From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org ([208.92.234.80] helo=lists.gentoo.org) by finch.gentoo.org with esmtp (Exim 4.60) (envelope-from ) id 1QcpzI-0003tY-Rq for garchives@archives.gentoo.org; Sat, 02 Jul 2011 02:31:17 +0000 Received: from pigeon.gentoo.org (localhost [127.0.0.1]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with SMTP id 574EB1C001; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 02:29:32 +0000 (UTC) Received: from mail-pv0-f181.google.com (mail-pv0-f181.google.com [74.125.83.181]) by pigeon.gentoo.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0D59F1C001 for ; Sat, 2 Jul 2011 02:29:31 +0000 (UTC) Received: by pvg13 with SMTP id 13so4598859pvg.40 for ; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:29:31 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=gamma; h=sender:from:reply-to:to:subject:date:message-id:x-mailer :mime-version:content-language:content-type :content-transfer-encoding; bh=D7fGDoqkVnAlb6I47G3hg0V5kFfKFV5jCCqvEvvhBEs=; b=s6Yg6KgJIC+UxpDBBkYzvu5WgV5j2IlciuWSxo8Ow9pSJrn+QBmbKR/RCok8+MC/mx S6WYMo3FG5Rf5aSKNHJbGJWzAal8sITkSqoiongNbFJFt3/o0LcvNL722VE34uW3P6mf j76iH3TPqMOMzA5PXzgzArttsl3eiH9QxtWOo= Received: by 10.68.6.7 with SMTP id w7mr4072804pbw.189.1309573771248; Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:29:31 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [10.162.5.68] ([223.255.226.134]) by mx.google.com with ESMTPS id z7sm2321125pbk.67.2011.07.01.19.29.27 (version=SSLv3 cipher=OTHER); Fri, 01 Jul 2011 19:29:29 -0700 (PDT) Sender: Pandu Poluan From: Pandu Poluan To: gentoo-user@lists.gentoo.org Subject: [gentoo-user] RE: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm appliance Date: Sat, 2 Jul 2011 09:28:52 +0700 Message-ID: X-Mailer: EPOC Email Version 2.10 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 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Language: i-default Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable X-Archives-Salt: X-Archives-Hash: fb0863e96c1f0dcbd0b1a500bd6c3e9e -original message- Subject: [gentoo-user] Re: [OT virtual stuff] gentoo vm = appliance From: Harry Putnam Date: 2011-07-02 07:22 >Albert Hopkins writes: > >> Well, thanks for pointing out the error in my appliance creation = script >> that mistakenly sets up the serial console on non-headless VMs. = I've >> fixed the bug and created and uploaded a new image. > >My tiny input isn't much... the big thanks goes to you and to James >for the walkthru to use Vbox on your appliances. > >At the risk of exposing further ignorance on my part, I'm curious = what >it means in fstab where you have: > > /.swap none swap sw 0 0 > >At the swap line. That means the system is using a swapfile -- whose name is '.swap' and = located in the root directory '/' -- rather than a swap = partition. >That's another thing I haven't seen before.I mean the /DOTswap >`/.swap', does it just mean there is no swap? Nope. You can call the file 'my_awesome_file_for_swapping' and put it in = /var/cache, resulting in '/var/cache/my_awesome_file_for_swapping' instead = of '/.swap'. The dot, as usual, is to un-clutter the output of 'ls /' (unless you use = the -a switch, of course) Note: If you want to use your own file, don't forget to 'mkswap = /path/to/file' *before* replacing the entry in fstab >I've noticed similar behavior on google if you try something >like "--color=3Dauto" as a search term.. google appears to throw >out the `--' (dashdash) and the `=3D' equal sign.=20 Somewhere in the jungle of documents in Google's help system, Google = explained that they index *only* based on letters, and strip out symbols. = Except for symbols that became part of a trademark, e.g., = 'C#'. Rgds, -- FdS Pandu E Poluan ~ IT Optimizer ~ Sent from Nokia E72-1