David Shaw wrote: > After a few years of trying to find *the* perfect distro for me, I've > decided that the only way I'm going to get it is to build it myself. > Hence I'm trying LFS, but have run into a problem. > > I am using the LFS Live CD, version 6.3-r2145 and, because this is my > first attempt at building my own system, I'm sandboxing it by installing > to a Virtualbox VM. Working from the LFS book version 6.5 (actually, > re-reading this email before posting, could that be the problem? A > slight disparity between the v6.3 disc and v6.5 instructions?). > > My problem is that the first command under chapter 5.4, binutils - mkdir > -v ../binutils-build - fails with a 'permission denied'. First > question, am I working in the right place? > > lfs:~$ pwd > /home/lfs > > If not, where should I be? What else do you want to know to point me in > the right direction? > > And yes, I know I'm probably doing something really simple and stupid, > but for the life of me, I can not work out what.
As root: chown -v lfs $LFS/sources su - lfs cd $LFS/sources The sources should be in $LFS/sources. Go back and carefully check that you understood and did all the instructions in Chapter 4. It will be very helpful for you to understand why each command is there. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
