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 […]
General Kernel Options Enable GPT support. -*- Enable the block layer —> Partition Types —> [*] EFI GUID Partition support [*] Windows Logical Disk Manager (Dynamic Disk) support I also select dynamic disks just in […]
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). […]
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 […]
Updating the System After I have installed Gentoo, I like to fully update the system – if nothing else, just to check everything works as expected. To do this I follow the official documentation for […]
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 […]
Here I need to amend the global USE flag to allow for Native Language Support (nls). nano /etc/portage/make.conf Now just add nls to the end of the USE flag variable. For example, USE=”…. nls”. Then […]
Assuming you’ve already created yourself a Rackspace cloud account and that you’ve just logged in, you will see a list of cloud servers (if you have any yet). These are your current servers. If a […]
Assuming you’ve already “spun-up” a Linux cloud server of your choice, the first thing to do is update the system. I’m using CentOS because it’s free and binary compatible with Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL). […]
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