Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??

2004-01-07 Thread Al Raq
On Wednesday 07 January 2004 03:02, Alan wrote: > On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:13:19PM -0500, Al Raq wrote: > > Hi all, > > > > May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask. > > I want to "keep" my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more > > without reinstalling it from scratch but ju

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??

2004-01-07 Thread Alan
On Tue, Jan 06, 2004 at 02:13:19PM -0500, Al Raq wrote: > > Hi all, > > May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask. > I want to "keep" my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without > reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it possible ??? > > How easy to

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??

2004-01-06 Thread brettholcomb
ne by etc-update DO NOT run etc-update and let it do every update. Check the updates first to make sure it won't mess up some files. > > From: Al Raq <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > Date: 2004/01/06 Tue PM 02:13:19 EST > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: [gentoo-user] Newbi

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??

2004-01-06 Thread Andrew Gaffney
Al Raq wrote: Hi all, May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask. I want to "keep" my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it possible ??? How easy to update gentoo to the next coming realeases with the 2.6 k

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??

2004-01-06 Thread Mike Williams
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 06 January 2004 19:13, Al Raq wrote: > Hi all, > > May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask. > I want to "keep" my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more > without reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. I

[gentoo-user] Newbie question: Does gentoo have an expiration date ??

2004-01-06 Thread Al Raq
Hi all, May be this is a stupid question but I had to ask. I want to "keep" my gentoo installed in my machine for 3 years or more without reinstalling it from scratch but just keeping updated. Is it possible ??? How easy to update gentoo to the next coming realeases with the 2.6 kernel. ,gcc,

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question

2003-08-25 Thread Jason Stubbs
On Monday 25 August 2003 18:10, Peron, Stéphane wrote: > And if I want to recompile KDE anyway ... ;-) ??? > How can I do this from a GRP installation ? > (It just to understand how portage works) Ordinarily, to recompile a package you can just give the command "emerge ". However kde-base/kde is

Re: [gentoo-user] RE : [gentoo-user] newbie question

2003-08-25 Thread Philippe Van Hecke
and how portage works) > > Best regards > > Stéphane PERON > > -Message d'origine- > De : Philippe Van Hecke [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Envoyé : lundi 25 août 2003 10:59 > À : [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Objet : Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question &g

[gentoo-user] RE : [gentoo-user] newbie question

2003-08-25 Thread "Peron, Stéphane"
Title: RE : [gentoo-user] newbie question Thanks a lot Philippe ! I try it asap ..coool And if I want to recompile KDE anyway ... ;-) ??? How can I do this from a GRP installation ? (It just to understand how portage works) Best regards Stéphane PERON -Message d'origine---

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question

2003-08-25 Thread Philippe Van Hecke
Try this, emerge app-i18n/kde-i18n-fr Philippe -- _ Philippe Van Hecke NETWORK ENGINEER BELNET Rue de la Science, 4 B-1000 Brussels Belgium Tel: +32 (0) 2790 Fax: +32 (0) 27903335 __ -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] mailing list

[gentoo-user] newbie question

2003-08-25 Thread "Peron, Stéphane"
Title: Message Hi all,   I have just installed Gentoo 3 days ago and first, I would like to thank people who works on this projet .. It is a dream   All my installation process was OK  thanks to the very good documentation and the work made in the scripts by Gentoo team.   I have inst

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question about starting X

2003-06-05 Thread Marcin Dec
On Thursday 05 of June 2003 08:41, John wrote: > > Sounds like a font issue in XF86Config file. > > Maybe could resolve by using XFS? Might be worth a try: > Run this as root: > # rc-update add xfs default > # /etc/init.d/xfs start > > Then log back in as regular user, and try startx again. > Hi

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question about starting X

2003-06-05 Thread John
> I have "very newbie question". I have a newbie answer! > When I type startx as non-root user it says me > that it couldn't load "fixed" font and it backs to console. Running startx as > root works fine. At the moment I log in as root into my linux and run kdm. I > configured kdm to log in into

[gentoo-user] newbie question about starting X

2003-06-05 Thread Marcin Dec
Hi I have "very newbie question". When I type startx as non-root user it says me that it couldn't load "fixed" font and it backs to console. Running startx as root works fine. At the moment I log in as root into my linux and run kdm. I configured kdm to log in into kde as non-root user. But I p

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question after installing kernel

2003-03-10 Thread Louis C. Candell
> Long long time ago, on Tuesday 04 March 2003 07:14 pm, richard terry wrote: > > Questions: > > > > 2)Does any sort of X display exist at the basic level You can use one of those GRP rc2 cd's with a pre-built XFREE binary for your system, however, it is outdated and you will be prompted to upgrad

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question after installing kernel

2003-03-10 Thread Norberto BENSA
Long long time ago, on Tuesday 04 March 2003 07:14 pm, richard terry wrote: > Questions: > > 1)Where can I find the log file to tell me what I've compiled wrong in the > kernel? > 2)Does any sort of X display exist at the basic level > 3)Could someone point me to doc's to download and install KDE3.

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-08 Thread Josh McCormack
be the best way to that goal? Josh Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8 From: Jose Gonzalez Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Date: Fri, 07 Mar 2003 12:48:02 +0100 To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] First of all, thanks to all that have provided advice on how to migrate.

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-07 Thread Collins Richey
On Fri, 07 Mar 2003 08:38:26 -0500 "brett holcomb" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Because of the great portage system releases have no > meaning for Gentoo except for the CDs. Install 1.4rc3 and > then keep up with > > emerge synch > emerge -u system > emerge -u world > > You might want to do -

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-07 Thread brett holcomb
Because of the great portage system releases have no meaning for Gentoo except for the CDs. Install 1.4rc3 and then keep up with emerge synch emerge -u system emerge -u world You might want to do -up for each just to see what it will update and check it over. This way you keep up to date and

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-07 Thread Don Smith
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: | | First of all, thanks to all that have provided advice on how to migrate. | | Ok, so I've made up my mind and want to migrate to Gentoo... should I wait until 1.4 final or does the portage system make irreveleva

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-07 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
    First of all, thanks to all that have provided advice on how to migrate.     Ok, so I've made up my mind and want to migrate to Gentoo... should I wait until 1.4 final or does the portage system make irrevelevant the distribution you start with? Is there an expeceted release date for 1.4

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Matthew Kennedy
Jose Gonzalez Gomez <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm a freelance Java developer, and I have two machines: one that > serves as develoment server (CVS, Apache, JBoss, OC4J, SAPDb, etc) > and another one that I use as development workstation (Gnome, > Netbeans, and the usual stuff l

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Louis C. Candell
Alec Berryman <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > > Bochs is another alternative, but I've heard it is incredibly slow. > Painfully slow. Heh. > would be worth grabbing a free 30-day VMWare trial, or go the similarly > speedy route of the UML tutorial. > Yah, that UML tutorial does kick some major

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Alec Berryman
> Dont forget about bochs! > > http://bochs.sourceforge.net Bochs is another alternative, but I've heard it is incredibly slow. Painfully slow. While going with the open source option of bochs over VMWare is appealing, if this guy wants to compile X anytime soon it would be worth grabbing a fre

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH

2003-03-05 Thread Louis C. Candell
Dont forget about bochs! http://bochs.sourceforge.net Welcome to the Bochs IA-32 Emulator Project Bochs is a highly portable open source IA-32 (x86) PC emulator written in C++, that runs on most popular platforms. It includes emulation of the Intel x86 CPU, common I/O devices, and a custom

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Alec Berryman
On Wed, 2003-03-05 at 08:42, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Hi, > > I've been a RH8 user for a few months, and I'm really sick of the > rpm stuff. I had a lot of problems installing a few things, and I still > have things not working, like video conferencing. I heard of the gentoo > distr

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Louis C. Candell
My last Gentoo Linux install (rc2) took me less than 45 minutes. I went with a stage-3 tarball, emerge sync and scp'ed a working kernel from another gentoo box which had everything I needed for my new box built into the kernel instead of modules. emerge cron & system loggers and raid tools lvm us

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread nealbirch
Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: Hi, I'm a freelance Java developer, and I have two machines: one that serves as develoment server I have taken a look to several reviews of Gentoo, and they all tell the same about installing it: it takes a loong time. I cannot afford having one of my machin

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Martin Larsson
On ons, 2003-03-05 at 15:42, Jose Gonzalez Gomez wrote: > Hi, > > I've been a RH8 user for a few months, and I'm really sick of the > rpm stuff. I had a lot of problems installing a few things, and I still > have things not working, like video conferencing. I heard of the gentoo > distr

[gentoo-user] Newbie question - migration from RH8

2003-03-05 Thread Jose Gonzalez Gomez
Hi, I've been a RH8 user for a few months, and I'm really sick of the rpm stuff. I had a lot of problems installing a few things, and I still have things not working, like video conferencing. I heard of the gentoo distribution and thought I'd give it a try. I'm a freelance Java develo

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question after installing kernel

2003-03-04 Thread Alec Berryman
> 1)Where can I find the log file to tell me what I've compiled wrong in the > kernel? Poke around /var/log. Depending on what logger you are using, the files will be in different places. I'm using metalog and get some kernel messages in /var/log/kernel. The best thing is to just keep a watchf

Re: [gentoo-user] Newbie question after installing kernel

2003-03-04 Thread Daniel Carrera
On Wed, Mar 05, 2003 at 09:14:23AM +1100, richard terry wrote: > Hi, > > I'm totally new to Gentoo, but familiar with the gui type linux distro, so > forgive my ignorant questions. > > I've managed to compile a kernel for my Athlon using the stage 3 stuff and > can boot into a prompt. > > I'v

[gentoo-user] Newbie question after installing kernel

2003-03-04 Thread richard terry
Hi, I'm totally new to Gentoo, but familiar with the gui type linux distro, so forgive my ignorant questions. I've managed to compile a kernel for my Athlon using the stage 3 stuff and can boot into a prompt. I've noticed some error messages on the way in. Questions: 1)Where can I find the

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Ted Goodridge, Jr
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003 01:09:35 -0500, Todd Punderson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Oops, crud I posted HTML accidentally I think, damn windows client. Anyway, a K6-2 is a i586, you'll need to fix your CHOST. On a K6-2 that I have, I use: CHOST="i586-pc-linux-gnu" CFLAGS="-march=k6-2 -O3 -pipe " CXXFLAG

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Todd Punderson
instruction problem until I noticed in the cpuinfo that the family is '5' hence a 586. :) Todd - Original Message - From: Jeremy Schneider To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:17 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package sup

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Todd Punderson
A k6-2 is a i586, change your CHOST setting. I ran into this same issue. Todd   - Original Message - From: Jeremy Schneider To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Tuesday, March 04, 2003 12:17 AM Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremy Schneider
ARGHH! I am so sorry! I was trying to find out how to get Hotmail to turn that off. I have done that now. Please forgive me. Embarassed, -Jeremy Schneider From: Arker To: "Jeremy Schneider" , [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what packag

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremy Schneider
nof00f_bug    : nocoma_bug    : nofpu : yesfpu_exception   : yescpuid level : 1wp  : yesflags   : fpu vme de pse tsc msr mce cx8 pge mmx syscall 3dnow k6_mtrrbogomips    : 996.14 dana etc # >From: Stijn Vander Maelen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >CC: [E

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Arker
On March 3, 2003 11:10 pm, Jeremy Schneider wrote: > Here's a newbie question that > should be in the FAQ (or is, and I just can't read): >   > What package will supply the * command? >   ---snip--- May I politely suggest that you not send HTML encoded email to mailing lists? I don't mean to offe

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what packagesupplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Stijn Vander Maelen
On Tue, 4 Mar 2003, Jonathan Morton wrote: > >/usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf: line 70: 30112 Illegal instruction imake > > Looks like you built using over-aggressive CFLAGS. or a cpu type that's not equal to what's in your computer regards, stijn > > -- > ---

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremy Schneider
;[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >To: "Jeremy Schneider" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>, [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command >Date: Tue, 4 Mar 2003 04:21:50 +0100 > >>/usr/X11R6/bin/xmkm

Re: [gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what packagesupplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Jonathan Morton
/usr/X11R6/bin/xmkmf: line 70: 30112 Illegal instruction imake Looks like you built using over-aggressive CFLAGS. -- -- from: Jonathan "Chromatix" Morton mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] website: http://www.chromatix.uklinux.net/ tagl

[gentoo-user] newbie question not in the faq: what package supplies the command

2003-03-03 Thread Jeremy Schneider
Here's a newbie question that should be in the FAQ (or is, and I just can't read):   What package will supply the * command?   The motivation for this question is that I was trying to do "emerge -u system", and groff is not compiling.  Part of the output from that command is this: ... checking whic