sorry for my late answer ....

yes...uses the LiveOS directory ,and the squashfs.img is a squashed ext3 image. Do you try it ?

i emerge dracut with DRACUT_MODULES="plymouth dmsquash-live dm lvm" and USE flags="device-mapper "
and inside the chrooted system i run
#dracut -m "base lvm kernel-modules" -a "dmsquash-live" --filesystems "squashfs" -f
This is ganerate the initramfs in /boot

We must have a kernel with lvm ...

hello everyone ,

i tested a lot with dracut and finally, i got dracut to boot with the gentoo based squashfs image.
I will get all the infos and i will post where my example for everyone who interesting.

i am booting with a squashfs image with the genkernel ,but i want to try dracut to take advantage the plymooth plugin.
I had try SystemRescueCD before ,and i think that use the genkernel scripts to mount the squashfs image.

fakeCreazy wrote:Did you tried add your printer manually?

yes manually i can add the printer , but i am wandering about the automatic way .....

Hello community of gentoo ,

I am facing a problem with hp-printers . When i plug the usb ,the system recognize, configure and add the printer to the system and then automatically delete it.
If i plug a non hp printer ,eg a sumsung ,every works fine.
In older times system-config-printer works with ...

Hello community of gentoo !!!!!
, i am trying to generate initramfs with genkernel and unionfs support ,but i have compiling failures during the compilation of fuse...


fuse: >> Configuring...
configure: WARNING: unrecognized options: --disable-kernel-module
--
config.status: creating example ...

Hello everyone ,
I want to use plymooth so i want to boot my squashfs image with the dracut generated image,i tried some kerne boot l args but with no success .
The dracut ebuild has the module dmsquash-live but i cant find any documentation .

Can anyone help ?

SOlVED

i had forgot to greate the empty file livecd ! everything works now !

I think the broblem is at the genkernel linuxrc script ,when i get the shell from the failure of live.squashfs ,i mount manualy the /dev/sda1 to /newroot/mnt/cdrom and then the livecd.squashfs to /newroot/mnt/livecd ,exit from the shell and then boots fine.

Hi all

I follow this wiki http://en.gentoo-wiki.com/wiki/Build_Your_Own_LiveCD_or_LiveDVD to create a live-usb
i used genkernal as well but i cant mount to squashfs image

my grub settings are
title gentoo
root (hd0,0)
kernel /boot/kernel-genkernel-x86-2.6.29-gentoo-r6 root=/dev/ram0 real_root ...

reavertm wrote:Unfortunately your error logs tells absolutely nothing as you enabled parallel compilation (-j2 or more), paste here the line that actually contains error message not compilation summary. Besides - what CPU do you have that does not have SSE?

What do you mean ?
I have an intel quad-core Q6600

can someone confirm that kdelibs doesn't build without ssl flag before reporting a bug?

me too, kdelibs fails to build without ssl flag under gentoo 64bit
/var/tmp/portage/kde-base/kdelibs-4.1.2-r1/work/kdelibs-4.1.2/kio/kssl/ksslpkcs12.cpp:244: προειδοποίηση: unused parameter ‘p’
make[1 ...

i cant compile plasma-workspace under gentoo-64bit , also with the kde4.1.2 & kde4.2
i got an error Linking CXX shared module ../../../lib/krunner_webshortcuts.so
[ 64%] Built target krunner_shell
Linking CXX shared module ../../../lib/krunner_xesam.so
[ 64%] Built target krunner_webshortcuts
[ 64 ...

i cant compile plasma-workspace under gentoo-64bit , also with the kde4.1.2 & kde4.2
i got an error Linking CXX shared module ../../../lib/krunner_webshortcuts.so
[ 64%] Built target krunner_shell
Linking CXX shared module ../../../lib/krunner_xesam.so
[ 64%] Built target krunner_webshortcuts
[ 64 ...

Recently i i got the newer version of VMware-workstation-6.0.0-45731 into my gentoo system.I successfully
installed the VMware workstation but i have a little problem.Every time i go to start vmware i get this :

"vmware is installed, but it has not been (correctly) configured
for this system. To ...

I run a Battlefield 2 dedicated server, following the instructions of this wiki http://gentoo-wiki.com/HOWTO_Setup_A_Battlefield_2_Dedicated_Server
Everything is going ok with the server,no errors. But the game at my desktop pc does not find it?.can someone help me to find out what happening ??
The ...

i have the same problem, i also tried battlefield 2148 and battlefield 2,but nothing.
have you solve the problem????

My firefox crash when loads a site

sakis@localhost ~ $ firefox
No running windows found
/etc/host.conf: line 24: bad command `mdns off'

(Gecko:6425): Pango-WARNING **: shape engine failure, expect ugly output. the offending font is 'Times New Roman 12'
/usr/libexec/mozilla-launcher: line 117: 6425 ...

ok to elisa
ebala sto USE sto /etc/make.conf -pam
ekana revdep-rebuid & emerge shadow

Mporei kapois na bohthisei,opote kanw login blepw to eksis :

sakis@localhost ~ $ su
Password:
configuration error - unknown item 'FAILLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'LASTLOG_ENAB' (notify administrator)
configuration error - unknown item 'MOTD_FILE' (notify ...

This worked for me... i have blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03,sun-jdk-1.4.2.12 & sun-jdk-1.5.0.08


VMHANDLE="blackdown-jdk-1.4.2" java-config-1 -L -S blackdown-jdk-1.4.2.03

Pantos apo meria mou sou lew na ksekiniseis me Gentoo .Prosopika prospathisa na ksekinisw me alles dianomes Suse mandake k.a ,alla den mporousa na mpw sto noima kai na katalabw pws domitai ena litourgiko linux, toulaxiston me ta gentoo ematha arketa kai mporw na pw oti eimai se stadio na katargisw ...

Geia sas filoi tou forum.

Prospathw na kanw egatastasi to xgl alla kapia problimata me stamatoun.
Akolouthisa apo to wiki tis odigies HOW TO MODULAR XORG kai katopin HOW TO XGL kai kolaw sto emerge cairo,,distixws den me afinei o proxy na kanw xrisi tou svn kai den mporw na katebasw ta arxeia apo ...