TIP: Click on subject to list as thread! ANSI
echo: linux
to: MAURICE KINAL
from: GERT ANDERSEN
date: 2015-01-03 17:09:00
subject: 2 problems on my Gentoo L

Hello Maurice!

Sat Jan 03 2015, Maurice Kinal wrote to Benny Pedersen:

 MK>-={ vendredi, janvier 02 2015, 20:18:39 -0800 }=-

 MK>Hey Benny!

 BP>> let Gert play his dos games, lol

 MK>I am not stopping him.  I am betting his hardware will be the killer.

 BP>> if pyhon is missing in gentoo, then its really reinstall time, not
 BP>> fixing time

 MK>Yeah that seemed odd to me since much of what I've read about gentoo 
 MK>apps they rely on python being onboard.

 BP>> 1: download sysresquecd, burn it to cdrw media

 MK>What burner?  I haven't seen one of those in ages now.

I using windows system here to do the cdrom co dvd burning and I have Nero 10
and 11 burning on both my windows 7 work pc and my laptop, so it getting done
here.

 BP>> 2: boot the cdrw, make sure its 64bit kernel selected

 MK>Again, boot it with what?

With linux to the pc. If it can get the router pc on the network and work for
it and I will think to linux on harddisk.

 BP>> 3: if that boots, then you now have a working .config to compile
 BP>> your own kernel from !

 MK>See queries about 1 and 2.  ;-)

 BP>> 4: read online handbook for howto setup gentoo, dont use old files
 BP>> from old harddisks

 MK>This should have been 1, especially anything regarding other bootable 
 MK>media given the lack of CD and/or DVD ROMs.

 BP>> 5: read the howto very carefull, dont random read any point or
 BP>> step from howto

 MK>This should be combined with 1 methinks.

 BP>> if its not working, read handbook one more time

 MK>I still wouldn't have gotten by 1.

 BP>> giving up ?

 MK>I never started.  ;-)

 MK>Life is good,
 MK>Maurice

 MK>... Don't cry for me I have vi.
 MK>-+- GNU bash, version 4.3.30(1)-release (x86_64-atom-linux-gnu)
 MK> + Origin: Pointy Stick Society - Ladysmith BC, Canada (1:153/7001.0)


  Take care,
            Gert

      - Get the best with linux - 

--- Msged/LNX 6.2.0 (Linux/2.6.39-gentoo-r1 (x86_64))
* Origin: The KofoBBS at http://www.kofobbs.dk (2:230/150)

SOURCE: echomail via QWK@docsplace.org

Email questions or comments to sysop@ipingthereforeiam.com
All parts of this website painstakingly hand-crafted in the U.S.A.!
IPTIA BBS/MUD/Terminal/Game Server List, © 2025 IPTIA Consulting™.