I will not give up!

[vlok stone]

Mandrake has madwifi in their distro. Not trying to
convert anyone to anything, but some distro's seem to
be better choices for laptops. Rather than pull yer
hair out, you might want to give it a shot. Also check
out PClinuxOS (based in mandrake but comes w/ all the
goodies right out of the box -> flash,java,realplayer,
etc.) and it's like knoppix you can try it out first
by
booting from a CD. Another like this is Mepis, which
is debian based. Same as PclinuxOS. Hope this helps. 
 

--- JJ Neff <jjneff at yahoo.com> wrote:

> I have gentoo installed as well on a server and I
> think what he was asking was
> about uninstalls.  Gentoo had (may have now) no good
> uninstall routine to
> uninstall all the pieces of an application so you
> end up with lots of cruft.
> 
> Also I made the /var/tmp almost a GB - I think it
> was the var/tmp it's been so
> long since I've actually logged onto that machine. 
> I'll look again later and
> see what drive I had to make HUGE becase it kept
> running out of space.  I tried
> to reduce the drive space afterwards (I'm using
> EVMS2) but I couldn't shrink
> the space.
> 
> Anyway that's what I remember.
> 
> JJN
> --- Dave Andruczyk <djandruczyk at yahoo.com> wrote:
> 
> > 
> > --- Greg Neumann <dadneumann at adelphia.net> wrote:
> > 
> > > Dave,
> > > Has Gentoo made sense of what to do w/ all the
> temporary files you end 
> > > up with? I installed Gentoo about a year ago,
> and ripped it off because 
> > > I kept running out of temp space w/ a 1 gig /tmp
> partition! I can't 
> > > afford larger drives, and that space is
> precious. When I tried to make 
> > > intelligent deletions, I ended up w/ crippled X,
> etc. In this respect, 
> > > Gentoo was as bad as Windows, eating drive space
> for no good reason.. 
> > > Past that, Gentoo was pretty nice.
> > > -Greg Neumann
> > 
> > I've only had an occasionally issue with
> /usr/portage/distfiles filling up, 
> > but that's easily remedied.  The normal build
> point is /var/tmp/portage, (for
> > compiling) but once a package is built it's build
> files are removed, so
> > /var/tmp portage doesn't grow.  it WILL leave a
> directory behind in
> > /var/tmp/portage, but those take minimal space. 
> (I don't know for 100% sure
> > if
> > portage uses those old dirs or not....)
> > 
> > It's important to make sure there's enough space
> on the FS where /var is
> > mounted or you could run into built issues...  I
> typically use multiple
> > filesystems, and split things up so that if one FS
> fills it doesn't crash the
> > system.  I usually have "/" be about 200 megs, and
> have /usr, /var, /tmp and
> > /home (and /opt) as separate partitions. 
> > 
> > my current partition layout is like:
> > /dev/sda1               247903    116730    118374
>  50% /
> > /dev/sda5               396656    258277    117900
>  69% /var
> > /dev/sda6               404784      6260    398524
>   2% /tmp
> > /dev/sda7              4695344    190660   4504684
>   5% /scratch
> > /dev/sda8             11345200   4569232   6775968
>  41% /opt
> > /dev/sdb1              9211184   8168468   1042716
>  89% /media/audio
> > /dev/sdb3              8057152    644540   7412612
>   8% /scratch3
> > /dev/sdc1              5877728   3376132   2501596
>  58% /home
> > /dev/sdc3             11473920   7452000   4021920
>  65% /usr
> > /dev/sdd1             17775148  12694308   5080840
>  72% /other
> > none                    386752         0    386752
>   0% /dev/shm
> > /dev/sde1            156278784 156278724        60
> 100% /mnt/disk
> > 
> > 
> > 
> > =====
> > Dave J. Andruczyk
> > 
> > 
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