From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: from lists.gentoo.org (pigeon.gentoo.org [208.92.234.80]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by finch.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id BA705138359 for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2020 13:51:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id B6FEEE0992; Fri, 2 Oct 2020 13:51:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from covici.com (debian-2.covici.com [166.84.7.93]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES128-GCM-SHA256 (128/128 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 6E9EBE095F for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2020 13:51:26 +0000 (UTC) Received: from ccs.covici.com (ccs.covici.com [70.109.53.110]) (authenticated bits=0) by covici.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Debian-14~deb10u1) with ESMTPSA id 092DpXmG000487 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2020 09:51:35 -0400 Received: from ccs.covici.com (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by ccs.covici.com (8.15.2/8.15.2) with ESMTPS id 092DpM0A936457 (version=TLSv1.3 cipher=TLS_AES_256_GCM_SHA384 bits=256 verify=NOT) for ; Fri, 2 Oct 2020 09:51:22 -0400 Received: (from covici@localhost) by ccs.covici.com (8.15.2/8.15.2/Submit) id 092DpMa5936456; Fri, 2 Oct 2020 09:51:22 -0400 Date: Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:51:22 -0400 Message-ID: From: John Covici To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: Re: [gentoo-user] Re: installation problems In-Reply-To: References: <4584509.GXAFRqVoOG@peak> User-Agent: Wanderlust/2.15.9 (Almost Unreal) SEMI-EPG/1.14.7 (Harue) FLIM/1.14.9 (=?ISO-8859-4?Q?Goj=F2?=) APEL/10.8 EasyPG/1.0.0 Emacs/26 (x86_64-pc-linux-gnu) MULE/6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Organization: Covici Computer Systems Precedence: bulk List-Post: List-Help: List-Unsubscribe: List-Subscribe: List-Id: Gentoo Linux mail X-BeenThere: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Reply-to: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org X-Auto-Response-Suppress: DR, RN, NRN, OOF, AutoReply MIME-Version: 1.0 (generated by SEMI-EPG 1.14.7 - "Harue") Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII X-Archives-Salt: 245365a8-1dd8-4ec7-a0c8-fcdcd51f39c7 X-Archives-Hash: d06cdaa16d83309a042cd68caa45ec2b On Fri, 02 Oct 2020 09:38:54 -0400, Rich Freeman wrote: > > On Fri, Oct 2, 2020 at 9:32 AM John Covici wrote: > > > > Is there anything more recent I c an use as a rescue disk? I have > > version 5.1 but after that, not sure what they did, but could not even > > get a decent root prompt and I do need zfs, otherwise there are many > > options. > > > > Don't want to beat a dead horse, but zfs is also one of the reasons I > use the ubuntu cds. It is easy to get zfs running on an ubuntu > livecd. I forget if it is preinstalled, but I'm pretty sure it is all > packaged so it is basically a 1-2 liner to add it. I haven't looked > at it recently but the Funtoo docs suggest doing the same which is > where I got the tip. > > At the time systemrescuecd didn't support zfs out of copyright > concerns. Perhaps that has changed. People have strong feelings on > zfs. I get them, though it is 100% FOSS (even if the licensing was > engineered to cause GPL issues). IMO the biggest technical issue with > using it on linux is that it basically pulls in a bunch of other BSD > logic around stuff like caching so it isn't super-clean from a kernel > perspective. However, that is also part of why it is so stable - they > basically containerized the thing so that they didn't have a bazillion > regressions, and I think they've been slowly working on getting rid of > the middle layers. > OK, one problem is going to be, I need a command l ine, not a gui and I need speakup, so I will have to check and see if the Ubunto latest has that in the kernel. -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici wb2una covici@ccs.covici.com