Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation

2003-10-15 Thread Jon Dye
Matt Garman wrote: [snip] xmms also fails: emerge (40 of 54) media-sound/xmms-1.2.7-r20 to / md5 src_uri ;-) xmms-1.2.7.tar.gz Unpacking source... Unpacking xmms-1.2.7.tar.gz to /var/tmp/portage/xmms-1.2.7-r20/work * Applying xmms-jump.patch... [ ok ] * Applying xmms-sigterm.patch... [ ok ]

Re: [gentoo-user] strange install situation

2003-10-15 Thread Jon Dye
Matt Garman wrote: Hello: I used the Athlon XP v1.4 (dated 9/11) Live CD disk 1 to do a Stage 3 install of Gentoo. Everything *seemed* to go okay, until reboot, when Grub couldn't find the kernel. I used the Live CD as a rescue disk, looked at my install drive, and, sure enough, no kernel was ins

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on booting after installation.

2003-10-14 Thread Jon Dye
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Jon, - snip - Problme now solved. I can mount another floppy created on another Linux box with '/mnt/floppy' There is nothing wrong on the floppy nor its drive, only impossible to read bootdisk. I tried following command without success # mount /mnt/floppy # mount -t e

Re: [gentoo-user] Problem on booting after installation.

2003-10-14 Thread Jon Dye
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Collins, - snip - I already have following line on /etc/fstab /dev/fd0/mnt/floppy auto noauto,owner,kudzu 0 0 # mount /mnt/floppy # mount -t vfat /dev/fd0 /mnt/floppy all can't work. However this line works on other distro Then I made following change /dev/fd0

[gentoo-user] Setting up menus in KDE

2003-10-13 Thread Jon Dye
Hi, I'm used to debian where every package sets up a menu entry in KDE/gnome automatically, is there something like this for gentoo? If not is there an autmated way of creating menus so I don't have to add all my programs by hand? JD -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] Multiple emerges

2003-10-13 Thread Jon Dye
Hello, Could anyone tell me wether I can run multiple instances of emerge at the same time or not? I guess it depends on how well it loks the portage database? I'm asking because I'd like to run a big emerge (e.g. mozilla or kde) and then run several smaller ones (e.g. host, pciutils) at the s

Re: [gentoo-user] Package installation question

2003-10-13 Thread Jon Dye
A. S. Budden wrote: Thus spake Stephen Liu: Kindly advise. Thanks in advance. emerge package # download and compile How can I know they are available on net/website If you know the name of the package, have a look in /usr/portage with find, e.g. cd /usr/portage find . -name 'rolo' -maxdepth 2 fi