Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-24 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dan Nicholson wrote: > I thought the reason for using iproute2 was because net-tools is > unmaintained. Yes, when the discussion for the change took place, this was the main reason. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscri

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-24 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 7/23/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Craig Jackson wrote: > > I can hack the init scripts a bit to get it to work, but its > > command line parameters are not very intuitive. This was my least > > favorite upgrade from 5.x. I do understand the need for the update. > > (

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-23 Thread Craig Jackson
> > I would love a simple installer that copies the contents of the livecd > > to a "safe OS" partition, from which to build LFS or CLFS or whatever. > > > Sorry, the information how to do this was available before, and is still > available via private e-mail. However, due to dummies asking stupid

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-23 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Craig Jackson wrote: > Otherwise, I use > console due to the extreme performance hit of X when run from the > LiveCD. (Not sure why this is). > This is known to happen on machines with insufficient amount of RAM due to VM bug in the kernel, because it doesn't like the fact that our dm-snapsho

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-23 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Mon, Jul 23, 2007 at 12:57:14PM -0700, Craig Jackson wrote: > I would love a simple installer that copies the contents of the livecd > to a "safe OS" partition, from which to build LFS or CLFS or whatever. The most recent version does allow you to run the CD from a partition or USB flash drive.

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-23 Thread Craig Jackson
> 1) What version of the CD do you use/have? Currently, 6.2-5. For LFS 5.x production server builds, I use a LiveCD 5.x build I have archived. > 2) What do you use the CD most for? Building LFS and CLFS. I will use X on the CD only if I have no other way of browsing the net (like another machi

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-22 Thread A. Drosos
>1) What version of the CD do you use/have? The current version as of 2 months ago (I think it was pre6.2?) >2) What do you use the CD most for? Building LFS - Getting setup/configuration ideas - Rescue CD >3) What are the most useful parts of the CD to you? The setup/configuration ideas. It prov

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-19 Thread Matthew Burgess
On Thu, 19 Jul 2007 01:20:39 + (UTC), Steven <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I still don't know how to us iproute2 competently though I can sometimes > bumble my way into creating a useable network. Is there a concise > tutorial? Maybe I'll end up writing one... There's some documentation list

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-18 Thread Steven
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:29:52 -0600, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > 2) What do you use the CD most for? Rescue. > 3) What are the most useful parts of the CD to you? The shell. > 4) What is the most annoying or useless bits of the CD? Every time I get a new LiveCD I always have some new piece of ha

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-18 Thread kas
On Tuesday 17 July 2007 11:29:52 pm Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > 1) What version of the CD do you use/have? I'm using 6.3-r1952 although I have 6.2.5 also > 2) What do you use the CD most for? I'm exploring jhalfs ... basically just learning {,b,c}LFS ... but mostly I am just futzing around learni

RE: LiveCD Users

2007-07-18 Thread Ballentine, Casey
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Behalf Of Jeremy Huntwork Sent: Tuesday, July 17, 2007 10:30 PM To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; lfs-dev@linuxfromscratch.org; [EMAIL PROTECTED] Subject: LiveCD Users Hello, I'm aware that this is perhaps a little off-topic for the -

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-18 Thread Uwe Düffert
Hi, > 1) What version of the CD do you use/have? Some 6.2-x, when I last needed one, about half a year ago. > 2) What do you use the CD most for? booting a box where no working current Linux is installed, i.e. prior Linux installations are damaged, too old for a certain purpose or just not existi

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-18 Thread Bryan Kadzban
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: RIPEMD160 Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > 1) What version of the CD do you use/have? Looks like 6.2-5. > 2) What do you use the CD most for? Booting qemu to test the mkinitramfs package I'm doing. ;-) > 3) What are the most useful parts of the CD to you? Sup

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-18 Thread taipan67
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > William Harrington wrote: > >> I think it'd be a good idea to post this to all the mailing lists >> than just this one. >> > > Well, I did lfs-dev, lfs-chat, and livecd. You think there's bound to be > more users not covered on the other lists? > > -- > JH > > >

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-18 Thread TheOldFellow
On Tue, 17 Jul 2007 21:29:52 -0600 Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > The LiveCD project rarely hears much back from its end users, unless > Of course any other thoughts or comments are welcome. We really just > need to get an idea of how useful our project is to the community. If > it'

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-17 Thread William Harrington
On Jul 17, 2007, at 11:22 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > William Harrington wrote: >> I think it'd be a good idea to post this to all the mailing lists >> than just this one. > > Well, I did lfs-dev, lfs-chat, and livecd. You think there's bound > to be > more users not covered on the other lists

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-17 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
William Harrington wrote: > I think it'd be a good idea to post this to all the mailing lists > than just this one. Well, I did lfs-dev, lfs-chat, and livecd. You think there's bound to be more users not covered on the other lists? -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-d

Re: LiveCD Users

2007-07-17 Thread William Harrington
On Jul 17, 2007, at 10:29 PM, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Hello, > > I'm aware that this is perhaps a little off-topic for the -dev > list, but > I feel that this thread could really help future development of the > CD, > so please bear with me and help me out with as much feedback as you > ca

LiveCD Users

2007-07-17 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hello, I'm aware that this is perhaps a little off-topic for the -dev list, but I feel that this thread could really help future development of the CD, so please bear with me and help me out with as much feedback as you can muster. :) The LiveCD project rarely hears much back from its end users,