Re: [gentoo-user] /dev/sda* missing at boot

[William Kenworthy <billk@iinet.net.au>]

On Sun, 2011-09-11 at 01:33 +0800, William Kenworthy wrote:
> On Sat, 2011-09-10 at 02:54 -0500, Dale wrote:
> > Alan McKinnon wrote:
> > > You give me too much credit :-)
> > >
> > > There's also Neil, Wonko, Volker, Stroller, Grant, meino.cramer, Mick,
> > > Paul, Harry, Albert, Alex, Walter, Alan Mackenzie (awesome name!),
> > > James, kashani, Pandu and about a 1000 more whose names I can't exactly
> > > recall right now.
> > >
> > > This here mailing-list has got the most varied and highest skills of
> > > any technical list I've ever subscribed to. We have regular desktop
> > > users, folks who work in server rooms, devs, owners of software
> > > companies, regular sysadmins, fellows who ship embedded devices, and at
> > > least one of everything in between.
> > >
> > > I don't mean to go all fuzzy feel-good here, but it's an honour to be
> > > able to communicate and interact with so many skilled people for so many
> > > years.
> > >
> > >
> > 
> > That is true.  There are lots who post a lot here.  I just recall seeing 
> > some stats somewhere and me and you were the top two.  That was about a 
> > year ago so it may have changed.  Just had to go find that link again.  
> > Here it is:
> > 
> > http://archives.gentoo.org/stats/gentoo-user-per-year.xml
> > 
> > We have a new comer.  lol
> > 
> > I think the mailing lists, and forums, are one of the key features of 
> > Gentoo.  The docs seemed to have slumped some but I think it was down to 
> > one or two people for a while.  I think someone jumped in the fire a few 
> > weeks ago tho.  Maybe they will catch up.  I'm sure it is hard to keep 
> > up with all the changes that are going on tho.  Gentoo has a LOT of 
> > stuff to document.
> > 
> > If we are so skilled, why is the Fedora dev not listening you reckon?
> > 
> > Dale
> > 
> > :-)  :-)
> > 
> 
> Ha, I got on the list in 2005!  Unfortunately it doesnt go back into the
> 90's when I started with Gentoo and the learning curve was REALLY
> steep :)
> 
> BillK
> 
 Actually, thats a bit optimistic - 2002

moriah ~ # ls -alth /var/backups/rattus/20110710/tree/etc/

....

drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root       104 Sep  6  2003 hsf
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        80 May 13  2003 sysconfig
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        72 Jan  7  2003 devfs.d
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        48 Nov  5  2002 svga
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root        80 Jul 10  2002 sasl
-rw-------   1 root     root       12K Jul  7  2002 .procmailrc.swp
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root       120 Jul  4  2002 oaf
drwxr-xr-x   3 root     root        72 Jul  3  2002 sound
-rw-------   1 root     root         0 Jul  3  2002 .pwd.lock
drwxr-xr-x   2 root     root       112 Jul  3  2002 ssmtp

Decommissioned a couple of weeks ago!

BillK