Just a guess but did you enable loadable module support in your kernel?

Why would he need to modify his windows drive? If he uses grub he should be ok.

Are you just trying to resize your ntfs drive to make room for /boot? You should just put /boot on hdb. No need to put it on hda.

I think in the gentoo docs it recommends 32M for the size of /boot with ext2

Boot the livecd and get your network working properly. Create a temp partition on your new hard drive to store ntfsprogs. Then mount your hard drive. then go download ntfsprogs to the hd you just mounted and you should be in business.

Resize your drive, might need a reboot after that and install ...

You could do that with knoppix (if it does have ntfsprogs on it) . You could even install gentoo from a shell within knoppix if you wanted.

You could also probably boot your gentoo livecd and once you have the networking part setup, go and download ntfsprogs.

When I used to dual boot I prefered ...

I dont have any experience listening to .ram file through mplayer, but you could always install realone or realplayer. They are both in portage.

I know though... mplayer rocks and real player sucks.

You should look into using samba. I dont think you would want to use wine for that.

There is a program called ntfsresize that would probably do the job for you.

http://linux-ntfs.sourceforge.net/info/index.html

you could also get it from portage.

Just a FYI, I have this same promise card and everything did work out of the box with the experimental 2.6 livecd.

Maybe im retarded but I could not get the SATA drive to boot when using grub. I switched over to LILO and it worked like a charm the first time around. So if you happen to have ...

you can turn off the beeping by doing:

As far as I can tell it looks like you set up everything correctly. Perhaps you dont have your 2nd hard drive configured properly in your bios?

Im not sure how big openoffice is compiled but I have couple of thought here:

1. You could emerge just the openoffice binary so you dont have the source and temp files too.

If you want to compile from source then

2. Use the -Os option in your cflags. This will reduce the size of the compiled ...

I'm upgrading to POPfile 0.20 also and ran into the same problem. Currently there is a request at bugs.gentoo.com for someone to make a ebuild for the BerkeleyDB perl module. That is independent of the db package that you probably have installed.

If you can't wait for an ebuild and don't mind ...

Are your running make menuconfig from /usr/src/linux? You probably have it symlinked to your new kernel (2.4.23) Even if you boot into your old kernel, the symlink wont change. If you wanted to recompile your old kernel go to /usr/src/ linux-2.4.22_Pre2-gss dir and then run make menuconfig. Or ...

you can look in your .config file in your /usr/src/linux directory

do a: if it says:
CONFIG_PREEMPT=y

then your good. If its not enabled you can do it in menuconfig/xconfig. Go to Processor types and features and enable Preemptive kernel

try:

It looks like your mounting your /boot partition instead of your root partition in lilo.conf.

try changing
root=/dev/hda3 to root=/dev/hda5

You can boot your livecd.

Once you have a prompt, mount your / and /boot partitions.

If hda1 is your /boot and hda2 is / then you could do


mount /dev/hda2 /mnt/gentoo
mkdir /mnt/gentoo/boot
mount /dev/hda1 /mnt/gentoo/boot
chroot /mnt/gentoo /bin/bash


now you will be inside your install ...

Did you by chance just install some extensions? Ive had this happen to me before after installing them.

I ended up deleting the /usr/lib/MozillaFirebird/chrome (if you unmerge firebird this directory does not get deleted) and reinstalling firebird and everything worked fine.

If you had sshd running on that box, you could sometimes be able to ssh in from another box and kill that process.

Or you could always try to see if you can switch to another console (ctl-alt-f2) and if your able to kill the process that way.

Sometimes you dont have a choice and you just have to ...

Are your windows partitions NTFS?
If they are regular Fat32 partitions you can access them through Linux, once you make a mount point and an fstab entry for them.
Let me know if there's anything I can do, like post files etc...
One thought:
I have rescued my Windows partitions and Gentoo partitions ...

Hi,

I finally got gentoo installed (thanks to a ton of reinstalls and help here :)) however I lost my windows!

here is how the comp is set up

hda1 win98 (orig install)
hda2 os/2 boot loader (from RH 7.1 install years ago) <--only pointed at windows for the last year or so)

hdb1 gentoo boot
hdb2 ...

Well there must be a limit set on how much video ram the scrollback is allowed to use. Obviously it not going to use all of your video memory just for scrollback. I have 128mb of ram on my video card and I dont see a difference between that and my 16mb vid card on my other computer.

Here is an ...

I think the amount of scrollback is limited to the amount of video memory you have, so you cant increase the amount.

Thanks for the guide. Before I attempt to tackle this I just had a quick question.

In section 3.2 You said

root@server # vi /etc/postfix/saslpass

smtp.isp.com beo739:rsmtp-pass


My ISP's smtp server does not use authentication or ssl. Since I have no username or pass would i want to do ...