RE: [gentoo-user] Is it advised to wait for 2005.0 for a first installation?

2005-01-24 Thread Dennis Allison
will work. The scripts and tools in gentoo (i.e. genkernel et al) will help you get your kernel up and running. Most importantly, just follow the steps as outlined in the gentoo handbook and you'll do fine. -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list -- Dennis Allison * Computer Systems

[gentoo-user] making multiple copies of the system

2005-01-15 Thread Dennis Allison
but gets a kernel panic init not found which seems strange. Any suggestions as to how to clone the system and have it work? -- Dennis Allison * Computer Systems Laboratory * Gates 227 * Stanford University * Stanford CA 94305 * (650) 723-9213 * (650) 723-0033 fax

[gentoo-user] cloning servers and preventing genetic drift

2005-01-09 Thread Dennis Allison
I have created a gentoo server (A) that I wish to clone to to other servers ( B and C ) with minor differences in their setup. Over time I want to ensure that the three systems remain synchronized. Is there any easy way to do this? -- Dennis Allison * Computer Systems Laboratory * Gates 227

Re: [gentoo-user] My grub is dead

2004-01-31 Thread Dennis Allison
If you can boot by hand using grub, it's probable that your grub.config file is wrong. On Sat, 31 Jan 2004, Aaron Walker wrote: On Sat, 2004-01-31 at 12:45, rh wrote: Hello. Don't really know what has caused this but my Gentoo box will not properly re-boot...it stops in the grub shell.

Re: [gentoo-user] intel fortran compiler problem

2004-01-26 Thread Dennis Allison
The diagnostics you are seeing suggest that you are not linking with all the needed libraries, probably libc. On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, Valmor de Almeida wrote: When running ifc on a typical hello program I get 12 Lines Compiled

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: HOw much power does a computer consume?

2004-01-26 Thread Dennis Allison
I looked at this issue long ago. Solid state inverters are not a good idea because they put out square waves. The tried and true solution is a motor generator. On Mon, 26 Jan 2004, david stevenson wrote: On Monday 26 January 2004 7:30 pm, Jakub Krajcovic wrote: Hi guys, FIrst of all I

Re: [gentoo-user] mass-replacing text

2003-12-30 Thread Dennis Allison
sed -e 's/ width=51 height=20//' infile outfile ought to do it. If multiple copies appear per line, sed -e 's/ width=51 height=20//g' infile outfile On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: I need to strip out the string ' width=51 height=20' from about 50 HTML documents. Is there

Re: [gentoo-user] mass-replacing text

2003-12-30 Thread Dennis Allison
In that case you'd need to use a program that is not line-oriented. Something like #!/usr/bin/env python2 import re, sys ifd = open(sys.argv[1],'r') pat = re.compile( r'\wwidth51\w+height=20', re.DOTALL) ibuf = ifd.read() ifd.close() obuf = pat.ub('',ibuf) ofd = open(sys.argv[2],'w') ofd.write(

Re: [gentoo-user] mass-replacing text

2003-12-30 Thread Dennis Allison
Another approach which would work in your case is to do it in two steps -- first remove width=51 then remove height=20 On Tue, 30 Dec 2003, Andrew Gaffney wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: Andrew Gaffney wrote: I need to strip out the string ' width=51 height=20' from about 50

Re: [gentoo-user] 2.4.20-gentoo-r9 has issues (?)

2003-12-08 Thread Dennis Allison
If the r9' kernels are 'redhat 9' derived, that problem probably has to do with threading (a back port and very different -- many threaded programs break) and/or a broken glibc. In the redhat world you need to upgrade the kernel to the bleeding edge, same with glibc to make most things work. On

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia nForce 2 and Gentoo

2003-12-06 Thread Dennis Allison
I suspect that you have some generic problem. I am writing this from a shuttle running RH9 (at the moment) but have had no real problem putting up any of the other distros. Some distros (RH9 among them) do not know how to deal with the NVIDIA chipset's networking -- download the appropriate

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia nForce 2 and Gentoo

2003-12-06 Thread Dennis Allison
That's why I suspect hardware problems. I have two shuttle machines love them (pyhsically small, quiet, reliable, etc.). Have you tried backing off the clock? What exactly are the circumstances of reboot failure? Has the machine been running (that is, is it warm) or has it been off for a

Re: [gentoo-user] NVidia nForce 2 and Gentoo

2003-12-06 Thread Dennis Allison
One more thing, what version of the NVIDIA drivers are you using. The early releases had some problems. On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Paul Grenyer wrote: Hi I suspect that you have some generic problem. I am writing this from a shuttle running RH9 (at the moment) but have had no real problem

Re: [gentoo-user] USB Mouse wierdness

2003-12-06 Thread Dennis Allison
Ummm... I use a different wireless mouse, but that behavior usually has to do with low batteries. Try replacing the batteries. On Sat, 6 Dec 2003, Gregory Symons wrote: Hi, I've got an MS wireless optical intellimouse explorer usb (sheesh that's a long name:) mouse which is exhibiting some

Re: [gentoo-user] vim does not care about tabspace

2003-12-04 Thread Dennis Allison
Check the file protections on the .vimrc file. On Thu, 4 Dec 2003, Jan Drugowitsch wrote: hi, Somehow, vim doesn't case about the set tabespace in the ~/.vimrc file. Although I've a clear 'set ts=4' in there, it always starts of with a tabspace size of 8. Only after setting it to 4 with

[gentoo-user] 3ware 8605 raid problems

2003-12-01 Thread Dennis Allison
Turn out to have been hardware related. When used with a riser card, the raid controller must be installed in the slot closest to the motherboard (at least for the dual AMD Athlon Tyan board). In other slots, the board gets detected but cannot be accessed. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Did anony receive this crap too?

2003-11-30 Thread Dennis Allison
This looks to me to be a variant on the 419 scam. Such messages should be sent to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Presumably they will take action against the scammers, but with a traffic volume of over 10,000 messages a month they may be a bit behind and losing ground. CONGRATULATIONS! CONGRATULATIONS!!

[gentoo-user] help--how to replace broken raid driver

2003-11-28 Thread Dennis Allison
I have a 8605 3ware raid which requires a different driver (3w-) than the one in the portage tree (3w-). I've successfully built a system based on gs-sources but the system dies at boot while probing scsi trying to use the incorrect (but identically named) driver. One approach to

[gentoo-user] Scripting installation

2003-11-26 Thread Dennis Allison
Is there a good way to do it? I find the by hand approach taught by the docs to be error prone. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Scripting installation

2003-11-26 Thread Dennis Allison
and executing a script after the LiveCD system is booted. Is there a 'recommended way to manage a scripted install? On Wed, 26 Nov 2003, Keith Dart wrote: On Wed, 2003-11-26 at 12:42, Dennis Allison wrote: Is there a good way to do it? I find the by hand approach taught by the docs

[gentoo-user] Using the 2 CD set to install ==

2003-11-26 Thread Dennis Allison
bit, sad to say, I want to install on the system's 3ware RAID and the driver does not work... I have downloaded the driver, made what I think are the right mods, and compiled the sucker. I'm a bit unclear as to how to get the system to see the driver which resides on CDROM or on the net in

[gentoo-user] building gentoo with a 3ware ATA raid (fwd)

2003-11-22 Thread Dennis Allison
Sorry for the cross post -- I am not sure which list is appropriate as I am a Gentoo nubie. I have a set of the Gentoo 1.4 CDs for the Athlon. The target machine is a a dual processor Athlon with 3ware 8506 serial ATA raid. Does the current release detect and support 3ware? -- [EMAIL