Building 'clean' production system

2006-02-05 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
Hi all, I am looking for a way to build a clean production system. ie system without development parts. RATIONALE: I do not need binutils or gcc or something like this on my router. (if I realy need binutils --- corect me please) The main idea is to use the development tools from toolchain to bu

grub over softvare raid

2006-02-06 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
With lilo it was posible to say boot=/dev/md0 root=/dev/md0 in /etc/lilo.conf and lilo will corectly install boot loader over software raid. (you will need mbr for every disk in raid in this case, but this is not problem) How I can install grub loader over /dev/md0 software raid mirror ? (the lo

Re: Building 'clean' production system

2006-02-06 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
"Alexander E. Patrakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dimitry Naldayev wrote: > >>I am looking for a way to build a clean production system. ie system >>without development parts. >> > You have two approaches. > > A) [preferred] Use Debian S

Re: Udev_update branch: /dev/pts and /dev/shm directories not created

2006-02-22 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dan Nicholson wrote: > >> So, am I to gather from Matt and DJ that udevstart won't work >> correctly from udev-084? Or just that it's not installed by default? > after I did "/etc/rc.d/init.d/udev start" in chroot I have ruined the host system by some

Re: Bugs in udev_update branch

2006-02-26 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
"Alexander E. Patrakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Bryan Kadzban wrote: > >> It should be easy enough to have only "start" and "restart" targets, and >> have the "restart" target do a "killall udevd" (or whatever), then >> simply run "$0" start (perhaps after waiting for a second). > > No, that

Web forum about LFS

2006-03-01 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
Hi all, There is russian web forum dedicated to LFS at the site of Perm Linux Users Group http://linux.perm.ru/forum/viewforum.php?f=10 --- Dimitry -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information pa

Re: [LFS Trac] #684: Must re-evaluate package order then document the rationale.

2006-03-05 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
Richard A Downing <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Matthew Burgess wrote: >> Richard A Downing wrote: >>> Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >>> Nothing *depends* on vim, so >>> leave it at the end. >>> >>> >>> I depend on vim. Put it at the front. >>> Only just :-) >> >> Actually, if we were to replace

Re: List of package urls

2006-03-08 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Randy McMurchy wrote: > >> Why is it that the package URL is not listed, but only the location >> where it *should* be? >> > >> So, why not just list the package URL? > > Short answer...it's a historical oversight, I think. > > Long answer... > > We u

Re: Drive geometry problem

2005-03-19 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
Tyler Packer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: [/dev/null] > {s,c,}fdisk -l /dev/hda says: > /dev/hda 82220544 bytes, 82MB, 16 heads, 63 sectors, 159 Cylendars > > This is BAD! It appears that the disk utils are using the (incorrectly > reported) physical geometry instead of the logical. I know I

Re: Can ncurses be removed from Chapter 5?

2006-01-03 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
Chris Staub <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > I'm just looking for ways to reduce the temp-system in /tools as much > as possible. I've built LFS systems before without having ncurses > there and it works fine. I believe the only issue is texinfo - many > programs in chapter 6 need it to build their i

What about diffutils-2.8.7

2006-01-08 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
Hi all, Look like cross-lfs use diffutils-2.8.7 --- Dimitry -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: More ICA

2006-01-08 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
"Alexander E. Patrakov" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > 3) links doesn't support UTF-8. So if you are using the en_US locale, > everything is fine. But in en_US.UTF-8, you will have to change your > preference. and... links add extra space left to the text. so I can not cut and paste from lfs book

Re: What about diffutils-2.8.7

2006-01-08 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dimitry Naldayev wrote: >> Hi all, >> Look like cross-lfs use diffutils-2.8.7 > > That's an alpha version of the package. cross-lfs are free to do what > they want, but the main LFS book will stick with stable

about stripping

2006-01-08 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
There are some info and man pages in /tools/share/{info,man} not much but is... so if we want to remove them in chapter 5.31 too, we need to say something like: rm -rf /tools/{,share}/{info,man} --- Dimitry -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

Question about News on the LFS site.

2006-01-15 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
This is a quote from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/news.html : Latest SVN Changes * Manuel Canales Esparcia - 2006/01/13 + Indented chapter 03. + Ported r7273 from trunk. ^^ What is this news entry about? Is this about a trunk? (but in the c

Re: Question about News on the LFS site.

2006-01-15 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> writes: > Dimitry Naldayev wrote: > >> + Ported r7273 from trunk. >> ^^ What is this news entry about? >> Is this about a trunk? (but in the case it is unclear why we need porting >> so

List of package urls

2006-01-15 Thread Dimitry Naldayev
The chapter 3.2 "All Packages" contain not urls of the packages but only urls their locations. Are there main reason for this? Why not to put in the book direct urls to packages (as it done in HLFS book for example)? RATIONALE: It is not easy to keep the list of packages urls to download (with wget