I haven't updated in a while because my home computer has been out of commission for a while... Not sure what happened... For some reason, both Gentoo, and Fedora have corrupted ext3 partions on my computer... Not sure if its because of the via_sata driver, hardware, or a combination of them. Any how, this last time, it corrupted my home partion and I had fsck running but it was taking *days* to run. I even stoped it and restarted it from a knoppix CD, and the fedora disk 1. They all took forever, and still didn't seem like it fixed anything when they were done. So, I lost everything.... I hadn't bought the Dual DVD/CD burner yet, so I didn't have any backups... which is completely my fault. Anyhow, this time around I'm going with a different filesystem for my home partion. XFS is what I desided to go with. I did some research a while ago and looked into its benifits and it seems to have quite a few. Dispite not being officially supported by Fedora, I think it will be able to handle my 107GB partion better than ext3. ReiserFS would have been my other choice, but found on the fedorafaq site that SELinux won't work on anything but ext3 and XFS. That sealed the deal, XFS it is. I'm currently loading it up right now, so far so good.
Well, my wife could really use Windows for school... (some of the DVD's and CD's she has for studing only work on windows or mac...) so, I thought I could run VMWare which would also allow me to play some games online with guys from work. I attempted the install in Gentoo, and the installer asks for the /etc/rcX.d directories, and since gentoo doesn't have them, i thought I could get away with creating some sym links to the directories they do have.... well, that ended up completly messing up my / partion.... So, instead of reloading Gentoo again and taking a couple days and then somehow maybe getting vmware to work. I desided to load Fedora Core 3. Since it was just released a week or so ago. I've been running it at work since the day it came out, and have really liked it. So I installed it and to my suprise I was able to load it in under 10 minutes. The SATA drives performance supprised me :) Anyway, loading VMWare from Core 3 so far has been cake. Just need to load an OS.
October 28, 2004 Posted by mitch |
gentoo, linux |
I finally got it back up and running last night... man... almost a whole week without it... (I started the rebuild sunday night) and maybe its just me... but it seems to be a bit snappier than it was before... Not sure if its because this time I went from a stage 2 install instead of the stage 3 I did before. Or it might be the fact I've only got one module loaded and everything else is compiled into the kernel with no intrd image.... Anyhow, I'm liking it. I got most of the applications I need installed, still working on the multimedia apps but those should only take me another couple hours to make sure they're working correctly.
October 27, 2004 Posted by mitch |
gentoo |
It's been about a year since I originally built my gentoo box at home. I've been getting a bunch of dependancy problems with the beta/testing ebuilds of epiphany which have been keeping me from being able to update the system. So instead of trying to figure out what it was doing and why, I opted to reload my / partition because I had just about filled it up anyway (had about 8GB of software in it... and I've NEVER had that much before...) so for the last couple days I've been building it. I would have been done in 1 and a half days however I ran into problems with my SATA controler again. Seems I removed something from the kernel config I shouldn't have... I played with it for a day... then finally gave in and admited it was probably something I removed that was making it not work right. So, I removed my .config file and started from scratch, this time only enabling what I knew I needed and removing the floppy block device because I don't have one. Recompiled and after playing with my root= options from grub, I was able to boot just fine. So last night I emerged gnome and supporting libs, and this morning I emerged evolution2. I should be ready to go when I get home now finally. I will just have to configure X again. (which is really easy) So I should be up and running in a couple of minutes when I get home. Then I'll go back and lean up my kernel :)
I'm still trying to get mythtv setup on a friends box (an ITX Via C3-2 proc). I haven't been spending a whole lot of time on it mind you, however, the problems I'm experiencing are more because of the hardware. (the C3-2) Its a little bit different in a couple of areas and I'm trying to make it as lean and fast as possible because speed is my main priority. With that, I've been using an -Os as one of my compile options, and I'm not sure if its because the proc is only a 1Ghz, or if compiling for size just takes that much longer. When I setup my main box i'm currently using (Athlon 2800+) I believe i had it up in about 3 days start to finish. Its probably because that computer is sitting on the floor and its unconfortable to sit down with it... I do have everything installed now I just need to do the configuring, so I'm hoping that won't take long. :)
