Re: [lfs-dev] gptfdisk

2012-12-31 Thread Richard Melville
We now install fdisk as a part of util-linux so we have chosen one > method right now for LFS. > Exactly. > > My issue is that if the user reboots to the new LFS, there is no way to > change the partition table if it is a GPT. The use would have to reboot > back to the host, make the change and

Re: [lfs-dev] gptfdisk

2012-12-30 Thread Richard Melville
I would like to propose adding gptfdisk to LFS. > > http://sourceforge.net/projects/gptfdisk/ > > It allows creation and management of GUID Partition Table (GPT) disks > using a fdisk type syntax. It's much easier to use than gnu parted. > > After using a GPT partitioned disk for a while, I recomm

Re: [lfs-dev] OT: Re: How to install Systemd-193 on LFS

2012-10-03 Thread Richard Melville
> Baho Utot wrote: > It goes beyond kernel modules, systemd will respawn daemons that have > stopped/failed. Opps slap me silly they are not daemons they are > services now. What's wrong with that? It reminds me of Dan Bernstein's daemontools where daemons are supervised and restarted when the

Re: [lfs-dev] Systemd

2012-09-28 Thread Richard Melville
Ragnar Thomsen wrote: > > On Thursday 27 September 2012 15:05:00 Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> My system boots to the login prompt in about 8 seconds without it. How > >> much time do you think it might save? > > > > My system boots to login in around 10 seconds, and when I use KDM an > > additional 20