Interesting problem with LFS6.2/porting effort

2007-03-06 Thread Dave Klingler
Hi everyone. I'm trying to get some development tools up and running on a Freescale 8349MiTX PPC box. The chip is a 603-based SoC, and it'll run binaries generated on my Kurobox 266 MHz 603. Although the target box came with a running Linux/Busybox system (with no tools), the LTIB scripts that c

Re: Configuring the Linux Console

2007-03-06 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 3/6/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In my system there is no such directory. I suppose the correct one is > /lib/kbd/. > > Bug? Or is there something wrong with my system? Yeah, looks like a bug. It's fixed in the development version. Something to add to the errata. Thanks for

Re: 6.2 Boot Failure: Populating /dev with device nodes

2007-03-06 Thread David A. Gershman
> > On Mar 1, 2007, at 6:58 PM, David A. Gershman wrote: > > > (also posted on LinuxQuestions.org in LFS Forum) > > > > Hello, this is a continuation from a thread on the Linux Kernel forum. > > > > I've got my drive being recognized by the kernel, but the system still > > won't boot. It results

Configuring the Linux Console

2007-03-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
In Ch. 7.6 (stable version): "If still in doubt, look in the /usr/share/kbd directory for valid keymaps and screen fonts" In my system there is no such directory. I suppose the correct one is /lib/kbd/. Bug? Or is there something wrong with my system? -- Jorge Almeida -- http://linuxfromscratc

wrong time

2007-03-06 Thread Michael Hofmann
I am using LFS6.2 with lighttpd and php4. My hardware clock is set to UTC (as set in /etc/sysconfig/clock), my timezone is set to Europe/Berlin (UTC+1). Consequently, 'date' shows the correct local time. However on login I get UTC shown with the '\t' parameter in /etc/issue. Also php returns tim

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-06 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2007-03-01 at 17:45 -0700, Shawn wrote: > Sorry Brian, I did not read your post closely enough. I think you have > no choice but to run such a script as root. However, maybe you could > build all the packages (as user) then, when they are all built, stop > and do a sudo/su and install e

Re: hotplug

2007-03-06 Thread Jorge Almeida
On Mon, 5 Mar 2007, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 3/5/07, Jorge Almeida <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> >> OK. What is still confusing to me is that the binary /sbin/hotplug >> doesn't exist (besides not being used). What package would install it, >> if we were to use it? Does the kernel (in its defau