Re: [arch-general] Image my installed Arch into a USB pendrive

2010-08-03 Thread Michael Towers
2010/8/3 jesse jaara jesse.ja...@gmail.com: check out http://larch.berlios.de/, I think that tool is written for just this use case. Dieter Doesent larch just create a new arch linux install, if i understood Martín he wants to move his whole current system to usb. It depends what he

Re: [arch-general] cdrtools again... yay! - Was: Burning From Command Line

2010-05-27 Thread Michael Towers
This used to be about free sharing of code, but now we need lawyers involved just to do that? Whenever a lawyer is involved, there is certainly no freedom, just random blabla that nobody understands. I think you've hit the nail on the head there, Thomas. We should never lose sight of basic

Re: [arch-general] final release candidate images for testing

2010-05-16 Thread Michael Towers
2010/5/15 Dries De Smet driesdes...@gmail.com: archlinux-2010.05.13-netinstall-i686.iso , installed on asus 1005 HA, from usb stick, everything went fine. Just didn't detect wireless with kernel 2.6.32, but that's solved after updating. Are you using 2.6.32 on the isos? I suppose you don't

Re: [arch-general] initramfs: execute own script

2010-01-22 Thread Michael Towers
I guess you'll need to replace kinit, or else include the mount command in your own script and skip the normal mount command. Looking at how something like this is handled in the hooks in archiso or larch might help you.

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Towers
When I got a new laptop I investigated this problem a little and found that with hdparm -B 254/255 the temperature went up quite significantly. This may be a freak and I would love to know whether there really is something behind it, but when I used -B 200 the temperature increase was clearly

Re: [arch-general] [arch-dev-public] Load_Cycle_Count and storage-fixup

2009-10-29 Thread Michael Towers
Given the difficulty of finding the optimal solution to this problem, I think I agree with the earlier suggestion to just monitor the situation and report to the user if there is a problem - and provide a useful account of how to handle it. I imagine it would not be too difficult to write cron

Re: [arch-general] Netbook recommendations

2009-09-28 Thread Michael Towers
I have a a white eee 1005HA-M (matt screen, missing one or two things, e.g. I think it has no bluetooth, which I don't need anyway). It has some good points and some not so good, though I haven't tested everything. Arch installed with no problems at all, except that the ethernet is a bit fiddly -

[arch-general] libarchive - bsdtar producing weird archives?

2009-05-27 Thread Michael Towers
The result of a makepkg run produced what looked like a totally garbled package, when viewed in mc's virtual file system. That led me to investigate a bit, so I tried packing up a few directories with bsdtar and sometimes got similarly garbled results. However, unpacking worked completely

Re: [arch-general] poll: udev uevents settle wait time

2008-05-28 Thread Michael Towers
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Wed, May 28, 2008 at 11:12 PM, Karolina Lindqvist [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: måndagen den 19 maj 2008 skrev Dimitrios Apostolou: Let me start with a P3 800MHz I have running arch. Normal wait time: ~11.5s acpi=off wait time: ~5s What about yours? Toshiba laptop,

[arch-general] aufs with kernel 2.6.25

2008-05-25 Thread Michael Towers
Hi there, Is anyone else having problems with aufs and the new kernel (2.6.25.4-1, i686)? Here it is a bit of a disaster - I mount it and that was the end of the session, no message, complete system lock up, hard reset necessary. Here is my simple test script: ## run as

[arch-general] Package group xorg-video-drivers: intel conflict

2007-12-08 Thread Michael Towers
Since the addition of xf86-video-intel it has become impossible to install the xorg-video-drivers group via the group name (because of the conflict with xf86-video-i810). I guess there is no guideline outlawing this - I suppose something like this could, theoretically, happen more often. But it

Re: [arch-general] Kernel Module Package Guidelines

2007-12-02 Thread Michael Towers
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Dec 1, 2007 12:10 AM, Michael Towers [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I recently posted a feature request for the aufs dependency on aufs-utils to be removed (because the latter is not necessary for using aufs). The bug was closed by the maintainer because

Re: [arch-general] Kernel Module Package Guidelines

2007-12-02 Thread Michael Towers
Aaron Griffin wrote: On Dec 2, 2007 6:19 PM, Robert Emil Berge [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Sun, 2 Dec 2007 15:23:57 -0600 Aaron Griffin [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I still can't understand why this is a problem though... according to pacman, the installed size is 12K, and the only

[arch-general] Kernel Module Package Guidelines

2007-11-30 Thread Michael Towers
I recently posted a feature request for the aufs dependency on aufs-utils to be removed (because the latter is not necessary for using aufs). The bug was closed by the maintainer because This is the standard way of packaging modules in Arch: