Re: LFS Chapter 5.34 and Ubuntu

2009-04-16 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, Apr 16, 2009 at 02:09:51PM -0600, Trent Shea wrote: > On Thursday 16 April 2009 13:19:56 stencil wrote: > > > Which is the better choice, -i or -s? And if it is to be > > -i, is the LFS 4.4 procedure the best way of ensuring that > > $LFS is set to /mnt/lfs, or should the $LFS specificat

Re: LFS Chapter 5.34 and Ubuntu

2009-04-16 Thread Trent Shea
On Thursday 16 April 2009 13:19:56 stencil wrote: > Which is the better choice, -i or -s? And if it is to be > -i, is the LFS 4.4 procedure the best way of ensuring that > $LFS is set to /mnt/lfs, or should the $LFS specification be > the *only* change made to root's native environment? I don't

LFS Chapter 5.34 and Ubuntu

2009-04-16 Thread stencil
LFS Chapter 5.34 advises ## The commands in the remainder of this book ##must be performed while logged in as user root ## and no longer as user lfs. Also, double check ## that $LFS is set in root's environment. The orthodox Ubuntu way of acting as root is to prepend 'sudo' to each command. I

Report on JHALFS with LiveCD 6.3 r2160

2009-04-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Sorry this is longish, but I didn't want to post piecemeal as I went, with "this failed" and what I did, then later "oh, this failed, too" etc. Too much clutter. Well, I have fiddled this and that, and somewhat gotten JHALFS to work with the LiveCd as the host distribution. The first hurdle is tha

LFS Live CD future direction -- a suggestion

2009-04-16 Thread Robert A. Lerche
First, I want to thank everyone involved in creating the LFS project. It is a beautiful piece of software craftsmanship -- useful, elegant and well documented. I'm writing this post because I have a suggestion for the Live CD part of the LFS project. I went back and read the Live CD mailing list