OK, Answered my own question with some more serious research.

Ooooh is this what I need:

(20+4) pins Main Power x1, 12V(P4) x1, Peripheral Power x 8, Floppy x 2, Serial ATA x 2, PCI-E (6 Pins) x1, server use 8 pins CPU connectors (12V) x 1

The last time I built a machine, I was only aware of 20 pin motherboards. I just ordered an ASUS ATX Mobo, plugged the 20 pin connector where it belonged, and moved on with my life. Now, I'm working on putting together a server at my work, and am mildly confused by what's happened.

Almost all of ...

You could always unmask a few packages, or go for some cvs stuff like xgl or enlightenment. (:

I'm cool with fluxbox ;) Thanks though. What I'm pointing to more is the increased overal stability of the non ~ trees. Before, even if all you used were straight up x86 packages, something somewhere ...

Lately, I've grown nostalgic for updates that involved actual work. emerge -uD world would give me a list of 10-12 minor packages that installed themselves fairly quickly and required almost not intervention from me in dispatch-conf.

Today must be my lucky day! glibc, AND a new kernel?!! Oh my! :D ...

yabbadabbadont wrote:You just need to study up on SAMBA and CUPS. Those two together should cover what you need.

Thanks Major how-to reading session impending.

Summary of most pressing issue: is it possible for WinXP to write to an ext3 partition over the network?

Here's my setup:

Laptop: Gentoo dualbooted with windows. The Gentoo part is used mostly for coding - has Apache and MySQL set up on it so that I can just hit save, tab to a browser and hit ...

11. Do NOT do the following:
# emerge -C python

Haha are you adding from yourself, or did you see my thread when I did that? Man that was a trip. I think I ended up copying the python folder from another install (luckily I had one on the same PC) and that got python working long enough for me to ...

Gentoo has been the only distribution I've used seriously and actually bothered to learn stuff with, so basically my linux esperienced so far can be summed up by my gentoo experience. Here's what I've learned:

1. These forums = best thing since that time Jesus split one loaf of bread to feed a ...

My /usr/sbin/groupadd appears to be corrupted - whenever I try to run it, it says "cannot execute binary file"

I'd like to just try remerging whatever it's part of and see if it fixes itself. Permissions on it are fine, i checked.

Well, emerge --sync revealed nothing but a perl update, but fixed the issue. I'm now booted into my gentoo install, thank god, without having to reinstall.

So since nobody wants to help, trial and error it is.

I've looked at some threads with problems SIMILAR to mine, but none of them are the same. Most involve etc-update which I did not run. I use dispatch-conf anyway.

So I chrooted into the environment, and when I typed passwd, here's what i got ...

Perhaps I should clarify so that people don't just think I'm not reading the faq...

I can't login at all, not as root not as anything. When it prompts me for a user name, as soon as I enter the username, it says "Login Incorrect" and resets to the username prompt without even asking for a password.

I did a fresh install on my laptop yesterday and ran an emerge -uD world today. Now, when I try to su or even login after booting (silly me, thought rebooting would help) after I put in my username and hit enter, it just says 'Login incorrect' before it even asks for a password... I have a Ubuntu ...

I was getting an error compiling scroll keeper, both 3.14 and 3.14-r1. I looked at the error output, it was a little confusing, but I figured out that re-emerging XML-Parser solves the problem.

Nice, thanks to the both of you. I'll give it a try this weekend.

DHCP doesn't work, I've tried. I'll try setting the IP manually later today...

voyager ~ # iwconfig eth1
Warning: Driver for device eth1 has been compiled with version 18
of Wireless Extension, while this program supports up to version 17.
Some things may be broken...

eth1 IEEE 802.11g ESSID:"ilnyarienafaire"
Mode:Managed Frequency:2.437 GHz Access Point: 00:13:10:1A:B7:7B ...

I drag my laptop up my university's campus a lot (where I don't live) and they do their room internet service subscriptions by MAC adress. I know I can clone a MAC with a router, but I don't want to drag one with me every time. Is there a gentoo util that can do that, like mask my NIC's MAC to be ...

I've just got this setup running on my External USB 2 harddrive. Theres a couple of issues I encountered but nothing drastic and other then those it's a straight Gentoo install.

1. Some USB drive take a while to come up. You can't rely on the kernel having access to them when it attempts to mount ...

Wow I did say 300 MB... that puts a few things said in this thread in quite a different light It's 300 GB, and running off an iPod sounds pretty effin cool.

Should I make a how-to/wiki page on how to do this? Is there a decent how-to already?

now i know that you probably want gentoo to be compeletely on the usb drive but couldnt you have also just set up both computers with the same/similar settings and then mounted your usb drive to /home/<user>

I don't want to have to update two computers, maintain two computers, etc. I actually ...

NeddySeagoon wrote:DrWoland,

300MB for 89$ ?

EIDE: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... no=1487962
SATA: http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications ... no=1487964
You're welcome

They have both the ATA133 and SATA versions for the same price.

I've just got this setup running on my External USB 2 harddrive. Theres a couple of issues I encountered but nothing drastic and other then those it's a straight Gentoo install.

1. Some USB drive take a while to come up. You can't rely on the kernel having access to them when it attempts to mount ...