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tld
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Thanks Tony0945 and figueroa! Good points. When I get a chance I think I'll add that option for sure.
The new machine rocks...I CANNOT believe my compile speeds...supernatural, especially compared to what I'm used to. My biggest issue so far...not surprisingly thanks to the a-holes at Mozilla...is getting the current version to use my old ~/.thunderbird copied over from the old machine:
https://forums.gentoo.org/viewtopic-t-1126297-highlight-.html
Googling that one to no avail reminds me EXACTLY of every Windows issue I've ever had to deal with...endless double talk and 1000 answers, none of which work. Don't get me started...thanks again!
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figueroa
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Try launching Thunderbird from the commandline with "thunderbird -p" so you can pick your old profile. That's what worked for me. May need to do the same thing with Firefox.
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tld
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| figueroa wrote: | | Try launching Thunderbird from the commandline with "thunderbird -p" so you can pick your old profile. That's what worked for me. May need to do the same thing with Firefox. |
That sounds like what I ended up doing (I marked that one as solved)...assuming that -p is the same as -profilemanager.
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figueroa
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| tld wrote: | | figueroa wrote: | | Try launching Thunderbird from the commandline with "thunderbird -p" so you can pick your old profile. That's what worked for me. May need to do the same thing with Firefox. |
That sounds like what I ended up doing (I marked that one as solved)...assuming that -p is the same as -profilemanager.
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Yes, it does, though you'd never know that from thunderbird's help that you get from "thunderbird --help" which is lame and ambigous.
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tld
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Wow...I just have to second Tony0945's recommendation for refind...can't say enough about it. My configuration is much like his, where /boot itself lives on / and my /dev/sda1 EFI system is mounted at /boot/efi. Here's what I love about this:
1. With the kernel "make install" I don't have to remember to mount anything.
2. The very existence of the kernel from make install under /boot causes refind to give it as an option...literally nothing else to do.
3. refind also finds bootable USB devices etc without having to use the systems boot option screen.
One especially cool aspect that I discovered with #3: My motherboard's system screen has a "fast boot" option, though it warns that while that's faster, you can't boot from USB etc. Funny thing is that when using refind, that's actually not the case. The systems EFI runs refind with no problem using that fast boot, and refind gives you the option for and attached USB devices etc...and they do in fact work.
Just plain awesome in my book! Thanks Tony0945! Possibly the best recommendation I can recall from these forums.
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Tony0945
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| Posted: Wed Dec 30, 2020 1:23 am Post subject: |
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| tld wrote: | | Thanks Tony0945! Possibly the best recommendation I can recall from these forums.Tom |
I'm blushing profusely. So glad to give back. IIRC, you have given me many good suggestions over the years.
THIS is th3e spirit of Open Source. Not "It's free!" |
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| Tony0945 wrote: | | THIS is th3e spirit of Open Source. Not "It's free!" |
Yes it is! I have to say...I'm getting a massively rejuvenated appreciation for Gentoo now that I have a machine that (literally) compiles more than 70 x as fast as I'm used to...this is AWESOME. I don't even have to think about adding USE flags and just doing a world update to apply them. On this machine I can literally sit there and watch it finish. Compiling my kernel (all of it, after a "make clean") using "time make -j16" took 1 minute 13 seconds...awesome.
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