Re: [gentoo-amd64] firewall

2005-12-22 Thread Gavin Seddon
It's alright for some. I eat lunch with a couple of dogs (canine). Gavin On Wed, 2005-12-21 at 09:01 -0800, Steve Herber wrote: > I would recommend you use Shorewall for an easy way to configure and > manage you iptables based linux firewall. The documentation is excellent. > Plus, I like to

[gentoo-amd64] Problems at reboot

2005-12-22 Thread Peter Martin
On my installation from CD I've gotten to '10c Rebooting the system' code listing 9, from the manual. When I performed the 'umount' command as indicated, the response is; "error writing /etc/mtab.tmp: no space left on device" It looked to me as if it was trying to write to the CD. Also the CD d

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems at reboot

2005-12-22 Thread Drake Donahue
pull the plug :-) or ctrl-alt-del or hold power button till it shuts down or reset button -- no mercy reset bios boot order while restarting to unkink the cd probably a result of previous adventure - Original Message - From: "Peter Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, Dec

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started

2005-12-22 Thread Peter Martin
I think I still may have a problem linked to previous on this thread. I just did an 'df -h' and realized that it tells me; /dev/hda3 73G 1.6G 68G3% /mnt/gentoo /dev/hda1 73G 1.6G 68G 3% /mnt/gentoo/boot It looks as if the 2 partitions are actually one? hda1 should onl

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started

2005-12-22 Thread Drake Donahue
yeeesss, what does partition table look like in fdisk? - Original Message - From: "Peter Martin" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: Sent: Thursday, December 22, 2005 6:00 PM Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started I think I still may have a problem linked to previous on this thread

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems getting started

2005-12-22 Thread Drake Donahue
probably df is reporting information per "mounted filesystem" which includes both partitions /dev/hda3 and /dev/hda1 (mounted as /mnt/gentoo and /mnt/gentoo/boot respectively but still only one "mounted filesystem") and this is not a problem. - Original Message - From: "Drake Donahue" <

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems at reboot

2005-12-22 Thread Peter Martin
Hi Drake Drake Donahue wrote: pull the plug :-) or ctrl-alt-del or hold power button till it shuts down or reset button -- no mercy reset bios boot order while restarting to unkink the cd probably a result of previous adventure I took your drastic advice. I got the CD out rather than touch

Re: [gentoo-amd64] Problems at reboot

2005-12-22 Thread Drake Donahue
the "password failed" events were pursuant to handbook section 8.c. ? try: login root password whatever you were trying to enter and reenter when you saw "password failed" that failing try just hitting return key at password prompt all failing boot cd, mount partitions at /mnt/gentoo /mnt/gen