I'm building the development version. Since I didn't want to lose my work in case I had to backtrack (slight RTFM problem, you know) I backed up my build environment at chapters 5.34 and 6.61. I ran into boot problems when finished, so I backed up again at that point, deleted the working file set, and tried to unzip the 6.61 saved set to step back through and see what I did wrong.
Yes, I failed verify the backup sets, and I deleted the existing fileset. Yes, even though there was plenty of room on the disk. And, of course, the backups are unrecoverable. The problem is that I used the "zip" program since I didn't want to look up the switches to use one of the native Unix utilities. (tar -xvf is almost a reflex action, but I almost never have to *create* a compressed file) The Info-Zip code goes all the way back to DOS like I do, so I know the command line switches by heart. I reached for a familiar tool, but it was the wrong one - while it will happily make a zip file of any size, it can only unzip a file of 2Gb on a 32-bit system or 4Gb on a 64-bit system. My backup zipfiles are 4.3 to 4.6 Gb. (VMware directories) So I've lost the host environment, downloaded source files, and all. Y'all can point and hoot at my lapse of good practice, and I'll get back to work... -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
