On 29/11/2011 11:04, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > David Scott Williams wrote: >> Here is the section I did not do. I did not realize that it was >> mandatory (I thought it was cosmetic ;)) > Building an OS is complicated. Don't assume. There are a couple of > places where we say an item is optional, but not many. > > The most general recommendation for the first few times is do things > *exactly* as specified in the book.
In David's defense I can understand his point too. If all the book says is "to remove the I have no name! prompt" then I can see where that sounds like it's not all that significant. In our defense, passwd and group files are core/essential Linux files that no *NIX system lives without so we also make our assumptions that certain things are just understood by Linux users. It's definitely a bit of a grey area. Cleaning up the text a bit would not necessarily be a bad thing either (not to be confused with excessive hand-holding but have it be more correct as there are additional reasons beyond that I have no name prompt although that's probably the most visible of reasons). Gerard -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
