I never answered your question: after doing the export LFS=/mnt/lfs; ls -ld $LFS/sources says directory not found, from root.
I added a label to the 'partition' and now I can view the folders from my file manager... but still not accessible in terminal mode. Thanks William On 01/11/2014 01:50 PM, William Darryl Jackson wrote: > On 01/11/2014 01:24 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: >> Le 11/01/2014 16:33, William Darryl Jackson a écrit : >> >>> Now I find-out that g++ is not on my system, and thus c++. I install the >>> program and decide to remove the ../gcc-build folder to reconfigure gcc >>> from that point forward. I have switched back to the $lfs user but when I: >>> >>> mkdir -v ../gcc-build >>> >>> I find that I now do not have permission; "permission denied". I checked >>> the folder permissions - the owner is lfs, but the group is root. If I >>> am the owner, why no permission? This is what got me turned around >>> previously. This time I thought I would ask, why this occurs. Before I >>> start making changes. Yes, I am doing an 'echo $LFS', regularly. >>> >> What is the exact output of "ls -ld $LFS/sources"? I have: >> >> drwxrwxrwt 5 root root 36864 janv. 5 22:17 /mnt/lfs/sources >> >> So user lfs is not even the owner, but everybody has right to write, and >> there >> is the "sticky" bit (last t), which just means that a file belonging to some >> user cannot be removed or modified by another user. >> >> Now, there may be other reasons. Your system may use acl (access control >> lists), or selinux, which further restrict permissions. What is your host >> distribution? >> >> regards >> Pierre > Good point about the write permissions. I have other problems, tho. I am > building this to an external drive and I have mount problems. I get the > device name as root, but the media name as user. And my files 'sources', > 'tools' are only visible to root. > > I have to figure-out /etc/fstab... probably to not mount at all, and > then do manual mount - because we have /mnt/lfs.... when ultimately, if > I can ever be successful - grub will need to see /dev/sdb2 - which > currently is only accessible by root. I just did a 'chown -R lsf:lsf > /mnt/lsf.... need to put it back to root:root and try to figure-out the > mount situation. > > My build is Debian. I am interested in LFS because of all the craziness > (lack of control). > > Thanks, > > William -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
