On Thursday 08 March 2007 16:18, Timothy A. Holmes wrote: > I use Fluxbox as my GUI > > wishes / wants -- i would really love the flash cards from my camera to > automout and be read/write automatically You would probably want hald, dbus which are now installed by default when you emerge KDE applications. You may also want to install ivman for automounting. Personally, I have stayed away from ivman and added something like this to my ~/.fluxbox/menu to choose when I mount/unmount my flashcards: ======================================== [submenu] (CF / camera) [exec] (mount CF) {pmount /dev/sda1 && konqueror /media/sda1} [exec] (unmount CF) {sync && pumount /dev/sda1} ======================================== The assumption being that your camera/flashcard reader is detected as /dev/sda1, not /dev/sda. Adjust or duplicate as required. Alternatively, you need to launch Konqueror every time before you navigate to Storage Media and click to mount your camera device therein. > Id also like the external usb / firewire drives and flash (thumb) dries to > do the same thing As my comments above. > the hdd is 80gb and i will be partitioning it thusly: > > 32mb - boot > 1gb - swap > remainder / Unless you are keen to keep your boot time in the nanoseconds, I suggest that you add a few more partitions and have swap (/dev/hda1), / (/dev/hda2), /home (/dev/hda3) on primary partitions. The remaining goes into an extended partition (/dev/hda4), and /usr/portage (/dev/hda5) and /boot (/dev/hda6) on logical partitions thereafter. My rational is as follows: When you use swap you want it to be as fast as it gets. Root and /home come next. You keep /home on a separate partition for ease of back ups and to simplify a reinstall in the future, or a transfer to another machine altogether. /usr/portage goes on a separate partition to minimise fs fragmentation. /boot goes last because you only access it once every time you boot and it is small enough to quickly move/back up/restore to another partition if you decide to add some more partitions to your scheme. DISCLAIMER Before anyone starts shooting me down, this is just my preferred way of partitioning a laptop. No doubt there are umpteen partitioning schemes out there, some simpler, some more complex, some of which involve LVM, EVM; etc. Not all of them maximise access/read/write times for the most often used directories/files and minimise fs fragmentation. > it has 1gb memory onboard I wish mine did too. ;-) > i have 2 hard drives for the machine, so i will keep the current gentoo > install, and swap the other one in to build on, but that keeps it from > being a rush job and hopefully i can get it right the first time. I will > be taking this machine with me for 3 weeks storm chasing this summer and i > need to be able to depend on it to always JUST WORK without hassles etc. > > I am looking for recomendations / suggestions / pitfalls etc to assembling > this machine -- i will be following the manual for the build, but if anyone > has done this type of builds in the past and has suggestions etc id > appreciate recomendations, or links to appropriate howtos etc. Many of the > things i want to add / build have howtos associated with them, and i will > be using them. If you like your current desktop and applications configuration you can copy over most config files from /etc and /home onto your new drive and then emerge packages as you need them. -- Regards, Mick