From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from lists.gentoo.org ([140.105.134.102] helo=robin.gentoo.org) by nuthatch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.62) (envelope-from ) id 1GwJgf-00034B-JK for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:41:54 +0000 Received: from robin.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with SMTP id kBIEdxIa022588; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:39:59 GMT Received: from wx-out-0506.google.com (wx-out-0506.google.com [66.249.82.233]) by robin.gentoo.org (8.13.8/8.13.8) with ESMTP id kBIEdvZV004379 for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 14:39:59 GMT Received: by wx-out-0506.google.com with SMTP id i30so2092948wxd for ; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:39:57 -0800 (PST) DomainKey-Signature: a=rsa-sha1; q=dns; c=nofws; s=beta; d=gmail.com; h=received:message-id:date:from:to:subject:in-reply-to:mime-version:content-type:content-transfer-encoding:content-disposition:references; b=oWTJkY8iXZ9QyPkK3Ad+2AGp+piGOFX0ZyMyqXoyOawpDWRmZKmtnnsmQUyDbo2TCUnd2GOuOAk7LEZYG7pMYp5RjW63lyt09oxS7gnSqhaTNcwIa6S/Ot7IrFBOQsK4gdsbh+LqWCQQYedk7+6er1JOFuZFmNJ+Nt/+RkFpBuA= Received: by 10.70.29.7 with SMTP id c7mr7571510wxc.1166452797015; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:39:57 -0800 (PST) Received: by 10.70.43.17 with HTTP; Mon, 18 Dec 2006 06:39:56 -0800 (PST) Message-ID: Date: Mon, 18 Dec 2006 20:09:56 +0530 From: arnuld To: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-amd64] Re: stopping IPv6 In-Reply-To: Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-amd64@lists.gentoo.org MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Content-Disposition: inline References: <200612171330.10628.peper@gentoo.org> <200612171424.14018.peper@gentoo.org> <458586A8.1000908@nagafix.co.uk> X-Archives-Salt: 8ee2e325-2b8f-4839-9b9e-b819a0b625a4 X-Archives-Hash: b1abaf2bb85ab6e54f40950ad186f331 > 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/ -- gentoo-amd64@gentoo.org mailing list