[gentoo-amd64] Messed up my installation

2007-05-04 Thread Kevin Philp
I think I have made a mess of my installation, but I think its recoverable. I installed Gentoo AMD64 from the minimal install disk. Next I installed X, gdm and gnome. All went well with the exception of the MS core fonts which threw a checksum error when the trying to install andale.exe. I

[gentoo-amd64] Problems with 32 bit binaries

2006-02-21 Thread Kevin Philp
I am running a ~amd64 system and I update the system every few days with emerge sync emerge -uavDN world Over the weekend I found that Firefox, Thunderbird and openoffice all broke down and threw seg fault errors. All of these were installed as binaries. I removed thunderbird and installed

Re: [gentoo-amd64] hardcore newbie

2006-01-24 Thread Kevin Philp
Not sure but in the past acpi/apic caused problems and sometimes you had to boot with some options. When the cd starts you should get the option to add some extra lines to the boot process (press F1, F2 and read the help). Something like: noapic nolapic acpi=off I don't think its your

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-20 Thread Kevin Philp
I am afraid I am slightly lost now. To log into the ssh server with a password you need the following: 1. Server running and accepting password logins - some don't accept passwords but only accept rsa/dsa keys - it depends on the setup. 2. You can see the server and the ssh port from the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-19 Thread Kevin Philp
is your firewall machine actually called firewall? ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] uses ssh to login user root into a machine called firewall. I guess you actually need ssh [EMAIL PROTECTED] On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:56, Gavin Seddon wrote: Hi, In the instructions for fwbuilder to test the

Re: [gentoo-amd64] ssh fwbuilder

2006-01-19 Thread Kevin Philp
Probably not. Its usually [EMAIL PROTECTED] so I am guessing its something like [EMAIL PROTECTED] Log into a terminal on the ssh server and hostname will give you the info. On my machine I get: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ hostname server.cybercolloids.office [EMAIL PROTECTED]:~ hostname -s server