RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
Ahh - in the compose window! That little "feature" of Outlook has always annoyed me. They need Evolution for Windows :) (or I need to find out how to install mtools off the liveCD so I can get my wireless card working!) Thanks for the tip, - Brent > -Original Message- > From: Van Eps,

RE: [gentoo-user] /tmp not empty at boot time

2003-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
I don't know what anyone else does here, but I use tmpwatch to clear that stuff.. its in portage... I set /var /var/tmp /usr/distfiles. None of those directories on my system ever get out of hand. > Hi, > > At boot time I see a message that /tmp en /vat/tmp are being cleared, > but I still fin

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Van Eps, Nathan D. (James Tower)
In the format menu, just click "plain text". It will convert an html email to plain text. As far as I know, there isn't an option that forces outlook to always use plain text. So I have to use the menu every time. >-Original Message- >From: Brent L Johnson > >I am only sending text mails t

[gentoo-user] /tmp not empty at boot time

2003-11-03 Thread Patrick Marquetecken
Hi, At boot time I see a message that /tmp en /vat/tmp are being cleared, but I still find files from months ago in there. Is this normal?, I would say no, but how do i fix this? Patrick -- "The needs of the many outweigh the needs of the few." Captain Spock in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan

RE: [gentoo-user] Booting Cdrom from floppy?

2003-11-03 Thread Matthew Baxa
On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 09:18, Jeffrey Smelser wrote: > > see man grub / info grub > > > > Actually, I found a boot manager that boots anything.. Works much better than grub.. > > Thanks anyways > > -- > [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list And this boot manager would be...? -- Matthew Baxa <[EMAIL P

RE: [gentoo-user] LiveCD and Mtools

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
Hmmm - I copied them as it said under section 25 of the installation document: cp -a /mnt/cdrom/packages/* /usr/portage/packages/ I don't see an mtools package located in the packages/All directory. The only one I find is in: /usr/portage/app-admin/mtools Should I be pulling the mtools from so

RE: [gentoo-user] Booting Cdrom from floppy?

2003-11-03 Thread Jeffrey Smelser
> see man grub / info grub > Actually, I found a boot manager that boots anything.. Works much better than grub.. Thanks anyways -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

RE: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Brent L Johnson
I am only sending text mails to this list. But if someone else sends a NON text email to this list and I reply to it I am FORCED to send it in non-text format. As far as I know there's no way around that in Outlook. - Brent > -Original Message- > From: Paul Stear [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTE

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Oscar Martín
Try running gdm or kdm from the console... then choose gnome from the options. cheers, Oscar. Alan Watson wrote: Probably a dumb question but I can't get Gnome to start after running emerge gnome. Can anyone humour me and tell me... Thanks, Alan -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Data Recovery NEEDED, very important

2003-11-03 Thread Gareth Jones
> Hi Redeeman, > > Nachricht vom Sonntag, 2. November 2003, 13:20:49: >> PLEASE PLEASE PLEASE help >> i will apreciate ANYTHING, and i am willing to pay if some of you can help If this is *really* important, then you should shutdown the machine in question, and call a professional data recovery

[gentoo-user] Boot weirdness

2003-11-03 Thread Jernej Zidar
Hello to all.     After a Stage1 install I wanted to boot my new Gentoo install, but the boot process halts with the message: Bummer, could not run '/etc/init.d/rcS'   If I copy the missing file + the folders rcX(X = 0 to 6) from a debian partition, the system boots without any problem.   W

[gentoo-user] Bus error

2003-11-03 Thread Jernej Zidar
I'm trying to get the program Charmm to work. On a debian install it works flawlessly if you provide some lib files.   If I do the same on Gentoo I get: Bus Error.   I tried changing the kernel configuration (I enabled Unix86pty and stuff), copying the various debian libs to Gentoo but to no

Re: [gentoo-user] Backups?

2003-11-03 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Spider wrote: begin quote On Sun, 02 Nov 2003 19:22:09 -0600 Andrew Gaffney <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I do 'tar -cjf /tmp/backup.tar.bz2 /home ... ... ...; tar -cf /dev/tape /tmp/backup.tar.bz2'. I really need to backup critical data off of the box, also. Do note that for tape issues its s

Re: [gentoo-user] A7V600 SATA - Is this supported by a Gentoo kernel?

2003-11-03 Thread Mark Knecht
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 20:33, Max wrote: > > > > Its no problem at all to use the A7V600 without SATA drives. > > > > Check /usr/src/linux/drivers/ide/raid to be sure. > > > > Andi > > I'd like to see your hdparm -tT results please? I'm attempting to build a SATA machine this week. I'll post ba

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - where did my panel go ?

2003-11-03 Thread Jeff MacDonald
Well, i got it to work. Basically I think I upgraded a part of KDE right out from under my self. So i found the component parts of the kde meta port and just emerged all of them. I'm back to normal now. Jef. On Mon, 2003-11-03 at 07:10, Mike Williams wrote: > -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- >

Re: [gentoo-user] Sharing Printer only among Gentoo systems

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Arrison
On Mon, Nov 03, 2003 at 07:19:23AM +, Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos wrote: > I'm in a network of Gentoo systems. I'd like to know the best way to > share a printer. I imagine that if I was in a mixed network (win/linux) > the best was to use Samba but since the systems are only Gen

Re: [gentoo-user] secure live cd?

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Friday 31 October 2003 16:04, Christian Schäfer wrote: > hi gentoo-user, > > what will I have to do to make sure only I have remote access over ssh > to a box running on the live cd? > I have a box with a static ip running on live cd and want to log

Re: [gentoo-user] kde - where did my panel go ?

2003-11-03 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Monday 03 November 2003 01:43, Jeff MacDonald wrote: > I ran kicker while in Gnome.. > > I got this, > > kicker: relocation error: /usr/kde/3.1/lib/libkonq.so.4: undefined > symbol: _ZN9Q GroupBox10setEnabledEb > > > I also tried to run licq, which

Re: [gentoo-user] Samba encrypted passwords will not work with Gentoo

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Stear
Please only send text mails to this list On Mon 3 November 2003 00:35, Alan Watson wrote: > I am having problems getting Samba to use encrypted passwords on Gentoo. I > have tried all the normal resources (read samba mailing lists) with no > success. I'm not completely new to the programme having

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Stear
Please only send text mails to this list On Mon 3 November 2003 00:31, Brent L Johnson wrote: > I'm new to Gentoo.. but try running "startx" and see if that does the > trick? > > - Brent > > -Original Message- > From: Alan Watson [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Sunday, November 02, 2003

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie - Can't start Gnome

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Stear
Please only send text mails to this list On Mon 3 November 2003 00:30, Alan Watson wrote: > Probably a dumb question but I can't get Gnome to start after running > emerge gnome. Can anyone humour me and tell me... > > Thanks, > > Alan -- -- This message was sent using gentoo linux and kmail

Re: [gentoo-user] KDE en_gb sttings

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Stear
Please only send text mails to this list On Sun 2 November 2003 20:14, Simon Windsor wrote: > Hi > > How do I install the English settings for kde. I have triied > > emerge -p kde-i18-en_GB > emerge -p kde-base/kde-i18n/en_GB > > Any ideas would be appreciated! > > Many thanks > > SImon > Simon Wi

Re: [gentoo-user] Installtion Help: Co-existing with WinXP

2003-11-03 Thread Paul Stear
Please only send text mails to this list On Sun 2 November 2003 19:40, Belinus wrote: > I have a stage 1 install on my Celeron laptop. I followed the instructions > on the install guide and I cannot get the installation to boot. > > The layout of the drive is as follows: > > /dev/hda1 - NTFS > /de

[gentoo-user] Making .ebuild

2003-11-03 Thread raptor
tring to make an .ebuild for tcng but in the "make install" stage I'm getting errors i.e. tcng install script tries to write outside the sandbox.. This is the problematic part of the Makefile : - install-tcc:tcc check-install-dir scripts/localize.sh

Re: [gentoo-user] Data Recovery NEEDED, very important

2003-11-03 Thread Timo Boettcher
Hi Redeeman, Nachricht vom Sonntag, 2. November 2003, 13:20:49: > something happend, and i lost all files in a dir, i think i know what > happend: > i had made a link to the directory in a dir, so that i could share it on > ftp, but when i removed the link, the dirs content got deleted too, its >

[gentoo-user] problems with handspring and kpilot

2003-11-03 Thread daniel
i finally managed to get my handspring to sync with my linux box using kpilot. (whoever said it earlier, they were right, sadly, it IS all about timing). i have a new problem though. while my address book will sync, my memopad and calendar files don't. so i ran kpilot from konsole and got A L

Re: [gentoo-user] LiveCD and Mtools

2003-11-03 Thread Donnie Berkholz
On Sun, 2003-11-02 at 23:35, Brent L Johnson wrote: > The mtools (like mcopy, etc) do not come with the default install. They > come with the mtools package in app-admin/tools and are included with > CD2 of the LiveCD set. How can I install these? I copied all the CD2 > packages to /usr/portage/

[gentoo-user] Sharing Printer only among Gentoo systems

2003-11-03 Thread Paulo Jorge de Oliveira Cantante de Matos
Hi all, I'm in a network of Gentoo systems. I'd like to know the best way to share a printer. I imagine that if I was in a mixed network (win/linux) the best was to use Samba but since the systems are only Gentoo, are there other options (more efficient, better options)? Best regards, -- Paulo

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