Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread antlists
On 15/10/2020 21:07, Jack wrote: However, and I have no experience here, although some systems can boot in BIOS mode to a GPT partitioned disk, there may be extra hoops to jump through.  I'm sure others will chime in with additional information. I don't think my current system has EFI, and it

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 16:07:50 -0400, Jack wrote: > In some sense, that's actually simpler, since you > don't need an ESP/EFI partition. Not really an issue if you use a separate /boot as the same partition does for both. > If your disk is formatted with an MBR > partitioning scheme (max four

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jack
On 2020.10.15 15:19, Jude DaShiell wrote: On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jack wrote: > On 10/15/20 1:28 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > [snip...] I just found out efi variables are not available on my new system. portage is also upset. !!! Repository 'x-portage is missing masters attribute in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jack wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:48:01 > From: Jack > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile > > On 10/15/20 1:28 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: > [snip...]

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Walter Dnes wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 14:00:36 > From: Walter Dnes > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile > > On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 01:28:52PM -0400

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Neil Bothwick
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020 13:48:01 -0400, Jack wrote: > > I just found out efi variables are not available on my new system. > > On the other issue, what do you mean that efi variables are not > available?  Is the system purely BIOS?  That is certainly possible if > it is an older motherboard.  If

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Walter Dnes
On Thu, Oct 15, 2020 at 01:28:52PM -0400, Jude DaShiell wrote > I just found out efi variables are not available on my new system. > portage is also upset. > !!! Repository 'x-portage is missing masters attribute in > '/usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf' > !!! !!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread antlists
On 15/10/2020 17:31, Jack wrote: On 2020.10.15 00:03, Wols Lists wrote: On 14/10/20 22:37, Jack wrote: Why do you need two graphics cards?  I've been driving two monitors off each of the last several graphics cards I've used - both nVidia and ATI, from simple PCI to PCIE needing the extra

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jack
On 10/15/20 1:28 PM, Jude DaShiell wrote: [snip...] I just found out efi variables are not available on my new system. portage is also upset. !!! Repository 'x-portage is missing masters attribute in '/usr/local/portage/metadata/layout.conf' !!! !!! Set 'masters = gentoo' in this file for future

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jude DaShiell
On Thu, 15 Oct 2020, Jack wrote: > Date: Thu, 15 Oct 2020 12:31:55 > From: Jack > Reply-To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org > Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile > > On 2020.10.15 00:03, Wols Lists wrote: > >On 14/10/20

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-15 Thread Jack
On 2020.10.15 00:03, Wols Lists wrote: On 14/10/20 22:37, Jack wrote: Why do you need two graphics cards? I've been driving two monitors off each of the last several graphics cards I've used - both nVidia and ATI, from simple PCI to PCIE needing the extra power connector. Because I'm not

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-14 Thread Wols Lists
On 14/10/20 22:37, Jack wrote: > Why do you need two graphics cards? I've been driving two monitors off > each of the last several graphics cards I've used - both nVidia and ATI, > from simple PCI to PCIE needing the extra power connector. Because I'm not driving two monitors. I'm running a

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-14 Thread Manuel McLure
On Wed, Oct 14, 2020 at 2:56 PM Grant Edwards wrote: > On 2020-10-14, antlists wrote: > > On 14/10/2020 19:58, Grant Edwards wrote: > >> On 2020-10-14, antlists wrote: > >> > >>> Does your mobo support NVMe drives? Just be aware my mobo is crap in > >>> that it says it supports two graphics

[gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-10-14, antlists wrote: > On 14/10/2020 19:58, Grant Edwards wrote: >> On 2020-10-14, antlists wrote: >> >>> Does your mobo support NVMe drives? Just be aware my mobo is crap in >>> that it says it supports two graphics cards, NVMe, etc, but if you stick >>> an NVMe in the second

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-14 Thread Jack
On 2020.10.14 16:02, antlists wrote: On 14/10/2020 19:58, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2020-10-14, antlists wrote: Does your mobo support NVMe drives? Just be aware my mobo is crap in that it says it supports two graphics cards, NVMe, etc, but if you stick an NVMe in the second graphics card is

Re: [gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-14 Thread antlists
On 14/10/2020 19:58, Grant Edwards wrote: On 2020-10-14, antlists wrote: Does your mobo support NVMe drives? Just be aware my mobo is crap in that it says it supports two graphics cards, NVMe, etc, but if you stick an NVMe in the second graphics card is disabled, or if you use both the NVMe

[gentoo-user] Re: tried desktop profile

2020-10-14 Thread Grant Edwards
On 2020-10-14, antlists wrote: > Does your mobo support NVMe drives? Just be aware my mobo is crap in > that it says it supports two graphics cards, NVMe, etc, but if you stick > an NVMe in the second graphics card is disabled, or if you use both the > NVMe slots you lose a couple of SATA