Re: ASUS EeePC Laptop

2009-09-14 Thread Alan Lord (News)
On 13/09/09 17:26, Adrian Fisher wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to put LFS on my ASUS Eee PC Laptop (40GB SSD) but it has no > CD/DVD drive and I have no external one. While it already has Linux on > it it is a minimal installation as it has no compiler and no means of > installing software manual

Re: Question @ 10,000 feet

2008-11-19 Thread Alan Lord
DJ Lucas wrote: > /usr/share/info/dir is most common, until you get past X, and get into > gconf, desktop file utils, etc. But yes, make install *can* and does > modify existing files. Simply copying from the DESTDIR to the final > destination will result in a broken system (though it's proba

Re: Question @ 10,000 feet

2008-11-19 Thread Alan Lord
DJ Lucas wrote: > The disadvantage is that if you move from the DESTDIR, you have to be > aware of things like the info dir, gconf updates, .desktop or icon > additions, etc. Pretty much any update to an existing file will have to > recreated manually. In the end, this is probably much better

Re: Question @ 10,000 feet

2008-11-19 Thread Alan Lord
Alexander Haley wrote: > Basically, the fundamental thing that bugs me is ... I type 'make > install' and scads of files arrive on the file system ... and I really > don't quite know their role, purpose or importance ... Do I really > need to know the purpose of each and every library file that is

Re: Dyslexia - or worse.

2007-12-06 Thread Alan Lord
Philippe Delavalade wrote: > Le jeudi 06 décembre à 15:48, Alan Lord a écrit : >> martin welsh wrote: >>> I am fumbling through and have now got to chapter 7 but not without some >>> bother with the instructions. >>> Early on you are told that you start by buil

Re: Dyslexia - or worse.

2007-12-06 Thread Alan Lord
martin welsh wrote: > I am fumbling through and have now got to chapter 7 but not without some > bother with the instructions. > Early on you are told that you start by building the tools chain and > should start from $LFS/tools. > Next - mkdir build file > next - cd build file ok so far. > Then

Re: building LFS

2007-12-04 Thread Alan Lord
Luuk wrote: > Hi, > i started reading the BOOK (Linux From Scratch - Version SVN-20071125) > i have the following questioon: > > In chapter 5.3.1 binutils-2.18 - Pass 1 the following is mentioned: > The Binutils documentation recommends building Binutils outside of the > source directory in a dedi

Re: "su - lfs" vs "su lfs" - su starts subshell, useless for automating in scripts..

2007-11-26 Thread Alan Lord
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi all, > > I am building my own little automated LFS install script in Bash. > Basically its a copy-paste job from LFS book, of course, with minor > corrections for function. > > One of the things i find difficult to script is a "nice" (read pretty) > way of continuing

Re: lfs book Chapter 5.14

2007-11-15 Thread Alan Lord
martin welsh wrote: > This one comes up fairly often, but I just checked the FAQ and > surprisingly it wasn't mentioned (or I missed it). > > IIRC, you need Bison and probably the associated development package too > - depending on your host. Have you checked your host meets the necessary > re

Re: lfs book 6-3 Chapter 5.14

2007-11-13 Thread Alan Lord
martin welsh wrote: > The resonse to the 'make' instruction is; > > "[EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lfs/sources/bash-3.2$ make > yacc -d ./parse.y > make: yacc: Command not found > make: *** [y.tab.c] Error 127 > [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/lfs/sources/bash-3.2$ " > This one comes up fairly often, but I just checked

Re: LFS Version SVN-20070926 - Perl Script for getting all packages

2007-10-26 Thread Alan Lord
Mag. Leonhard Landrock wrote: > Hi! > > In August 2006 I successfully completed my first and (so far) only one LFS. > > Allready back at that time I made myself bash scripts to make life easier. > Now > I started a new attempt with LFS for some special reason. ... > My "packages.pl" quite good

Re: install blfs using jhalfs.

2007-10-19 Thread Alan Lord
lfs lfs wrote: > I installed LFS using jhalfs with blfs tool support. I used livecd as a > host system. Now my lfs system is bootable and running. How can I > install blfs using jhalfs on lfs system. > > > __ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yah

Re: problem with tickless kernel?

2007-10-15 Thread Alan Lord
Colin Dean wrote: > Douglas J Hunley wrote: >> I'm using LFS 6.2 as my host while building 6.3 and I've run into what >> appears >> to be an issue with using a tickless kernel on the host. I make it thru chap >> 5 w/o any issues at all, but when i hit glibc )and later gcc) in chap 6, the >> tes

Re: less and passwd commands do not work correctly

2007-10-15 Thread Alan Lord
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I have been doing the CLFS stable book with an AMD 64 ATHLON. I got to the > shadow chapter and the passwd command would not allow user interaction. I > then ran man passwd and found that the man > comand did not work either. > Wrong list. Try the CLFS list [EMAI

Re: CPU freq scaling

2007-10-08 Thread Alan Lord
Just a note for this thread... Did you see this web site that appeared last week? http://www.lesswatts.org/ A great idea IMHO Cheers Alan -- The way out is open! http://www.theopensourcerer.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Re: R: Re: problem with my host system

2007-10-03 Thread Alan Lord
Dan Nicholson wrote: > FWIW, Alexander uses LVM for everything (I think), and the LFS server > (setup by Gerard) is on an LVM raid. So, it can't be that bad. But, I > agree that if you don't know how LVM works, it's a lot easier to use > real partitions. Alternatively, he can create two partition

Re: R: Re: problem with my host system

2007-10-03 Thread Alan Lord
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Acc! My Fedora system is really crashed. The rescue CD don't find my > sistem. I'll install a new distribution. > What do you suggest? I think > to create two partitions (physical hard disk partitions!) and install > my distribution on a partition and a LFS system on t

Re: problem with my host system

2007-10-02 Thread Alan Lord
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > Hi, my name is Massimo, I'm going to install a LFS system next my host > system, a Fedora core 4 distribution. > I followed the instructions by > LFS-book and the 'lfs_next_to_existing_system.txt', creating a > directory in /home/LINUX_FROM_SCRATCH, mount --bind etc. >

Re: X over SSH not working?

2007-09-27 Thread Alan Lord
Dan Nicholson wrote: > It'd be nice to just put it in the book in the configure statement. > You can set --with-xauth=/path/to/xauth. However, at that point, you > might not know what the path will be. But that option should at least > be noted in Command Explanations. > > -- > Dan Yes, I install

Re: root or user, getting picky

2007-08-16 Thread Alan Lord
Shane Shields wrote: > On Thursday 16 August 2007 9:54:14 pm Alan Lord wrote: >> Once that is done, you can just type "su" and you will become "root". > > Short and sweet. > > sudo -i > > :) > Cool :-) I never knew that! (Guess I shoul

Re: root or user, getting picky

2007-08-16 Thread Alan Lord
Clyde Forrester wrote: > Now the pickiness. In part 2.3 I'm guessing I should be root when making > partitions. Maybe I missed it. It doesn't seem to say. Of course I can > never really be root. I have to sudo wherever it is appropriate. That's not actually true... Open a terminal and type: s

Re: ARM gcc-static build problem

2007-08-16 Thread Alan Lord
Hirofumi Momose wrote: > Hello, > I am a newbie to CLFS. > wrong list - this is for LFS. You need to post this on the clfs-support list. Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: Ubuntu Feisty

2007-06-30 Thread Alan Lord
Miguel Bazdresch wrote: > William Harrington wrote: >> apt-get search libc6 doesn't give any dev package whatsoever. >> >> That's why I mentioned it. Maybe I gotta update some kinda >> package list or something. No idea, just reporting what >> problems others have done and I haven't been successful

Re: Building full system in chroot?

2007-06-25 Thread Alan Lord
Tijnema wrote: > On 6/25/07, Andrey <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >>> That's defenitly interesting, but what about optional dependencies? >>> Does it build them? I mean I want KDE with TTS support, so I want that the >> script installs Festival, Festival Lite and FreeTTS first... and that it >> builds

Re: building LFS gcc compilation problem

2007-06-09 Thread Alan Lord
Mauricio Henriquez wrote: > uuuh!!!, my new shiny LFS (by hand no automatic tool) system is > ready!!!, thank you very much fo such a great book, I follow they > instructions one by one and I don't have any problem, the book don't > have even a typo bug. > ...now to read and follow BFLS book

Re: need help with first boot no Dell Optiplex G110

2007-05-28 Thread Alan Lord
Alan Womack wrote: > The drive I want to boot from is on the Adaptec 3940 which is a scsi drive. > > The other drive is an IDE drive. If I have the IDE drive in the > system, it either hangs or the intel boot manager complains about the > cable. > > If I take it out, then the scsi drive will loa

Re: [Fwd: Re: Grub Setup]

2007-04-22 Thread Alan Lord
>> Ahh, I understand. The mount point /boot doesn't exists at that >> time and root means the root directory (/), that resides on hda3. >> >> The kernel is loading now, but I get another Error: >> >> VFS: Cannot open root device "hda3" or unknown-block(0,0) >> Please append a correct "root=" boot o

Re: LFS and AMD64

2007-04-11 Thread Alan Lord
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > The problem appeared to be the driver for the new AMD SB600 Southbridge > chip. It handles PATA and SATA. I found that support for this chip did > not appear until the Linux 2.6.20 kernel. The LFS live CD unfortunately > appears to use 2.6.18, so that won’t work for m

Re: problem installing the man db

2007-03-23 Thread Alan Lord
sizo nsibande wrote: > I have been cutting and pasting everything so as not to make any typo > errors, and just now I reinstalled the berkeleydb just to satisfy the > curiousity of the query Al mentioned. And as for either I installed > the berkeleydb, well I certainly did, but I think this has som

Re: how to backup lfs system

2007-03-22 Thread Alan Lord
ANIRUDH VIJ wrote: > hi, > i followed thre instruction in the lfs book 6.2 and my basic lfs system now > works well.I want to back it up so that after i mess around and spoil the > installation,i can still recover the system > i have enough space on other hard disk partitions to completely back up

Re: problem installing the man db

2007-03-22 Thread Alan Lord
Randy McMurchy wrote: > Are you certain you installed the Berkeley-DB package? > I'm not. If you did, something went wrong with your installation. > Note from my logs: > > checking db_185.h usability... yes > checking db_185.h presence... yes > checking for db_185.h... yes > checking for dbopen f

Re: One more VFS kernel panic error

2007-03-22 Thread Alan Lord
ILIOPOULOS ATHANASIOS wrote: > Hi, > > I am fairly new to linux and decided to try LFS to get my knowledge up > a bit. > I installed it with the normal procedure, (I believe i followed every single > letter of the LFS book) and installed everything with tests showing that > everything wa

Re: (chp 6.22) perl-5.8.8 make error on line 159

2007-03-19 Thread Alan Lord
sizo nsibande wrote: > Thanks a lot everyone and sorry about this whole mess, it turns out as > Alan sain I did not chroot into my toolchain properly I had to refere > to the links he gave me on the book because I had rebooted my machine. > Finally it has been about two a whole week battling this p

Re: (chp 6.22) perl-5.8.8 make error on line 159

2007-03-18 Thread Alan Lord
sizo nsibande wrote: > Could you please elaborate on how I am supposed to fix the /dev/null > issue if that is the problem because at first there was no /dev/null > at all and I created it my self using "touch" and when I run the > command that John suggested "test -c /dev/null && echo Ok" nothing

Re: Buid LFS in a secondary disk

2007-03-08 Thread Alan Lord
Alan Lord wrote: > If you are using ide then your two drives will be something like hda1 > and hdb1 (depending on how you partition them of course...) Sorry! Of course that should say hda and hdb. (the number after refers to specific partitions). If your PC uses SATA then the drives w

Re: Buid LFS in a secondary disk

2007-03-08 Thread Alan Lord
Daniel Ortiz Herrera wrote: > Hello: > I am ready to make my first LFS installation. a secondary HD will be my > $LFS (/mnt/lfs), my objetive is to finish the build and remove the host > system HD, put the LFS disk in the master bus and boot ...for do > that, i will need to change some conf

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Alan Lord
TheOldFellow wrote: > The only difficulty with JHALFS is if you want to build ALMOST what's in > the book. Like, for instance, I don't want the old sysvinit or Berk's > DB or Man-db or Syslog, but all the rest please. Now JHALFS isn't so good. That's a fair point. Although I do believe you can e

Re: Building software as an unprivileged user

2007-03-02 Thread Alan Lord
Tijnema ! wrote: > I build my whole LFS/BLFS system as root, nothing happpened, but as all > people aleady explained here, there is a security risk. > There are already some tools like JHALFS, but they don't work very well. What makes you say that? The tool works very well in my opinion. I can

Re: Where to unpack for section 6

2007-03-01 Thread Alan Lord
John Rodenbiker wrote: > I'm about the wade into Section 6 of LFS 6.2-3 but have a question: > Where should I put and unpack the tarballs and patches? > > In section 5 it was $LFS/sources. But having just reread section 6 I > don't see any suggestions for where to do this after the chroot. > > I

Re: 6.12 Readjusting the toolchain

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Lord
> Hi, cd didn't ask for keyboard layout. > I don't have any cursor. the mouse driver doesn't appear to be loaded. Mouse > does nothing(I'm in Ireland). > How do I get that working? If you type "man gpm" you get lots of information about how to setup gpm. You need to do a bit of self research he

Re: 6.12 Readjusting the toolchain

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Lord
> > Hi Al, > I'm a complete novice so any help is useful.I didn't know I could run more > than one tty useing ALT + F. I ve got the book open on the 2nd tty. How do I > cut & paste. I've tried starting GPM by typing 'GPM' and got the message > "08o.oops(): [gpm.c(933)]: Please use -m /dev/mouse

Re: 6.12 Readjusting the toolchain

2007-02-16 Thread Alan Lord
Richard Caldwell wrote: > Hi, > having the following problem that I dont undertsand? > > System: > using LFS LiveCD 6.0 > Dell optiplex P3 with 64mb RAM > > When I try to run > sed -i 's@ /tools/lib/ld-linux.so.2@ /lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' \ $(gcc > --print-file specs) > I get the error > sed

Re: jhalfs?

2007-02-10 Thread Alan Lord
Galaxy Travel wrote: > Im using jhalfs-2.1, I use make menuconfig and then exit, Now what do I do? > I tried ./jhalfs run but I get a error of line 39: conditional binary > operator expected. > here's some words: 1. try mailing the automated lfs list. That is where the jhalfs project is discu

Re: s390 expect-5.435 build help

2007-02-09 Thread Alan Lord
John Gnew wrote: > I am attempting to build LFS62 on a s390 system. > Hi LFS is only for x86 compatible processors. Try visiting the crosslfs project, and their mailing lists. You may get more help there even if they might not have actually built for the s390. Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch

Re: ALFS Build Error (binutils)

2007-01-21 Thread Alan Lord
James Mills wrote: > Hi all, > > I'm having troubles using the ALFS tools, > specifically jhalfs-2.1 > Try the Automated LFS list... alfs-discuss@linuxfromscratch.org Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe

Re: Udev & CUPS Problem

2007-01-19 Thread Alan Lord
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > No matter how you cut it, the new Udev must be at the core of the problem. > Think of it this way. I have a perfectly functional system with applications > A to Z running on it just fine. I install/upgrade application U without > conscientiously touching anything els

Re: Section 5.3 - permissions -

2007-01-17 Thread Alan Lord
Chuck wrote: > Version LFS 6.2.3 Live CD > > Book Section 5.3 > > When attempting to create the directory binutils-build using > > mkdir -v ../binutils-build > Am I in the right directory at this time? I have seen other messages which > indicated I need to be in the directory: > /m

Re: kernel panic!

2007-01-04 Thread Alan Lord
Mauricio Casanova wrote: > Hello, > I've already finished compiling, configuring and installing my LFS > system. But, I obviously did something wrong, because when booting from > my new LFS a kernel panic appears. > The last lines of the booting output are: > [...] > NET: Registered protocol fami

Re: 5.3. Binutils-2.16.1 - Pass 1 make error

2006-12-17 Thread Alan Lord
Daniel Burge wrote: > Hello, > > I am using the Current Stable version of 6.2. Also, I am installing this > on a x86 machine. I couldn't find anything from google, or looking > through the list archive. > > Also, I started the whole book from the beginning again and receive the > same error.

Re: eth0 interface

2006-12-16 Thread Alan Lord
Ken Moffat wrote: > If you have now got rid of the rule, then as Alan said, you > probably are missing the correct driver in the kernel. Checking > this in dmesg is a little harder - any messages are specific to the > driver, and the messages only show with certainty if you get > everything work

Re: eth0 interface

2006-12-16 Thread Alan Lord
Arden wrote: > I see the lfs web portal is back online. was there some trouble? > > My first boot of my new lfs 6.2 system and I get a boot warning message: > Eth0 interface doesn't exist... > > > will someone kindly point out the obvious to me? Arden It sounds like you are probably missing th

Re: GRUB 0.96 does not find my HDD

2006-12-02 Thread Alan Lord
Angel Tsankov wrote: Al The problem was that I executed udevstart as user udev rather than as root. Thanks a lot, Al! No problem, I'm glad to have helped... Al -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: Bash 3.1 make fails

2006-12-01 Thread Alan Lord
yardcat wrote: I'm building LFS 6.2 on another i386 box using PC Linux as host and everything has been going fine until running make in the compilation of - 5.14.Bash-3.1. I get this error; lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/bash-3.1$ make yacc -d ./parse.y make: yacc: Command not found make: *** [y.tab.c

Re: GRUB 0.96 does not find my HDD

2006-12-01 Thread Alan Lord
Angel Tsankov wrote: Bind mounting is not mentioned here, so I guess it is not needed. Furthermore, GRUB 0.96 DOES detect my HDD when I build LFS 6.1.1 wihtout package users. No it was introduced in 6.2. IN 6.1.1 read section 6.8 carefully. If you follow this, you will realise that $LFS/dev/w

Re: GRUB 0.96 does not find my HDD

2006-12-01 Thread Alan Lord
Angel Tsankov wrote: Hello, It sounds to me like /dev wasn't bind mounted to $LFS/dev before you entered chroot... Alan Bind mounted?! What do you mean? Read the book here: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06/kernfs.html section 6.22. You need to repeat the page'

Re: GRUB 0.96 does not find my HDD

2006-12-01 Thread Alan Lord
Angel Tsankov wrote: Hallo! I've just installed LFS 6.1.1 with GRUB 0.96. Still in the chroot'ed envorinment I started the grub shell: grub --device-map=/boot/grub/device.map In the shell, I just entered "quit". Then I listed the contents of the /boot/grub/device.map file: (fd0) /dev/fd0 It

Re: Freebox configuration

2006-11-27 Thread Alan Lord
Nicolas FRANCOIS wrote: Hi all users, and especially french users. I received my freebox today (a DSL modem provided by Free.fr). I want to switch from my old USB Alcatel Speedtouch modem to this new modem. The Linux part of the documentation is only for Debian users, and I didn't find anything

Re: Errors while compiling GCC

2006-10-17 Thread Alan Lord
Denis Silin wrote: Hello. I downloaded gcc-4.0.3, applied a patch gcc-4.0.3-specs-1.patch (patch -p1 All like in the book. There is an error like that. In file included from ../../gcc-4.0.3/gcc/crtstuff.c:64: ../../gcc-4.0.3/gcc/tsystem.h:90:19: error: stdio.h: No such file or directory ..

Re: backup lfs 6.2 to dvd?

2006-10-11 Thread Alan Lord
Arden wrote: After building and successfully booting LFS 6.2 I would like to backup the system I have made so far. If I burn a copy of the system onto a dvd can it be restored without any special problems? will everything copy successfully? I have never done this before and if anyone has any a

Re: kde with xgl?

2006-10-04 Thread Alan Lord
Alberto Hernando wrote: El Miércoles, 4 de Octubre de 2006 10:00, Alan Lord escribió: You can now (apparently) run this with ONLY xorg 7.1 and the beta Nvidia driver. No need for Xgl or AIGLX any more :-) I haven't tried this yet If you try it, could you tell us in case of success? Th

Re: patches

2006-10-01 Thread Alan Lord
Arden wrote: I don't know if I have all the knowledge necessary to complete LFS but I want to give it a go. My question is ; Should the patches be applied immediately after installing a package? The book isn't quite clear. Thanks. Arden Hi Arden, I'm not quite sure what you mean by "after

Re: Linux KVM Switch Support

2006-09-07 Thread Alan Lord
Dan Nicholson wrote: The question is, can anyone recommend a model to use that will work well with the current kernel? I'd prefer a switch that has DVI inputs since the monitor is an LCD and both cards should be able to drive it digitally. How do these switches interact with X? I've never used

Re: mounting ptoc

2006-08-31 Thread Alan Lord
dave frost wrote: somehting strange has happened, it seems mount reports proc is mounted about 15 times, theres also loads of entries in /etc/mtab but /proc/mounts reports /proc mounted only a single time. Any thoughts on why proc is being mounted so many times ? (note ive modified the init s

Re: New project on distributed computing

2006-07-12 Thread Alan Lord
Luca Dionisi wrote: Hi everybody I received many replies on that idea, but they are suggesting me that my first post was a bit misleading. So I'm working to write down a better explanation of the intent of the project and I will post here the link to that page as soon as it's ready. Just to st

Re: VmWare's hda disk and grub

2006-06-29 Thread Alan Lord
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 6/28/06, lanas <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: now I have no idea what grub expects the hda drive to be. I've tried simply counting from the first sda drive (i.e. hd3 for hda) but this does not work. Do you have the file ${LFS}/boot/grub/device.map? That should describe th

Re: saving startup output?

2006-05-25 Thread Alan Lord
Angel Tsankov wrote: When I start LSF I can see some output to the terminal most of which passes too quickly for me to read and remember. Does this output get saved somewhere so that I can have a look at it afterwards? type dmesg -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FA

Re: grub doesn't find the root disk

2006-05-03 Thread Alan Lord
marco van der grient wrote: Hi, For some reason the complete install went just fine (good job LFS!) but making the system bootable was a problem: when I chroot into the system (from the live CD), call grub, I get errors about not finding the root disk (not a block device). When I want to check

Re: grub setup Error 22

2006-02-23 Thread Alan Lord
> as grub won't be able to install to a boot sector of a "virtual" disk it needs a physical device. Grub won't have loaded any drivers to make the raid array visable at boot time you need a single disk really. Matt I installed grub on an old IBM Rackmount server with dual processors and

Re: grub problem: LFS (v6.1.1) Sec 6.45 and 8.4

2006-02-14 Thread Alan Lord
David J. Hong wrote: I successfully installed grub in section 6.45 and run grub shell in section 8.4, following error appears: grub> root (hd0,7) Error 21: Selected disk does not exist When you are entering the grub shell in section 8.4 have you made sure that you have re-entered your chr

Re: How to proceed to BLFS

2006-02-05 Thread Alan Lord
Andrew Benton wrote: boovarahan boovarahan wrote: Please guide me. What I did when I first did LFS was print pages out and then type them in when I rebooted to LFS. This worked OK till I got to things like tcl and docbook, then I started writing scripts to avoid typos. Another alternative

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-02-01 Thread Alan Lord
Josh wrote: > One thing I noticed in doing this, was that my hard drives were swapped in grub, but not once the LFS Operating System took over. What I mean by that is that where LFS's hda was grub's (hd0) and hdb was grub's (hd1), after I changed the boot priority in my BIOS, hda (the windows d

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

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

Re: problem with "fixed" font on X

2006-01-30 Thread Alan Lord
>> 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 sections of Chapter 25 and not 26 - My fault! There is an important

Re: problem with "fixed" font on X

2006-01-30 Thread Alan Lord
Ricardo Frydman Eureka! wrote: I've downloaded and compiled libpng-1.2.8 and Fontconfig-2.3.2 (supposedly) without errors. Downloaded and compiled, following the book, xorg. Try to run it with: X -config ~/xorg.conf.new and I get Could not init font path element /usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/100

Re: Minimal specs for LiveCD?

2006-01-27 Thread Alan Lord
IraqiGeek wrote: On Friday, January 27, 2006 7:01 AM GMT, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, Are there two modes on the LiveCD, e. g. console vs. graphical? The liveCD doesnt come with a GUI. It just boots a minimal system that enables you to build LFS. If you want a liveCD Lin

Re: grub configuration error

2006-01-26 Thread Alan Lord
boovarahan boovarahan wrote: Hi ! I tried to install grub and the command "root (hd1,6)" returns the msg "selected disk does not exist". I am using my /dev/hdb7 for lfs. it has the swap partition on partition 1 (/dev/hdb1), and partitions 5,6 are used for other linux system. Please guide me.

Re: New LFS user: introduction

2006-01-25 Thread Alan Lord
Richard A Downing wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:03:24 +0100 Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm an Austrian writer living in Montpezat (South France), and a 100% GNU/Linux user since 2001. Excellent, you are the 'Target Audience'. Welcome to LFS. One question, just on the curi

OOo2 Build Error

2005-12-14 Thread Alan Lord
Hi gang, I'm trying to build OOo2 on my shiny new LFS (SVN 20051127). This is the last major app I need to install. The build fails during the ".bootstrap" phase and it looks to be something to do with libxslt... This machine has a full LAMP (Linux, Apache, MySQL, PHP) and lots of associate

Re: defkeymap.c not found

2005-12-09 Thread Alan Lord
Chandan M. C. wrote: Hai , During compilation of keymap into the kernel-2.6.11.12 in chapter 8.3 of lfs6.1.1 .i couldn't find the defkeymap.c instead it has defkeymap.c_shipped and defkeymap.map. This is the command i have to run. loadkeys -m /usr/share/kbd/keymaps/[path to keym

Re: LFS-6.1.1 released

2005-12-01 Thread Alan Lord
Chris Staub wrote: Please ignore my previous post - I'm just plain stupid at 08:30am. Of course they are different - GCC4 v GCC 3 just for starters. Sorry for the noise. Al Nope. Have you looked at the book and read the Changelog? I used the development SVN, which is WAY different. Al

Re: LFS-6.1.1 released

2005-12-01 Thread Alan Lord
Alan Lord wrote: Hi, I have just built (last night) a JHALFS build from SVN 271105. Is there any [much] difference between that version and 6.1.1? Thanks Alan Please ignore my previous post - I'm just plain stupid at 08:30am. Of course they are different - GCC4 v GCC 3 jus

Re: LFS-6.1.1 released

2005-12-01 Thread Alan Lord
Matthew Burgess wrote: The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS 6.1.1. This release includes fixes for all known errata since LFS-6.1 was released 4 months ago. You can read the book online at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.1.1/ or download it fro

Re: Moving /root partition

2005-10-18 Thread Alan Lord
Hi, I do this procedure quite often. My Linux machine has a partition JUST for building new LFS versions. Once that is finished, I them move everything over to other partitons. Having a separate /boot partition is useful. My pc is partitoned thus: hda1 = /boot(small < 100Mb EXT) hda2 = s

Re: LFS Partition Setup

2005-09-18 Thread Alan Lord
Andrew Benton wrote: > Jedediah Klusman wrote: > >> KK trying to install LFS using live cd. Heres my question, I want my >> final LFS distro to have this directory/partition structure >> hda1 / >> hda2 SWAP >> hda3 /var >> hda4 ext >> hda5 /home >> hda6 /usr >> >> However from reading the book i

Re: Grub Error 21? Can't Boot PLEASE IGNORE - FIXED

2005-03-16 Thread Alan Lord
Alan Lord wrote: Hi all, I'm looking for some advice please... I have built many LFS systems before and some using grub. This is the first time I've had any real problems. I have successfully completed everything in the book (LFS 6.0) up to and including installing grub on the M

Grub Error 21? Can't Boot

2005-03-16 Thread Alan Lord
rootnoverify (hd0,0) makeactive chainloader +1 And for Linux: title LFS 6.0 root (hd1,9) kernel /boot/lfskernel-2.6.8.1 root=/dev/hdb10 == Anyone got any clues as to why grub won't even load??? Thanks Alan Lord -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listi