[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said: Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it shortly. Done, uploaded to the same place: http://starship.python.net/crew/marduk/base-dist.vmdk.bz2 I also made the

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com writes: resolved I kept getting really strange output from emerge. It appeared to be the output of something like vmstat or maybe the upper portion of `top'. Stuff about user loads and such... right after the first few lines of emerge output, and nothing was

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 1 at 10:36 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: On Tuesday, June 28 at 10:57 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said: Anyway, I will rebuild an image with AHCI support and upload it shortly. Done, uploaded to the same place:

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 1 at 11:55 (-0400), Albert Hopkins said: Oh, I'm referring to the 4GB version. The 10GB version demands a password so couldn't even start on it. That should not be the case with it requiring a password, or else I uploaded the wrong image. Nevertheless, I'll upload

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: [...] Yeah, sorry if I didn't mention before. In the interest of size, I remove the portage tree (and also kernel sources) before creating the image. So in order to do portage-related stuff one must first: # emerge --sync [...] Should

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: [...] Yeah, sorry if I didn't mention before. In the interest of size, I remove the portage tree (and also kernel sources) before creating the image. So in order to do

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 1 at 11:42 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: In the shell where the initial login came up I keep seeing this every 5 minutes: INIT: ld so respawning too fast: disabled for 5 minutes Oh, you can also do this manually by commenting out the s0 entry in /etc/inittab. -a

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: [...] You've never heard of FEATURES (or --jobs)? May want to peruse the man pages a bit. FEATURES is a very fundamental part of portage (man make.conf). Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for several yrs with no

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Alex Schuster
Harry Putnam writes: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: You've never heard of FEATURES (or --jobs)? May want to peruse the man pages a bit. FEATURES is a very fundamental part of portage (man make.conf). Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 1 at 14:10 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: Sorry for being a lazy slug... I've used the same /etc/make.conf for several yrs with no problems... so didn't really think to look there. That's why I asked... didn't know where to look... dumb perhaps but just didn't cross my mind.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread James Wall
Thanks for the appliance image. it has come in handy for trying out multiple ideas and setups at once on my machine. Keep up the great work Albert! :) -- No trees were harmed in the sending of this message. However, a large number of electrons were terribly inconvenienced.

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 1 at 17:44 (-0500), James Wall said: Thanks for the appliance image. it has come in handy for trying out multiple ideas and setups at once on my machine. Keep up the great work Albert! :) You're welcome. I do have other appliances other than the base appliance. For

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Harry Putnam
Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: Well, thanks for pointing out the error in my appliance creation script that mistakenly sets up the serial console on non-headless VMs. I've fixed the bug and created and uploaded a new image. My tiny input isn't much... the big thanks goes to

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Albert Hopkins
On Friday, July 1 at 19:22 (-0500), Harry Putnam said: Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: [...] At the risk of exposing further ignorance on my part, I'm curious what it means in fstab where you have: /.swap none swap sw0 0 At the swap line.

[gentoo-user] RE: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-07-01 Thread Pandu Poluan
-original message- Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance From: Harry Putnam rea...@newsguy.com Date: 2011-07-02 07:22 Albert Hopkins mar...@letterboxes.org writes: Well, thanks for pointing out the error in my appliance creation script that mistakenly sets up

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Harry Putnam
Mark Knecht markkne...@gmail.com writes: Hi Harry, I have an up-to-date Gentoo 64-bit/KDE Virtualbox VM but I haven't tested it on a Windows host. I suppose could try that given some time. I'd have no problem donating a copy if people wanted it and there was some public place that we

[gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance

2011-06-22 Thread Harry Putnam
kashani kashani-l...@badapple.net writes: On 6/22/2011 2:52 PM, Harry Putnam wrote: If that isn't available maybe someone has a fairly current kernel config that is known to boot on a windows host with guest gentoo. http://badapple.net/files/gentoo-vbox.config Windows 7, vbox 4.0.8,