Re: [gentoo-user] runlevels & su

2003-06-18 Thread Ewan Mac Mahon
On Wed, Jun 18, 2003 at 12:45:30PM -0400, brett holcomb wrote: > > 2. You don't. (you can use sudo). Just add them to > wheel. I assume it's for security reasons. > It's his system, and if he wants to dispense with the wheel group requirement then he can; the defaults are only defaults, not go

Re: [gentoo-user] /usr/portage/distfiles

2003-02-06 Thread Ewan Mac Mahon
On Wed, Feb 05, 2003 at 08:08:40AM +0100, Robert Arroyo wrote: > > YMMV, but I almost never need to reemerge anything, so I do rm * in > > /usr/portage/distfiles and rm -r * in /var/tmp/portage after any round > > of updates. It's worked for me for several years now. > > > And what about doing /va

Re: [gentoo-user] installation problem

2003-02-26 Thread Ewan Mac Mahon
On Wed, Feb 26, 2003 at 11:23:18AM -0800, Steve White wrote: > I have installed from a RCl1.4 CDrom on a PentiumIII and have followed all > of the instructions carefully (or so I thought). I have obviously missed > something as now the system will not boot from the hard drive. I get no > grub pro

Re: [gentoo-user] My gentoo grub does not work properly (Was installing gentoo on Thinkpad R31)

2003-03-07 Thread Ewan Mac Mahon
On Thu, Mar 06, 2003 at 02:08:59PM +0100, Heino Herrlich wrote: > > Important: To ensure backwards compatibility with GRUB, make sure to > make a link from grub.conf to menu.lst. You can do this by doing ln -s > /boot/grub/grub.conf /boot/grub/menu.lst . > Am I a lucky guy that my Gentoo works w