On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 14:54:33 -0800, Robert Persson wrote:
On Thursday 16 March 2006 09:15 Nick Smith was like:
i just accidentally blew away my ntfs partition with the gentoo
install cd (formatted hda1 instead of hdb1) is there a way to unformat
if it was just done? like undo the format
On Thursday 16 Mar 2006 18:58, Rick van Hattem wrote:
dd if=/dev/zero
of=/dev/sda bs=1k count=100
Thanks for the help
That worked It is now only showing sda1
Paul
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after an emerge -e xorg-x11 i got xorg 7 working again
however when i start gdm it just keeps restarting with no errors given
startx is working fine inface that's how i got into the system to
write this message :)
so any idea about what could be the problem?
thx
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I see that portage is updating its cache for about 20 minutes these
days!!! This is on an Athlon 600MHz box with 384MB PC133.
Updating Portage cache: 50%
Just trying to do a sync
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On 3/17/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see that portage is updating its cache for about 20 minutes these
days!!! This is on an Athlon 600MHz box with 384MB PC133.
Updating Portage cache: 50%
Just trying to do a sync
Good question :)
But one way to speed this up
Bruno Lustosa wrote:
Good question :)
But one way to speed this up is to use CDB, so that instead of keeping
cache in separate files, it's all in one, resulting in a *much* faster
cache update.
There are directions here:
http://gentoo-wiki.com/TIP_speed_up_portage_with_cdb
Interesting ...
On 3/17/06, Bruno Lustosa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On 3/17/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
I see that portage is updating its cache for about 20 minutes these
days!!! This is on an Athlon 600MHz box with 384MB PC133.
Updating Portage cache: 50%
Just trying to do
Thomas T. Veldhouse wrote:
Bruno Lustosa wrote:
Good question :)
But one way to speed this up is to use CDB, so that instead of keeping
cache in separate files, it's all in one, resulting in a *much* faster
cache update.
There are directions here:
On Friday 17 March 2006 15:02, Bruno Lustosa wrote:
Good question :)
But one way to speed this up is to use CDB, so that instead of keeping
cache in separate files, it's all in one, resulting in a *much* faster
cache update.
There are directions here:
On 3/17/06, Thomas T. Veldhouse [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Bruno Lustosa wrote:
Good question :)
But one way to speed this up is to use CDB, so that instead of keeping
cache in separate files, it's all in one, resulting in a *much* faster
cache update.
There are directions here:
thanks for the replies, i was actually able to get the data off the
drive with getdataback, i can rest easy now.
thanks again
Nick
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yeah its possible, its just not stable on with most video cardsOn 3/15/06, Ow Mun Heng [EMAIL PROTECTED]
wrote:On Thu, 2006-03-09 at 20:25 +1100, David Helstroom wrote: Pablasso wrote:
if you have your video driver with dri/drm (3d acceleration) activated, thats the problem, suspend2 currently
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 10:09:37 -0500, Nick Smith wrote:
thanks for the replies, i was actually able to get the data off the
drive with getdataback, i can rest easy now.
thanks again
Nick
Aren't you the lucky one!! Bet you'll never do _that_ again! However, it's
important to have a list of
Aren't you the lucky one!! Bet you'll never do _that_ again! However, it's
important to have a list of useful programs that help in just this kind of
circumstance. You _never_ know when you may need it. I'd never heard of
getdataback, but will take a look.
Glad this had a happy ending. Now,
Hi everybody,
For those who haven't noticed yet the 2006.0 LiveCD
doesn't seem to work on K6's etc. A look at the docs
confirms this: not all architectures supported.
Guess that 686 in the filename should have warned me
away. Sheesh! 75 hrs downloading for nothing!
Trying the min-install...
Does anybody know if there are still squidGuard blacklist databases that
are actively maintained? It appears that the author of squidGuard
ceased maintaining the blacklist database there as of about 5 to 6
months ago.
Thanks in advance,
Tom Veldhouse
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Uwe Thiem uwix at iway.na writes:
Just out of interest how far along is qt4? Last time I looked the next
major release of kde *might* be using it, if it becomes stable in time. Is
this still the case?
The current version is Qt-4.1.1 AFAIK and it's pretty stable.
KDE4 will be based on
On 3/16/06, Iain Buchanan [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 14:52 -0500, JimD wrote: On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 11:12:28 -0800 Kevin O'Gorman [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails
that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of
Yes, I expose this machine's port 25 on purpose. So I would like
to make
it a good netizen.
I had done this with sendmail in previous distros, but am a
neophyte with
Postfix. Right now I want to verify if I have (or am) a problem.
with postfix, it will, by default ONLY accept mail for
Hi,
I have one problem with bind. I am getting answer from dns server for dig command but there is no MX entry. Any idea whats wrong? Below is the configuration file for master zone and dig command ouput is also given.
###server1.guru.com.zone##$TTL
On 3/16/06, Gerhard Hoogterp [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Thursday 16 March 2006 20:12, Kevin O'Gorman wrote: I get a lot of bounce messages from Postfix relating to emails that are not actually from me, and the mail q shows lots of stuff I don't recognize.
I'd like to know how to interpret this,
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 21:52 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:11, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
'Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso':
The strange part is that when I mount the same DVD in amd64-machine all
directory and files are listed in
Hello,
Hiren Dave wrote:
Hi,
I have one problem with bind. I am getting answer from dns server for
dig command but there is no MX entry. Any idea whats wrong? Below is the
configuration file for master zone and dig command ouput is also given.
That is not the issue with bind.
Dig is also
On 3/17/06, John Jolet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Yes, I expose this machine's port 25 on purpose.So I would like to make it a good netizen. I had done this with sendmail in previous distros, but am a neophyte with
Postfix.Right now I want to verify if I have (or am) a problem.with postfix, it
Kevin O'Gorman wrote:
Although it seems this host is not a relay, that does not explain the
score or so of things languishing in my mail queue attempting to
contact sites I have no knowledge of, and which do not accept
the connection. Any hints how to explore this?
Look through
Hi!
Hemmann, Volker Armin volker.armin.hemmann at tu-clausthal.de writes:
http://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-261580.html
is the thread.
But beware, in /usr/portage/modules you need this:
portdbapi.auxdbmodule = cache.cdb.database
eclass_cache.dbmodule = cache.cdb.database
not
Hello everybody,
Can someone give me a tip(s) on how to proceed with
this minimal install?
I note on the CD big files such as image.squasfs and
gentoo.igz but the little on-line about them is not
very helpful.
I think I can start ppp and prepare the harddrive but
beyond that darkness looms :^(
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 08:10:33 -0500, Peter wrote:
all snip.
Well, I had to run
# rc-update add splash default
again. Somehow updating splashutils removed it from the boot sequence.
Without splash loaded, the graphical image on the console would not stay
past the init sequence. Loading splash
maxim wexler wrote:
Hello everybody,
Can someone give me a tip(s) on how to proceed with
this minimal install?
I note on the CD big files such as image.squasfs and
gentoo.igz but the little on-line about them is not
very helpful.
I think I can start ppp and prepare the harddrive but
beyond
maxim wexler blissfix at yahoo.com writes:
Hi everybody,
For those who haven't noticed yet the 2006.0 LiveCD
doesn't seem to work on K6's etc. A look at the docs
confirms this: not all architectures supported.
Guess that 686 in the filename should have warned me
away. Sheesh! 75 hrs
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:15:56 +0100 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Well, you know, in worst case, portage doesn't work anymore.
| In this case, you'd just have to revert your changes, and
| everything's fine again.
No, in the worst case Portage ends up with duff cache data, leading to
Does anyone know of an app/script for doing a multi-DVD backup of my ~/?
My ~/ is 10GB so I will need something that could do a little
compression and create as many DVD iso images as needed.
I was thinking of just tar.gzing my ~/ and then splitting that file to
sizes to fit on a DVD and
--- Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maxim wexler wrote:
Hello everybody,
Can someone give me a tip(s) on how to proceed with
this minimal install?
I note on the CD big files such as image.squasfs
and
gentoo.igz but the little on-line about them is not
very helpful.
I
On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:23 PM, JimD wrote:
Does anyone know of an app/script for doing a multi-DVD backup of
my ~/? My ~/ is 10GB so I will need something that could do a
little compression and create as many DVD iso images as needed.
I was thinking of just tar.gzing my ~/ and then
On Mar 17, 2006, at 3:23 PM, maxim wexler wrote:
--- Jeremy Olexa [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
maxim wexler wrote:
Hello everybody,
Can someone give me a tip(s) on how to proceed with
this minimal install?
I note on the CD big files such as image.squasfs
and
gentoo.igz but the little
On Friday 17 March 2006 22:23, maxim wexler wrote:
Have you read the install handbooks yet?
Yes. To paraphrase what I found: if you want you can
use the minimal install CD. If you got a link to
something a trifle more verbose I'd sure like to
follow it.
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 09:36:12 +
Unknown [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
/etc/init.d/net.lo start
ip link, shows that lo interface is there
Nick (running out of ideas)
OK.
does this happen for all users? or just you? (don't come back and say
you only have one user. if that is so make
John Jolet wrote:
look at freshmeat.net for scdbackup. it can be called with sdvdbackup
and will span dvds. I back up my mail server totally to 4 dvds. you
can tell it what filesystems to backup, or directories. it figures it
all out for you. be warned that growisofs is a prereq for it.
On Friday 17 March 2006 19:24, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Is anyone using CDB with Portage 2.1?
with the latest portage incarnations it does not work anymore at all. But
portage got a lot speedier too, so the problem is not soo big.
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John Jolet wrote:
look at freshmeat.net for scdbackup. it can be called with sdvdbackup
and will span dvds. I back up my mail server totally to 4 dvds. you
can tell it what filesystems to backup, or directories. it figures it
all out for you. be warned that growisofs is a prereq for it.
On Friday 17 March 2006 19:24, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Is anyone using CDB with Portage 2.1?
# grep ewarn /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.1_pre6-r3.ebuild
ewarn This series contains a completely rewritten caching framework.
ewarn If you are using any cache modules (such
On Mar 17, 2006, at 4:29 PM, JimD wrote:
John Jolet wrote:
look at freshmeat.net for scdbackup. it can be called with
sdvdbackup and will span dvds. I back up my mail server totally
to 4 dvds. you can tell it what filesystems to backup, or
directories. it figures it all out for you.
On 3/17/06, Ciaran McCreesh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Fri, 17 Mar 2006 15:15:56 +0100 Alexander Skwar
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
| Well, you know, in worst case, portage doesn't work anymore.
| In this case, you'd just have to revert your changes, and
| everything's fine again.
No, in the
On Friday 17 March 2006 11:39, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote about
'Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd of=backup.iso':
On Thu, 2006-03-16 at 21:52 -0600, Boyd Stephen Smith Jr. wrote:
On Thursday 16 March 2006 12:11, Joseph [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote
about
'Re: [gentoo-user] dd if=/dev/dvd
On Thu, 16 Mar 2006 19:07:46 -0800
Bob Sanders [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
On Sat, 11 Mar 2006 13:04:58 -0600
Michael Madden [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
Could someone recommend an amd64 box to use with Gentoo 2006.0?
I had considered one of the following workstations; has anyone had
good or
That would explain but according to my fstab file both should be mount
as iso9660 type;
It does explain it. I've done it many a time.
my amd64 fstab entry (showing all small letters):
/dev/cdroms/cdrom0 /mnt/cdrom iso9660
/dev/pktcdvd/0 /mnt/cdrw
Does anyone know of a tool for Linux or Windows that will see what is the
best channel to use?
I have a desktop (gentoo) and a laptop (XP) on my home network. My wireless
router is a D-Link DI-524. The desktop is wired to a port and the laptop is
wireless with an Intell Intel PRO/Wireless
Bo Andresen wrote:
On Friday 17 March 2006 19:24, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Is anyone using CDB with Portage 2.1?
# grep ewarn /usr/portage/sys-apps/portage/portage-2.1_pre6-r3.ebuild
ewarn This series contains a completely rewritten caching framework.
ewarn If you are using
On Saturday 18 March 2006 07:16, Alexander Skwar wrote:
Yes, I know, but please read the thread.
Oh sorry. I probably shouldn't write to a mailing list when that tired... ;)
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