[gentoo-user] advice about Gentoo (Oracle, Java, VMWare...)

2012-01-26 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, I have been a former user, and in my new occupation I think Gentoo could be a perfect tool. Context - I admin a server for PHP and Java Web developers - I have to run a Gentoo host which have LXC guests (also Gentoo-only). - About the LXC guests -- 1 LXC guest with PHP4 (with custom ./

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: advice about Gentoo (Oracle, Java, VMWare...)

2012-01-26 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 01/26/2012 03:33 PM, Nikos Chantziaras wrote: Installing Oracle's Java is not so easy: http://goo.gl/tbBFW This isn't Java. Yes, sorry, this is not Java, it's Oracle DB, but I'll have to setup an Oracle database too. Is it really that complicated for that particular software? -- RMA.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: advice about Gentoo (Oracle, Java, VMWare...)

2012-01-27 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On 01/27/2012 10:48 AM, Alan McKinnon wrote: Installing Oracle's Java is not so easy: http://goo.gl/tbBFW This isn't Java. Yes, sorry, this is not Java, it's Oracle DB, but I'll have to setup an Oracle database too. Is it really that complicated for that particular software? Dude, It's Oracle.

Re: [gentoo-user] Mailing list policy on reply

2010-07-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
> Nicolas Sebrecht : >It is usually better and prefer the "answer to all" If the replier-to-all thinks of removing unwanted recipients, yes. But most of the time, people "reply-to-really-all" and that annoys. Among that, when replying-to-all, messages "To:" the mailing list are "List-id"/"X-Mail

Re: [gentoo-user] [WAY OT] wanna learn networking internals

2015-09-02 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
In order to complete other answers, I woul like to point out a test environment that would be nice: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marionnet

[gentoo-user] freedesktop server alternative

2007-01-05 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi all, Happy new year and so on... Freedesktop's servers are not up yet. Gentoo really needs to find alternate sources of tarballs for freedestop related stuff... Would you try it from your ISP please? May be it's my ISP problem... -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] net.eth0 device initiated services

2007-01-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi, I have /etc/init.d/net.eth0. I dont want it to be launch at boot, but I dont want to delete it either because it eases some things when I want to bring eth0 up. My problem is although i "del" it from the boot process with rc-update, net.eth0 is attempted to be brought up by some other tool. W

[gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

2007-01-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
Hi, I am emerging X, and xextproto emerging is blocked by a freedesktop server timeout. What could be the solution (except waiting...)? Is there any other way to get it as from a "down" server? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

2007-01-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:36 +0100, Mihamina Rakotomandimby wrote: > Hi, > I am emerging X, and xextproto emerging is blocked by a freedesktop > server timeout. > What could be the solution (except waiting...)? ftp://ftp.x.org/pub/individual/ and then mirror "lib/", "d

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

2007-01-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 20:14 +0900, William Kenworthy wrote: > or google for xextproto-7.0.2.tar.bz2 and download manually > to /usr/portage/distfiles It's about downloading _all_ the needed tarballs hosted on freedesktop, man. Manual way is not wise... I created a local mirror using ftp.x.org (se

Re: [gentoo-user] xorg.freedesktop.org server down, xextproto

2007-01-03 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby
On Wed, 2007-01-03 at 11:57 -0600, Dan wrote: > if you have a list of gentoo mirrors in make.conf, namely the kind of > list generated by mirrorselect, you will get the cascading mirror > thingyou desire. Be warned though, i have never found it a helpful > remedy. But I noticed "X" stuffs relate

[gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c

2007-01-11 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I have an USB scanner HP2200c. It is automatically detected and used with Fedora and Ubuntu. But on my personnal laptop, I use Gentoo and I would like it to be detected. I have installed xsane and its dependencies (sane-backends, hplip,...) When I launch xsane, it says it does not detect any

[gentoo-user] compiling r1000 module

2007-01-12 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
I try to compile the r1000 module for my laptop. asus ~ # uname -r 2.6.18-xen asus ~ # tar xzf r1000_v1.05.tgz asus ~ # cd r1000_v1.05 asus r1000_v1.05 # make clean modules make -C src/ clean make[1]: Entering directory `/root/r1000_v1.05/s

Re: [gentoo-user] usb scanner HP2200c

2007-01-12 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 10:19 +, Neil Bothwick wrote: > What are the results of running "scanimage --list-devices" both as root > and a normal user? Permission problems can cause scanimage or xsane to not > find the scanner while sane-find-scanner will. As root: # scanimage --list-device

Re: [gentoo-user] compiling r1000 module

2007-01-12 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
On Fri, 2007-01-12 at 23:04 +0100, Hans-Werner Hilse wrote: > Hi, > > On Fri, 12 Jan 2007 22:46:02 +0100 > "Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > I try to compile the r1000 module for my laptop. > > [...] > > mak

[gentoo-user] [Xen] How to set or bring up "vif" interfaces?

2007-01-13 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, I would like to have Xen to run unmodified OS (Windows, and some other Linuces). I know Linux may be ran Xen-aware, but the goal is to experiment some kernel packaging, so that I need to use the distribution kernel. I got the FC5 isos. I made a file "/etc/xen/fc5-guest.cfg" (see attached) But t

[gentoo-user] Asus F3JV AS022P installation tips

2007-01-14 Thread Mihamina Rakotomandimby (R12y)
Hi, For people intending to buy an Asus F3JV-x: http://www.asso-polyvalente.fr/workspaces/members/mihamina/public/asus-f3jv-as022p Cheers -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list