[gentoo-user] GRUB RAID device ( second try )

2003-10-21 Thread Walther The Writer
I assume my question of sort of stupid, but nonetheless, even stupid people have a right to use Gentoo. I'm trying to figure out what my ataraid raid device (dXpY ) is. What do I have to put instead X and Y and finally, what d and p means. Thanks. Walther. Quote from manual: Also, in the

[gentoo-user] RAID Device... How do I know it?

2003-10-20 Thread Walther The Writer
How do I know the name of my RAID device? What do I have to put instead of X and Y and what d and p stand for ( not really important) Walther. Quote: Also, in the GRUB configuration be sure to point the root to the appropriate RAID device: Code listing .5: grub.conf for RAID title=My

[gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Walther The Writer
Hi all, I have an about 7 GB for Gentoo Linux allocated. How many partitions do you people have for your Linux installation, what directories mounted and what your suggestions on partition's size. Thanks. Walther. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Suggestions on partitions sizes and what directories to mount?

2003-10-02 Thread Walther The Writer
On Oct 02, 08:01, Walther The Writer wrote: Hi all, I have an about 7 GB for Gentoo Linux allocated. How many partitions do you people have for your Linux installation, what directories mounted and what your suggestions on partition's size. Thanks. LVM or EVMS are your friends here keep

[gentoo-user] Question about ATA RAID controllers...

2003-10-02 Thread Walther The Writer
I beleive I have hardware ATA RAID controller, becuase when I'm booting up with gentoo doataraid kernel option the setup says it is detected and when I do modprobe ataraid, no errors appear. When I do modprobe pdcriad or hptraid. modules can't be loaded with a bunch of errors, so I assume that I

[gentoo-user] Nano, USE, CHOST. CFLAGS question ( advice )

2003-09-27 Thread Walther The Writer
First of all, I'd like to ask about nano. It has those menues on the botton like ^X, ^E, ^whatever, but when I type exactly as it's printed, i.e. ^W and hit enter, nothing happens. So, what am I doing wrong? I have Pentium III Coppermine CPU, so what's your suggestions about make.conf file

[gentoo-user] Emerge System Question

2003-09-27 Thread Walther The Writer
What I have done so far is to use VMWare to download all necessary files to compile system from stage one. I had run bootstrap.sh script with -f ( fetchonly ) option hoping that I can compile system later. Next thing I need to do is to run emerge -p system -- emerge system. Will I be able to do

[gentoo-user] Modem driver

2003-09-26 Thread Walther The Writer
I have basic 1.4 Gentoo Cd which has stage 1 tarball. Will I be able to compile my modem LTWin driver after the stage 1? Also, is that ok if I unmount Gentoo CD and put my Cd with modem driver on it? Anyway, what's the right time for Gentto to compile my driver. Walther. -- [EMAIL PROTECTED]

[gentoo-user] Compiling from a stage one with Slackware dist on the drive...

2003-09-23 Thread Walther The Writer
I have read many posts on message boards about compiling Gentoo from stage one on dial-up connection and know this was succesfullyh done by many Gentooers. However I just canot seem to find starting point for myself in this my situation. I have downloaded and burned stage one on the CD. I did a

Re: [gentoo-user] Compiling from a stage one with Slackware diston the drive...

2003-09-23 Thread Walther The Writer
Noro, I've read it, but I want to do it from the stage one and with a tarball. Thanks. Walther. Walther The Writer wrote: I have read many posts on message boards about compiling Gentoo from stage one on dial-up connection Dummy newbie wants to know. But I am sure you didn't