decryption. Ive had no experience with it but this should be a step in the right direction. -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFsjEnUej1z0ta0fkRCLJOAKCTKDtPZmByyyoT22kyVrWfo9xg/wCgrSxh 3mYDFj7Lb5AUwS8V/It8gBQ= =wWp1 -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Setting up a home router
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Honestly for making a router ShoreWall really helps out. Shorewall is basically a set of scripts that read configuration files that you set up and then interacts with iptables for you. http://www.shorewall.net/ http://www.shorewall.net/shorewall_quickstart_guide.htm Thomas -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFFqtFkUej1z0ta0fkRCMMTAKCM61IGDuf4rQZgyQLtHqCRZJfeGgCfRyxA Az/lP6UnXA8eOQ+M3MS3SEo= =81WU -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
Re: [gentoo-user] Need help networking two machines.
Dale wrote: Daniel Iliev wrote: Dale wrote: Hi I have done this before. Maybe something has changed because I can not get it to work now. My main rig is called smoker. The second rig is currently booted off the CD. I plan to use my main rig to sync and get distfiles off of. This is off smokers /etc/conf.d/net file: snip Can someone tell me what I am doing wrong? It has to be me. It almost always is. Thanks for the help. Dale :-) :-) :-) Hi, Dale I suspect you don't have a proper module for your network card loaded into the kernel. Is the interface of rig-2 up? What does ifconfig eth0 say? When I type in ifconfig, it says it is up and running fine with the correct address and all. lsmod shows the module is loaded. It is the correct module as far as I can tell. It's the 8139 module. When I ping from the CD booted computer to smoker, I see data in gkrellm on smoker on eth0. It's getting there. I think iptables is blocking me or something as silly as that. Any ideas? Dale :-) :-) :-) -- www.myspace.com/dalek1967 I stole this from here: http://web.onetel.net.uk/~showerail/firewall_disabling.html If its iptables then this should work... iptables -F iptables -t nat -F iptables -P INPUT ACCEPT iptables -P FORWARD ACCEPT iptables -P OUTPUT ACCEPT -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list
