Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge @system causing gcc downgrade

2017-03-09 Thread White, Phil
I wish! Sorry - until I have a 'proper' system working again, I am stuck with webmail... :( Thanks again for everyone's help. Phil

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge @system causing gcc downgrade

2017-03-07 Thread White, Phil
nfig to choose which one to use. What does gcc-config -l > show? > Just the one line: [1] i686-pc-linux-gnu-4.9.4 I *think*, that with little time and patience, I can now sort this out. Thanks for the emerge -e hint. It doesn't seem to be in the emerge man page, though. What is the long-option name? Kind regards, Phil

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge @system causing gcc downgrade

2017-03-07 Thread White, Phil
mess? Bite the bullet, emerge gcc, and then do a depclean - or can I convince portage that gcc 4.9.4 is really here? Thanks, Phil On 7 March 2017 at 15:38, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Tue, 7 Mar 2017 15:07:32 +, White, Phil wrote: > > > I have a new install of Gentoo. > >

Re: [gentoo-user] Emerge @system causing gcc downgrade

2017-03-07 Thread White, Phil
Sorry Alan, that results in no extra information from emerge. Still only gcc listed for installation - and nothing else. -- Phil On 7 March 2017 at 15:08, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 07/03/2017 17:07, White, Phil wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm sorry. This is probably a rea

[gentoo-user] Emerge @system causing gcc downgrade

2017-03-07 Thread White, Phil
w why a new slot is being pulled in? (I wouldn't particularly mind, but as I am on an old x86 celeron, this will take hours to complete, for no obvious benefit...) Thanks Phil

Re: [gentoo-user] Rear & Genkernel

2017-03-07 Thread White, Phil
issue described previously. So firstly I need to know whether Genkernel is incorrectly naming the kernel, or whether Rear is looking for the wrong name. Cheers, Phil On 6 March 2017 at 22:25, Alan McKinnon wrote: > On 06/03/2017 23:55, White, Phil wrote: > > Hi, > > > > I'm no

[gentoo-user] Rear & Genkernel

2017-03-06 Thread White, Phil
th my i686 machine. Running the same configuration on a 64-bit machine works fine) Question: How am I going to fix this? I don't want to hard code anything in the config file, as this will break when I update the kernel... Is this a 'bug'? Thanks in advance, Phil

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2008-01-30 Thread Phil Sexton
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Re: [gentoo-user] mplayerplug-in not working

2007-08-13 Thread Phil Sexton
/usr/lib/nsbrowser/plugins/mplayerplug-in.so ./ But after restarting firefox, I cannot see videos... any clue? Have you installed the essential codecs? http://www.mplayerhq.hu/design7/dload.html -- Phil Sexton: http://www.myspace.com/philsexton Praise Whistlers Abroad: http://praisewhistler

Re: [gentoo-user] Very OT - gnome-panel notification area applet

2006-12-06 Thread Phil Sexton
to no success so far on google. Any hints would be appreciated... -Michael Sullivan- Perhaps this will install an app to do what you want? emerge x11-misc/alacarte -- Phil Sexton Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.o

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

2006-08-17 Thread Phil Sexton
Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: /etc/conf.d/local.start Gentoo is the only distribution I have seen use that particular file, What file? /etc/conf.d/net? No, the file I was speaking of, /etc/conf.d/local.start -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

2006-08-17 Thread Phil Sexton
Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: I didn't think you had to run it manually unless you want to. Can't you call if from /etc/conf.d/local.start Sure, but why do that? Why not use the mechanisms, that Gentoo forsees for this? I thought that was the purpose of that fi

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

2006-08-17 Thread Phil Sexton
under construction. I use a portable usb drive for my mobile data needs. -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

2006-08-17 Thread Phil Sexton
Alexander Skwar wrote: Strange. Why is the script there? What script? The script I mentioned before: /bin/hostname and the symlinks that point to it, /bin/domainname and /bin/dnsdomainname -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi&#

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

2006-08-17 Thread Phil Sexton
Pardon my thick skull. Alexander Skwar, I appoligise for my last post. Darn this morphine I have to take for my pain. I am confusing hostname and domain name. I still don't understand why the script isn't supposed to be used to set hostnane/domainname though. -- Phil Sexton My

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

2006-08-17 Thread Phil Sexton
Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: I just used the command: # domainname uilleann That's not a domainname, as there are no dots (.). Granted, a domain doesn't have to have dots, but it's very unusual to have a TLD. I am thouroughly confused now. I

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

2006-08-16 Thread Phil Sexton
Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: Here is another guess: How about /etc/conf.d/domainname? Yep, should be configured as well. But as you can see there, it doesn't set the domainname of the system: # DNSDOMAIN merely sets the domain entry in /etc/resolv.conf, see # the resolv

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

2006-08-16 Thread Phil Sexton
e. So, it's not "as always". So, where is it set then? The /etc/conf.d/domainname is in my system. Why isn't it removed if it is obsolete? -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

2006-08-16 Thread Phil Sexton
Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: Anthony E Caudel wrote: Phil Sexton wrote: Anthony E Caudel wrote: Mike wrote: Anthony E. Caudel wrote: As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

2006-08-16 Thread Phil Sexton
Alexander Skwar wrote: Phil Sexton schrieb: I thought domainname was set in /etc/hosts. No, it's not. NIS doesn't use /etc/hosts for these things. Here is my /etc/conf.d/hostname: # Set to the hostname of this machine HOSTNAME="uilleann.fancypiper.info" That

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

2006-08-16 Thread Phil Sexton
Anthony E Caudel wrote: Phil Sexton wrote: Anthony E Caudel wrote: Mike wrote: Anthony E. Caudel wrote: As of baselayout-1.12.4, the domainname init script is no longer used and the Gentoo Handbook no longer tells how to set the domainname. domainname now returns "(none)" /

Re: [gentoo-user] How to set domainname

2006-08-16 Thread Phil Sexton
domain but if this is used, it overwrites /etc/resolv.conf. So how is the domainname now set? Tony /etc/hosts ? Well, perhaps. It is in my /etc/hosts. But domainname still returns (none) Tony You should stop using /etc/hostname and use /etc/conf.d/hostname -- Phil Sexton My Home

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge messages (baselayout)...

2006-08-13 Thread Phil Sexton
Gian Domeni Calgeer wrote: You can tell portage where to log these messages with the PORTAGE_ELOG_* Variables. Have a look at /etc/make.conf.example. Gian Boy, am I behind the times. Thanks, that works much better than the script I found. -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http

Re: [gentoo-user] emerge messages (baselayout)...

2006-08-13 Thread Phil Sexton
t move /etc/hostname to /etc/conf.d/hostname and it should be fine. Mine doesn't save those messages either that I can find. Maybe someone else will come along with help on that part. Perhaps enotice would do that for you. http://www.fmp.com/enotice/ -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fa

[gentoo-user] Grub stanza for Windows on /dev/sda1

2006-08-06 Thread Phil Sexton
Hi Listees, What would be the drive numbers that I would need to replace this: rootnoverify (hd0,0) if I have Windows installed on /dev/sda1 rather than /dev/hda1? I can't find it in the docs I have read. TIA -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes

Re: [gentoo-user] ALSA_CARDS in /etc/make.conf for two sound cards

2006-07-19 Thread Phil Sexton
Jason Weisberger wrote: Phil, That's correct, although you don't need the caps. It's just ice1712. Not sure if that will affect it or not. In the future, you will want to look at the ALSA wiki article, which contains directions on where to find the names of your sound car

[gentoo-user] ALSA_CARDS in /etc/make.conf for two sound cards

2006-07-19 Thread Phil Sexton
: nVidia Corporation NV36.2 [GeForce FX 5700] ( rev a1) I put this in my /etc/make.conf file # Set video and sound card(s) VIDEO_CARDS="nv nvidia vesa" ALSA_CARDS="emu10k1 ICE1712" Is that correct for my M-Audio Delta 1010 sound card? -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypi

Re: [gentoo-user] Sound and video card variables

2006-07-18 Thread Phil Sexton
e after I get my new box (uilleann) built. I dread installing Windows XP Pro yet again. -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] Sound and video card variables

2006-07-18 Thread Phil Sexton
U10k1" If this isn't correct, what should I put and where? -- Phil Sexton My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Free tunes: ftp://fancypiper.info/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] OT - Anyone recommend a good puzzle app?

2006-05-06 Thread Phil Sexton
ey do & an URL for further info. I like: esearch --fullname --verbose games-puzzle | less -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system

2006-04-28 Thread Phil Sexton
Hemmann Volker Armin wrote: Only, and really only after a kernel update you need to reboot. Perhaps not even then. http://www-128.ibm.com/developerworks/linux/library/l-adfly.html -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy:

Re: [gentoo-user] When to reboot after updates to the system

2006-04-28 Thread Phil Sexton
read somewhere how to change kernels without rebooting, so you may not even need to reboot for any software. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info/ Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy/ Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ Free tunes: ftp://http://fancypiper.info/ -- ge

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: "Space" opera

2006-04-08 Thread Phil Sexton
Mick wrote: On 08/04/06, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: cd /mnt/source tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/destination && tar xBfp -) What does B do? I can't understand the manual! :-( -- Regards, Mick I'm not 100 percent sure that I understand it, but I use it si

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: "Space" opera

2006-04-07 Thread Phil Sexton
source tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/destination && tar xBfp -) See man tar for the flags. http://linux.oreillynet.com/pub/a/linux/lpt/18_16.html -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/ -- gentoo-

Re: [gentoo-user] Card games in portage

2006-03-28 Thread Phil Sexton
amers' FAQ http://icculus.org/lgfaq/ The Linux Game List http://www.icculus.org/lgfaq/gamelist.php The Linux Game Tome http://www.happypenguin.org/ -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy: http://www.naomisfancy.net/

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

2006-01-27 Thread Phil Sexton
Ernie Schroder wrote: On Friday 27 January 2006 10:41, a tiny voice compelled Phil Sexton to write: Ernie Schroder wrote: I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? This should do it: gcc -v Maybe I wasn&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] gcc version used for build?

2006-01-27 Thread Phil Sexton
Ernie Schroder wrote: I used to know this but I can't find info today. How do I tell which version of gcc was used to compile my kernel? This should do it: gcc -v -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performan

Re: [gentoo-user] OT: XP laptop crashes Linsys router.

2006-01-25 Thread Phil Sexton
Ernie Schroder wrote: Is there no way of restarting the network on XP? From the dos prompt, command: ipconfig /renew (I think) -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualav

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list

2006-01-22 Thread Phil Sexton
Dimitar Toshev wrote: On Friday 20 January 2006 19:44, Phil Sexton wrote: Michael A Smith wrote: Phil Sexton wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list

2006-01-20 Thread Phil Sexton
Michael A Smith wrote: Phil Sexton wrote: Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less Isn't t

Re: [gentoo-user] Packages list

2006-01-19 Thread Phil Sexton
Felipe Ribeiro wrote: Where do I find the list with all installed packages? Cheers, Felipe The ones you emerged are listed in the file: /var/lib/portage/world Want it in alphabetical order? cat /var/lib/portage/world|less -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http

Re: [gentoo-user] Generic 2 monitor/2 keyboard question

2005-12-23 Thread Phil Sexton
Phil Sexton wrote: Some stuff that wasn't grammatically correct... I hope that made a little sense, especially the non native English speakers. I see my pain med must be kicking in... -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi&#x

Re: [gentoo-user] Generic 2 monitor/2 keyboard question

2005-12-23 Thread Phil Sexton
box and see if they will run on that. I don't see how some folks can be more dense than I am as I have to take prednisone and morphine, two of the worst mind altering drugs I know of (and prednisone is the worst, the morphine just makes me drunk and clumsy). HTH -- Phil My Home Page: htt

Re: [gentoo-user] Generic 2 monitor/2 keyboard question

2005-12-20 Thread Phil Sexton
d this project. Sorry I can't help more. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Generic 2 monitor/2 keyboard question

2005-12-20 Thread Phil Sexton
based upon. http://www.k12ltsp.org/ -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] What provides emaint?

2005-12-09 Thread Phil Sexton
Hi Gentoo folk, I can't find the package that provides the emaint command. I browsed through esearch --fullname --verbose app-admin|less, but found nothing that looked promising. Any hints/tips? -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomis

Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot

2005-12-07 Thread Phil Sexton
Phil Sexton wrote: Jerry Turba wrote: I seem to remember vaguely that 3 beeps indicates ram or video card problem. Video card problems is a morse code B, 3 short beeps and a long beep on all the boxen I have ever seen. That should be one long beep followed by 3 short ones. -- Phil

Re: [gentoo-user] Yikes, what have I done 3 1 seconds beeps on boot

2005-12-07 Thread Phil Sexton
Jerry Turba wrote: I seem to remember vaguely that 3 beeps indicates ram or video card problem. Video card problems is a morse code B, 3 short beeps and a long beep on all the boxen I have ever seen. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy

Re: [gentoo-user] how to regain control of mouse

2005-12-06 Thread Phil Sexton
Willie Wong wrote: On Mon, Dec 05, 2005 at 11:45:01PM -0500, Phil Sexton wrote: Willie Wong wrote: Or is there some way of getting the mouse back in a situation like this? This should work as root: /etc/conf.d/gpm restart' uh... shouldn't that be /etc/init.d/? and gpm is t

Re: [gentoo-user] alsa driver problem

2005-11-30 Thread Phil Sexton
Arnau Bria Ramírez wrote: I compiled the driver into the kernel (not as module): SND_AC97_CODEC There is your problem. See the install guide. Sound is supposed to be compiled as a module if you use alsa. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com

Re: [gentoo-user] openoffice 2.0 - compiling or binary

2005-11-30 Thread Phil Sexton
file: PORTAGE_NICENESS=19 Compiling a new proggie slows the system down a little bit, but I can still run anything I want and use my system while building something else to play with. -- Phil My Home Page: http://fancypiper.info Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy pe

[gentoo-user] yet more ALSA trouble

2005-11-13 Thread Phil Thomson
hich recently closed, but I'm still a bit of a newbie to Linux, so I may be missing something obvious. Thanks in advance for any help or advice. PT -- Phil Thomson, BFA, MFA 01010110111010010110111001010100011011100110110101110011011001101110 [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.sfu.ca/~pthomson/ -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] gentoo icons

2005-08-02 Thread phil
oh bugger sorry was being lazy didnt realise id hijack your thread :-( On Tue, 2005-08-02 at 19:11 +0100, phil wrote: > i dont suppose there is an easy way of using the gentoo icons other than > doing each one by hand? > -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

[gentoo-user] gentoo icons

2005-08-02 Thread phil
i dont suppose there is an easy way of using the gentoo icons other than doing each one by hand? -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] CDRW trouble: can't read superblock

2005-06-08 Thread Phil Sexton
://www.icon.co.za/~psheer/book/node22.html.gz#SECTION00227 Burn an audio CD (2.4 kernel) cdrecord driveropts=burnfree -v -audio -pad speed=8 dev=0,0,0 /home/fancy/naomisfancy/1st_cd/*.wav;eject -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performance

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: Error when emerging dialog

2005-06-03 Thread Phil Sexton
that doesn't fix it, I put the package in the USE line of /etc/make.conf file and: emerge --update --deep --newuse world Eventually, you may need to run: fix_libtool_files.sh 3.3.5 when your gcc is updated to a version above 3.3.5. At least, I have had to. -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdba

Re: [gentoo-user] Does a stage 2 or 3 install eventually catch up with stage 1?

2005-06-02 Thread Phil Sexton
On Thu, 2005-06-02 at 20:20, Mark Shields wrote: > That's an interesting idea, Phil. Perhaps a livecd that works like > Knoppix, where you can choose to install it to your system? Actually, I did use a Knoppix CD to install both Gentoo and Debian SID on my 5 boot box (Windows XP Pro,

Re: [gentoo-user] Does a stage 2 or 3 install eventually catch up with stage 1?

2005-06-02 Thread Phil Sexton
the new portage tree, I then emerge --update --deep --newuse world I think I have essentially a stage 1 install without having to re-compile working stuff that needs no changes. -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.ne

Re: [gentoo-user] Clarification on iso downloads

2005-05-31 Thread Phil Sexton
tegory/18 -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Wave Cleaner question

2005-05-30 Thread Phil Sexton
On Mon, 2005-05-30 at 04:44, Nick Rout wrote: > what is wrong with alsa's oss emulation? My poor memory, perhaps? :) -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Gnome Wave Cleaner question

2005-05-29 Thread Phil Sexton
u may use oss also, as alsa has oss simulation). Thanks. Here goes another kernel compile! I have downloaded bplay-0.992.tar.gz gwc-0.19-10.tgz gwc-0.20-10b.tgz gwc-lib-0.05.tgz track_rec-0.03.tgz wavlist.tgz Which version are you running? gwc-0.19-10 or gwc-0.20-10b? -- Phil Our 2nd CD: htt

[gentoo-user] Gnome Wave Cleaner question

2005-05-29 Thread Phil Sexton
blems if I compile my kernel with OSS enabled in the kernel. I haven't tried the drivers as a module. Could that be worked around using a module? BTW, I haven't been able to download the tarball for it yet to even attempt to get it going. TIA -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.

Re: [gentoo-user] how to delete messages from server in Kmail

2005-05-28 Thread Phil Sexton
: http://www.catb.org/~esr/fetchmail/ and http://www.hserus.net/pop_smtp.html -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to delete messages from server in Kmail

2005-05-28 Thread Phil Sexton
Evolution/mutt mail directories. -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Mounting CD as a user

2005-05-26 Thread Phil Sexton
n.co.za/~psheer/book/node22.html.gz#SECTION002270000 -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] how to boot from floppy and install gentoo

2005-05-18 Thread Phil Sexton
option? Yes, that message means that the tar program it runs doesn't support the -j option. I quit suggesting that Toms Root and Boot was usable as he hasn't changed it in the 6 years that I have been using Linux. Check out a currently supported floppy distro and you could get off and runni

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 13:05, Neil Bothwick wrote: > On Sat, 14 May 2005 12:53:31 -0400, Phil Sexton wrote: > > > With the Gentoo install, you are limited to > > 6 virtual terminals to work with in the chroot environment. > > There is no such limit, because the Gentoo liv

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 12:53, Phil Sexton wrote: Another oopsi! > # First emerges emerge sync > emerge system -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Sat, 2005-05-14 at 12:53, Phil Sexton wrote: > # Make mountpoints and format partitions. > mkdir /mnt/gentoo > mkreiserfs /dev/hdb3 > mount /dev/hdb3 /mnt/gentoo > mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot > mount /dev/hdb1 /mnt/gentoo/boot > mkswap /dev/hdb2 > swapon > mkdir /mnt/g

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-14 Thread Phil Sexton
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 21:26, THUFIR HAWAT wrote: > On 5/13/05, Phil Sexton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > [..] > > By commands, actually. You can even install Gentoo from your > > running Fedora installation, or from a Linux Live CD such as > > Knoppix. > [..] &g

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-13 Thread Phil Sexton
this: http://www.gentoo.org/doc/en/handbook/handbook-x86.xml -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-12 Thread Phil Sexton
On Fri, 2005-05-13 at 00:07, Phil Sexton wrote: > I notice pfat linux (was that it's name) has disappeared I was wrong. See: http://www.phatlinux.com/ -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.htm

Re: [gentoo-user] installing to VFAT partition

2005-05-12 Thread Phil Sexton
ny of these, though as I seldom saw any good reviews. -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Howl build error

2005-05-09 Thread Phil Sexton
www/mozplugger ~x86 >> /etc/portage/package.keywords You can also use the usual symbols such as >=net-www/mozplugger- ~x86 -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: scripts that send emails

2005-05-02 Thread Phil Sexton
nd line" > > gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > > (thats all one line of course) > > end with 'nail' you can add attachments too to your mail -> emerge nail. Oops! Apparently you can't use nail with mailx. What MTA do you use? Sendmail? uilleann / # emerg

Re: [gentoo-user] compaq 2500 no /dev/dsp

2005-04-30 Thread Phil Sexton
iated > Antoine We have no idea of what your sound card is. As root, post the sound card part of the output of: cat /proc/pci and/or lspci How to get good answers with your questions about Linux: http://www.catb.org/~esr/faqs/smart-questions.html -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdba

Re: [gentoo-user] memory used

2005-04-22 Thread Phil Sexton
ptimizing Linux Memory: http://www.home.linuxjournal.com/article.php?sid=2770 -- Phil Our 2nd CD: http://www.cdbaby.com/naomisfancy Naomi's Fancy performances: http://naomisfancy.virtualave.net/schedule.html -- gentoo-user@gentoo.org mailing list