[gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Felix Miata
overbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/12 17:03 (GMT-0400) Indi composed: On 2011/05/12 16:41 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml?part=1&chap=6 seems to have a circular reference, that is, suggesting the use of the subject utility prior to chrooting and having

Re: [gentoo-user] mirrorselect on new install

2011-05-12 Thread Felix Miata
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[gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-13 Thread Felix Miata
Are such things in a FAQ somewhere? Do I need an older or newer portage than Wednesday's? The Handbook stops at Finalizing, where these questions aren't covered. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Transl

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-13 Thread Felix Miata
three possibles are the correct response led me to http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/xorg-config.xml which I hadn't seen before. Now that I have I think I need to recompile due to misconfiguring of Graphics support. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words a

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-13 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/14 05:19 (GMT+0200) Alex Schuster composed: Indi writes: Felix Miata wrote: Along the way to successful boot, I attempted two emerges suggested by the handbook (one being Grub Legacy). Both produced "ERROR: ... (compile phase)..." errors. If you like, post th

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/14 08:25 (GMT+0200) Alan McKinnon composed: Felix Miata composed: emerge: there are no ebuilds built with USE flags to satisfy ">=media-libs/libcanberra-0.4[gtk]". !!! One of the following packages is required to complete your request: - media-libs/libcanberra-0.2

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Felix Miata
ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Felix Miata
Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Felix Miata
vlc" to your USE and try again. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-14 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/14 11:04 (GMT-0400) Indi composed: Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/05/14 10:37 (GMT-0400) Indi composed: > Far better (IMO, YMMV) is to use /etc/portage/package.use specify such things > per package. Unless, of course, you like having a gtk GUI for everything. > :

[gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

2011-05-14 Thread Felix Miata
ords are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"

2011-05-15 Thread Felix Miata
to quit real soon unless I get a whole lot better help. I'm sure I've used up my quota of better efficiency just trying to get started, and need to get back to normal life soon. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21

Re: [gentoo-user] site:www.gentoo.org (compile phase)...die "econf failed"^H^H^H^H^H^H^H Success!!!

2011-05-15 Thread Felix Miata
quot;The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video)

2011-05-15 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/14 09:20 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: My #1 problem to solve is NFS not working yet (nfs-utils aka libevent, portmap, rpc emerge failures), but it would also be very nice to get Grub to emerge. Logs: http://fm.no-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/ Now as noted in the econf failed thread I&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (part solved)

2011-05-15 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: The errors from NFS are different than I originally encountered, and indicate that neither portmap nor rpcbind are running. Which of the two did nfs-utils actually install (or both?), and what exactly is its name I need to use with rc-update

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-15 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, another to chainload Gentoo's Grub. Loading the kernel works, but chainload gives error 13 invalid executable format. I named the bzImage copied to /boot &q

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Felix Miata
On 2011/05/16 11:26 (GMT-0400) Indi composed: On Mon, May 16, 2011 at 05:00:02AM +0200, Felix Miata wrote: On 2011/05/15 22:18 (GMT-0400) Felix Miata composed: > I have two Gentoo stanzas in my primary bootloader, one to load the kernel, > another to chainload Gentoo's Gr

[gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

2011-05-16 Thread Felix Miata
;s an Apache utility for doing this that I just don't know about? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] chicken <--> egg (NFS & tty video) (Fixed!)

2011-05-16 Thread Felix Miata
;1"s represents more than 6. Indi misread 1101011b as 10100111b, while "6" is only 110b. :-) -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] is a nice "place" :-D

2011-05-16 Thread Felix Miata
work, but I'm not sure there aren't booby traps besides 2nd or more whitespace instances I'm not considering, even though it gets the same answer for this particular case. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] No KMS for ATI Rage* (was: Goodbye, Gentoo)

2011-05-27 Thread Felix Miata
rstanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] chrome and everything

2011-06-03 Thread Felix Miata
!important;} in user stylesheets don't hurt either. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

[gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
ir understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
Grant Edwards composed on 2015-08-04 17:20 (UTC): > Felix Miata wrote: >> That's right, May 2011, my first and only Gentoo installation, 32 bit on an >> old Athlon, which means no sse2, and kernel 2.6.37. It coexists in multiboot >> on one HD with 12 installations o

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
ir understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-04 18:44 (UTC+0100): > On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 13:12:42 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> 6-# emerge portage >> This produced a longish warning: >> !!! /etc/make.profile is not a symlink and will probably prevent most >> merges. !!! It

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-04 21:36 (UTC+0100): > On Tue, 04 Aug 2015 15:32:51 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> I've yet to figure out how to get a list of >> all installed packages akin to 'rpm -qa | sort', so I really don't know >> what my starti

Re: [gentoo-user] want to upgrade 50 month old installation

2015-08-04 Thread Felix Miata
of problem > would most likely disappear; so the wider community could delve into other > technical support issues.. YMMV. I get the feeling Gentoo isn't a right choice for people who need a "simple installation semantic". -- "The wise are known for their unders

[gentoo-user] 'tar xvjpf stage3-*.tar.bz2 --xattrs' failed with unknown option --xattrs

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
hy the apparent arch error message. ??? -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
Felix Miata composed on 2015-08-05 22:23 (UTC-0400): > After reading > https://wiki.gentoo.org/wiki/Handbook:X86/Installation/Media#Minimal_installation_CD > which does not link to it until after its first mention I spent considerable > time on http://mirrors.us.kernel.org/gentoo/ tr

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
Fernando Rodriguez composed on 2015-08-05 23:46 (UTC-0400): > On Wednesday, August 05, 2015 10:23:03 PM Felix Miata wrote: ... >> all seemed to be arch-agnostic, so this is the one I tried (newest >> pre-Grub2): ... > What makes you think it's arch agnostic when it say

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
Jc García composed on 2015-08-05 23:02 (UTC-0600): > 2015-08-05 22:40 GMT-06:00 Felix Miata ocmposed: >> Fernando Rodriguez composed on 2015-08-05 23:46 (UTC-0400): >>> http://lmgtfy.com/?q=download+gentoo >> Pages like that leads to are like Windows and Sourceforge

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-05 Thread Felix Miata
t;, at least for me who installed Gentoo only once previously, more than 4 years ago. -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
Jc García composed on 2015-08-05 23:57 (UTC-0600): > Felix Miata composed: >> Are you sure you read what I wrote and not what you think I wrote? Pages like >> LMGTFY *leads to*, not LMGTFY. I was where that *leads to* yesterday and the >> day before while progress

gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org

2015-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
ntally stronger, and less distracted. Dogged persistence isn't a positive attribute in every context. Sleep gets short changed, and failure snowballs. Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-06 09:10 (UTC+0100): > On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 03:59:44 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> 1-Distrowatch is what

[gentoo-user] boots, but not on first try

2015-08-06 Thread Felix Miata
o-ip.com/Tmp/Linux/G/config-4.0.5-gentoo-gx780.txt -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] boots, but not on first try

2015-08-07 Thread Felix Miata
Neil Bothwick composed on 2015-08-07 08:56 (UTC+0100): > On Thu, 06 Aug 2015 23:34:56 -0400, Felix Miata wrote: >> I got ahead of things I suppose on the bootloader instructions, which >> include no example for Grub 0.97. I did emerge -s grub to identify the >> package n

[gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-07 Thread Felix Miata
han a kernel compile. :-( -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/

Re: [gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-08 Thread Felix Miata
Fernando Rodriguez composed on 2015-08-08 03:43 (UTC-0400): > Felix Miata wrote: >> I don't get why any distro leaves this out, why anyone wouldn't like to >> automatically notice while booting any announcement that something failed, >> especially someone who has

Re: [gentoo-user] why --noclear not set on tty1 in default /etc/inittab?

2015-08-08 Thread Felix Miata
bugzilla.opensuse.org/show_bug.cgi?id=721660 -- "The wise are known for their understanding, and pleasant words are persuasive." Proverbs 16:21 (New Living Translation) Team OS/2 ** Reg. Linux User #211409 ** a11y rocks! Felix Miata *** http://fm.no-ip.com/