Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: stopping IPv6

[arnuld <arnuld3@gmail.com>]

> Well, I've learned to be rather careful using words like "only" and
> "all" without some sort of escape clause, since it takes only a single
> exception to disprove the case.  However, running out of room is the case
> must of us are familiar with that would trigger that error (as should be
> obvious given you had essentially three people suggest the same cause),
> and the usual reason for that is that one is extracting to a location that
> didn't have the free space one expected -- because it's not the location
> one had in mind.

abyway, i am suing BLAg to read this email. also downloading "Linux
>From Scratch LiveCD". tomorrow morning i will try Gentoo.

> Another possibility in the same vein... Are you sure you created your
> partitions correctly?  IOW, you didn't make it say 40960 KB (40 MB) instead
> of 40960000-odd KB (40 GB), right?  Again, the output from df should
> make such a mistake immediately clear, if you did.

partitons were correct. damn-sure :-)

> Yet another variant on the theme would be if you messed up fstab,
> assigning / to the small partition you intended for /boot, or something
> like that.

i havn't even touched fstab.


> It was in an interview I read on one of the computer mag sites.  I used to
> include the link as well, but decided that was a bit heavy for a sig, so
> don't now.  However, a bit of quick googling points to this from late 2004:
>
> http://www.linuxdevcenter.com/pub/a/linux/2004/12/22/rms_interview.html

hey thanks BUDDY ;-)

> It's well worth reading, both on the freedom theme and because much of the
> material discussed, the freeing of Solaris and Java, is just as topical
> now if not more so than it was then, what with Java being GPLv2ed, and
> some hints coming out of Sun that it /might/ actually consider relicensing
> Solaris under the GPLv3 if it likes the look of the final license.  What
> with Linux staying hard GPLv2 and the opposition of the Linux kernel
> hackers to GPLv3, if Solaris /does/ go GPLv3 along with most of the
> GNU software family, and with Tivoizing and the possible fallout from the
> MS/Novell deal, things could quickly get /very/ (as in /extremely/)
> interesting in the world of freedom software.
>
> (I had to delete several paragraphs and force myself to be content with
> only the above, or this could easily become a multi-hundred line post on
> that alone. =8^)

If you have saved the "deleted" lines, send them to me. i want to read
them & If you have some time , create a BLOG of that "multi-hundred
line post  BUT 1st email them to me, i will feel happy to have a draft
version 8-)



-- arnuld
http://arnuld.blogspot.com/
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