On Wed 31 Jan 2007 14:51:53 NZDT +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> Ah. I didn't appreciate your use of the words 'rescue disk' implied an
> all-in-ram system, like tom's root and boot or the BGrescue floppy disks.
I don't know whether the term "rescue disk" is generally understood to
mean all-
Hey Rob,
Robert Fisher wrote re:
Same thing happened to my Gentoo on Reiser.
Rik, if you are referring to the Gentoo system you started building in my
garage I think you had Reiser (not reiser4). (Did you ever get that system
going?)
Yep. Probly Reiser then - cupla years back.
It ran v.well
On Wednesday 31 January 2007, chris bayley wrote:
> Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > It's not in the kernel basically because Linus and Hans are, in effect,
> > a pair of non-communicating entities. Certainly that is the case
> > currently!
>
> I should think that with his recent activities Hans has
On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> On Wed 31 Jan 2007 12:32:02 NZDT +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> > Interesting to note that a Gentoo install lasted longer than all others
> > in the hands of a - computer wise - complete nitwit, simply because there
> > is no GUI for said
Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> It's not in the kernel basically because Linus and Hans are, in effect, a
> pair of non-communicating entities. Certainly that is the case currently!
>
>
I should think that with his recent activities Hans has isolated himself
from the majority of the worlds open
On Wed 31 Jan 2007 12:32:02 NZDT +1300, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
> Interesting to note that a Gentoo install lasted longer than all others in
> the hands of a - computer wise - complete nitwit, simply because there is no
> GUI for said nitwit to mindlessly point and click on and thus stuff u
On Wednesday 31 January 2007, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> On Tue 30 Jan 2007 21:12:56 NZDT +1300, yuri wrote:
> > >Rescue systems are intended more for those who
> > >know how to run them, man pages are not high on the list there,
> >
> > IOW no use to non-gurus.
It all depends on which rescue system
On Tue 30 Jan 2007 21:12:56 NZDT +1300, yuri wrote:
> >Rescue systems are intended more for those who
> >know how to run them, man pages are not high on the list there,
>
> IOW no use to non-gurus.
As I said, you could have used any of the live systems with kitchen
sink, they have man pages too,
> yuri wrote:
>>
>> Anyway, as Chris pointed out it would've been useless for reiser4
>> anyway.
>
> I thought that would be the case. Same thing happened to my Gentoo on
> Reiser.
Rik, if you are referring to the Gentoo system you started building in my
garage I think you had Reiser (not reiser4)
yuri wrote:
Anyway, as Chris pointed out it would've been useless for reiser4 anyway.
I thought that would be the case. Same thing happened to my Gentoo on
Reiser. That's why I asked Volker a while back how (easy it was) to go
about fixing 'bad superblocks' etc. His extensive answer is in th
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 21:57:59 +1300
Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> ... I've also got an mpeg of this weeks UK Top Gear if anyone wants a copy (:
>
The one with the high speed crash? Saw that on the news last night. Richard
Hammond is one helluva survivor!
yuri wrote:
> On 30/01/07, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
>> Add the packman repository, or something close to that.
>
> Looking into that now. Thanks.
>
here's a list of mirrors, presumably you are using 10.1:
ftp://packman.links2linux.org/pub/packman/MIRRORS
once you add the new installation source, yo
2 words .. "Speed Kills"
Paul
Steve Holdoway wrote:
... I've also got an mpeg of this weeks UK Top Gear if anyone wants a copy (:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:02:57 +1300
Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
I've got FC6 ( a million users can't be wrong! ) for i386, Knoppix 5.1.1, and
Sab
... I've also got an mpeg of this weeks UK Top Gear if anyone wants a copy (:
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:02:57 +1300
Steve Holdoway <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I've got FC6 ( a million users can't be wrong! ) for i386, Knoppix 5.1.1, and
> Sabayon 3.2 ( not recommended ) in the office on DVD if any
On 30/01/07, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
> Yes, the SuSE DVD had "rescue" as one of the boot options, but fsck
> couldn't fix it (at least not with me in the driver's seat). I was
> flying blind as "man fsck" was not available (no man pages in rescue
> mode? - not impressed!)
You'd be even less impre
> Yes, the SuSE DVD had "rescue" as one of the boot options, but fsck
> couldn't fix it (at least not with me in the driver's seat). I was
> flying blind as "man fsck" was not available (no man pages in rescue
> mode? - not impressed!)
You'd be even less impressed if the rescue system failed to lo
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 20:16:09 +1300
yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> I think I'm being a bit harsh on Novell/SuSE.
> The install I now have would make a great corporate desktop and I
> would have no hesitation in rolling it out in the office if I ran an
> office. I'd even pay for support.
>
> Yur
I think I'm being a bit harsh on Novell/SuSE.
The install I now have would make a great corporate desktop and I
would have no hesitation in rolling it out in the office if I ran an
office. I'd even pay for support.
Yuri
On 30/01/07, Christopher Sawtell wrote:
On Tuesday 30 January 2007, yuri wrote:
> My lovely gentoo box got hosed when someone pulled the plug while it
> was booting. Superblock or something got corrupted.
Did you try to fsck and re-build the file-system?
Yes, the SuSE DVD had "rescue" as one of
On Tuesday 30 January 2007, yuri wrote:
> My lovely gentoo box got hosed when someone pulled the plug while it
> was booting. Superblock or something got corrupted.
Did you try to fsck and re-build the file-system?
Anyway, if you want, I'd be happy to help you get another Gentoo system going.
Afte
On 30/01/07, Volker Kuhlmann wrote:
Add the packman repository, or something close to that.
Looking into that now. Thanks.
Or reinstall gentoo, if that makes you happy. Why didn't you fix that
installation?
I had nothing to fix it with - no rescue disk. All I had was that APC SuSE DVD.
I'm
According to RedHat, it's a million unique IP addresses using yum to perform
the first update from the installation image.
Note I carefully didn't answer your question (:
Steve
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 19:18:41 +1300
Michael <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> A million users? Or a million (re)installati
> Now I have no codecs to play any media files because Novell are anal
> about providing codecs.
As is every other commercial company, and for the same reason.
> Anyone know how to get codecs on to SuSE, or alternatively can provide
> an install disk for a saner distro?
Add the packman repositor
A million users? Or a million (re)installations?
Steve Holdoway wrote:
I've got FC6 ( a million users can't be wrong! ) for i386, Knoppix 5.1.1, and
Sabayon 3.2 ( not recommended ) in the office on DVD if any are of use to you.
FC5 as well, but that's unlikely to be any use (:
Steve
On Tue,
I've got FC6 ( a million users can't be wrong! ) for i386, Knoppix 5.1.1, and
Sabayon 3.2 ( not recommended ) in the office on DVD if any are of use to you.
FC5 as well, but that's unlikely to be any use (:
Steve
On Tue, 30 Jan 2007 18:55:41 +1300
yuri <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> My lovely ge
My lovely gentoo box got hosed when someone pulled the plug while it
was booting. Superblock or something got corrupted.
So I grabbed the nearest linux install disk which happened to be the
SuSE DVD that came with Oct '06 APC mag.
Now I have no codecs to play any media files because Novell are a
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