Re: LCFS Build complete!

2006-01-31 Thread Jim Gifford
Thanx John, we really appreciate the comments. The CLFS list is up as cross-lfs, still awaiting gmane to sync up with it. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.lin

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Josh
--- Georg Schinnerl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > then use the following command to write this bootsector into a file > "dd if=/dev/hdb5 of=/root/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1" > > copy the file "boot.lnx" to your windows partition and add a line > similar to the following to your "boot.ini" that's

LCFS Build complete!

2006-01-31 Thread John Gay
Well, I don't see a clfs-support list, and I don't feel confident enough to comment on the book contents, so I'll crow here instead. Let me know if there's a more appropriate place for these discussions. Just finished my 64-bit build on my Dual Opteron! I followed the pure-64 build plan from th

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Subhash Chandra
> I'm not going to mince words...this is the worst advice you can possibly > offer an LFS newbie. I accept -- I don't know how much of what I say is true -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above inform

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Chris Staub
Subhash Chandra wrote: @mr.danial I have an advise for you even if the rest of them decide I'm crazy! As you seem to be hell bent over LFS, get the livecd and use jhalfs or nalfs. You don't need much config there and default works fine. Once you get the system up and running, go for blfs and you

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Subhash Chandra
@mr.danial I have an advise for you even if the rest of them decide I'm crazy! As you seem to be hell bent over LFS, get the livecd and use jhalfs or nalfs. You don't need much config there and default works fine. Once you get the system up and running, go for blfs and you'll get some package comp

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Subhash Chandra
> > hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this > > mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely > > preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline > > if something goes wrong. The next task at hand is to figure out how to > > t

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
--- Ricardo Frydman Eureka! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I am a non-English speaker too. > I think that LFS is not for everyone, I hope you understand what I > mean > > You need some basic requirements to get it succesfully working: > > + some linux basis have improved trying with LFS. tha

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread Matt Darcy
mrdaniel wrote: hi, i got another situation here that the following messages appeared in the boot process :- starting system log daemon ... nice: syslogd: no such file or directory starting kernel log daemon nice: klogd: no such file or directoty. we had checked and the /etc/syslog.conf

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
--- Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > probably > missing some of the finer points in the book. When you encounter a > word > or phrase you're not familiar with, how do you work out its > meaning? > by experimetation. for example the page for untaring had been misunderstood and a ne

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread Ricardo Frydman Eureka!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mrdaniel wrote: > --- Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > >>Before you ask another question here, please list what you steps >>have >>taken to find the answer to this problem yourself. Before *ever* you >> >>post a request for help here,

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 1/31/06, mrdaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > ok, that's equivalent to the notion of mastering an art it may take as long > as 3 years before one can come down from the mountain to deliver in the real > world. > IMHO 3 years is too much, one week is too few. Regards Luca -- http://linuxfrom

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
mrdaniel wrote: your point is taken seriously and in fact tried over more than 15 times building LFS more than 3 weeks with daily about 12 hours and even scrificing our Chinese Lunar New Year for the urge to do one at least perfect LFS. but till now not there yet. If you expert could lend a hand

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
--- Luca Dionisi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Then, you don't need LFS. You can live easily and *productively* > with any recent linux distro. > Really. Try and you'll see. > ok, that's equivalent to the notion of mastering an art it may take as long as 3 years before one can come down from the

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 1/31/06, mrdaniel <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Chinese Lunar New Year for the urge to do one at least perfect LFS. but till > now not there yet. If you expert could lend a hand LFS sould be up and > running in perfection I believe in less than a normal working week. Doing > searches elsewhere

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
--- Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Before you ask another question here, please list what you steps > have > taken to find the answer to this problem yourself. Before *ever* you > > post a request for help here, you should have at least used Google > to > search for an answer. As

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/30/06, Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this > mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely > preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline > if something goes wrong. The next task

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
:) On 1/31/06, Matt Darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > http://redora.redhat.com > http://www.debian.org > http://www.suse.com > http://www.ubuntu.com > Why not www.microsoft.com and try to ask for support to them? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linux

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
mrdaniel wrote: hi, i got another situation here that the following messages appeared in the boot process :- starting system log daemon ... nice: syslogd: no such file or directory starting kernel log daemon nice: klogd: no such file or directoty. we had checked and the /etc/syslog.conf

syslog

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
hi, i got another situation here that the following messages appeared in the boot process :- starting system log daemon ... nice: syslogd: no such file or directory starting kernel log daemon nice: klogd: no such file or directoty. we had checked and the /etc/syslog.conf has been coded an

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
--- Matt Darcy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > 3 HD's with numeric prefix in /etc/inittab ??? what does that mean, i worked throughout with 3 PCs thus have 3 HDD, and each have been done according to the book, but as at now realised the typo error etered as for 6.56.2 cofiguring Sysvinit, the group

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Randy McMurchy wrote: Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: http://redora.redhat.com It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. What was its name, Astro? :-) Ruh roh. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscra

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Shane Shields
Randy McMurchy wrote: Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: http://redora.redhat.com It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. What was its name, Astro? :-) LOL -- Shane Shields Registered LFS Compiler: 7582 To drink the WINE of success you

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Matt Darcy
Randy McMurchy wrote: Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: http://redora.redhat.com It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. What was its name, Astro? :-) Its the new distro - keep up Randy, don't you know anything -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: > http://redora.redhat.com It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. What was its name, Astro? :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Li

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Matt Darcy
i had checked and corrected those entries but upon reboot it still loops there. But its funny thing is that out of 3 HD with numeric prefix in the etc/inittab, those did not had that only one that was built with a PIII-450. hence what is the correct step to take. thanks 3 HD's with num

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
--- Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > You are really trying everyone's patience. > > FAQ > i had checked and corrected those entries but upon reboot it still loops there. But its funny thing is that out of 3 HD with numeric prefix in the etc/inittab, those did not had that only one that

Re: gkd-pixbuf-config ?

2006-01-31 Thread Randy McMurchy
Luca Dionisi wrote these words on 01/31/06 08:16 CST: > I've got problems installing a software that require GTK+1. > It complains it doesn't find gdk-pixbuf-config. Indeed, I've not this tool. > > How do I obtain this tool? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/gnome/gdkpixbuf.html

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Georg Schinnerl
> --- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- > Von: Josh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> > An: "lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org" > Betreff: first successful boot with GRUB floppy > Datum: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:44:16 -0800 (PST) > > As the title states, I successfully booted my shiny new LFS-6.1.1 > system with the aid o

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Alan Lord
mrdaniel wrote: - similarly up to INIT Id "6" respawning too fase: disable for 5 minutes no more processes left in this run level and stuck there.. what could have been incorrect. please advise. thanks You are really trying everyone's patience. FAQ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mai

gkd-pixbuf-config ?

2006-01-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
Hi all I've got problems installing a software that require GTK+1. It complains it doesn't find gdk-pixbuf-config. Indeed, I've not this tool. How do I obtain this tool? I installed GTK+2. As required I installed before GLib 2, Imlib2 Then I installed GTK+1 (and GLib 1, Imlib1) I searched googl

spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
hi, upon rebooting after completing the book, got the following screen lines INIT Id "1" respawning too fase: disable for 5 minutes INIT Id "2" respawning too fase: disable for 5 minutes - similarly up to INIT Id "6" respawning too fase: disable for 5 minutes no more processes left in this r

Re: problem with "fixed" font on X

2006-01-31 Thread Ricardo Eureka!
2006/1/30, Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>: > >> here's a couple of pointers that may (or may not) help... > >> > >> Did you actually configure your fonts as explained in the subsequent > >> sections of the book Chapters 25 and 26? > > > > > > Did I miss something? > > Sorry - I meant the last two

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Josh wrote: > hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this > mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely > preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline > if something goes wrong. The next task at hand is to figure out how to >

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Alan Lord
Josh wrote: As the title states, I successfully booted my shiny new LFS-6.1.1 system with the aid of the grub rescue disk! You should've seen the grin on my face when it happened... priceless. The next task at hand is to figure out how to tweak the windows boot.ini file to default boot my