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Ubuntu

November 3, 2013

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A collection of Gentoo specific information. Installing Gentoo Gentoo: List of Issues After an Installation Gentoo: Making Sense of Portage Installing Xorg on Gentoo with the nouveau Driver Maintenance Fix a Broken Gentoo Installation Recompile […]

Firefox on Gentoo

November 2, 2013

I recently setup Firefox sync on my work machine which runs Ubuntu, then did the same on my home desktop which runs Gentoo. Before I knew it, all my work add-ons appeared on my home […]

Fix a Broken Gentoo Installation

October 12, 2013

Here is how I gain access to my broken environment… mount /dev/mapper/vg–ssd-lv–root /mnt/gentoo/ mount -v /dev/mapper/vg–ssd-lv–boot /mnt/gentoo/boot/ mount -v /dev/mapper/vg–hdd-lv–home /mnt/gentoo/home/ mount -v /dev/mapper/vg–hdd-lv–var /mnt/gentoo/var/ mount -v /dev/mapper/vg–hdd-lv–usrportage /mnt/gentoo/usr/portage/ mount -v /dev/mapper/vg–hdd-lv–vhdd /mnt/gentoo/vhdd/ mount -t […]

Gentoo: List of Issues After an Installation

October 12, 2013

Pretty much every time I install Gentoo I hit a new minor issue that requires my attention. Sometimes its caused by a new version of a particular package, sometimes I’ve simply forgot to configure something […]

Required Kernel Options

October 11, 2013

Contents1 General Kernel Options2 Required by X2.1 With the Nouveau Driver in Mind2.2 With the NVidia Driver in Mind3 Additional Kernel Options4 Resources General Kernel Options Enable GPT support. -*- Enable the block layer —> […]

Recompile the Gentoo Linux Kernel

October 11, 2013

Here I needed to add a few features to my current Kernel. The first thing I did was take a backup of both the Kernel image, the initramfs image, and the make configuration file (/usr/src/Linux/.config). […]

Gentoo: Upgrade the Linux Kernel

October 11, 2013

I have not updated my kernel for a while. As you can see, I will be updating from version 3.8.13-gentoo to version 3.10.7-gentoo-r1. storm ~ # ls -la /usr/src total 20 drwxr-xr-x 5 root root […]

Gentoo: Making Sense of Portage

September 14, 2013

Contents1 Updating the System2 General Usage Tips2.1 News from Emerge2.2 Protect the Kernel Sources from Being Removed2.3 Updating Portage2.4 What to do when Configuration Files Need Updating2.5 Updating Grub23 Issues3.1 Circular Dependencies Suck!3.2 Issue installing […]

Removing LVM2 Partitions and RAID Devices

August 20, 2013

LVM Partitions If you decide to start your installation from the beginning (or installing another OS), you will first need to remove the LVM2 partitions and the RAID devices. To do that, boot into a […]