Bruce wrote:
> > Can you suggest any technical resources where I might learn the gory
> details of this?
>
> Read the source: Look in GRUB ./grub-core/boot/i386/pc/boot.S
Ok.
> Every directory is written in the inode structure of it's parent. This
> is implemented using hard links. To learn
> > Specifically, if you want to do "mount /dev/sda5 /mnt/lfs", but you
> have to create the directory "/mnt/lfs" BEFORE you do the mount, then
> where does the inode information about "/mnt/lfs" get written? I'm sure
> I'm missing some details.
> >
> In the beginning, you just have the root filesy
Bruce wrote:
> >> From other recent reading I now understand that this whole scheme is
> >> a kludge, and that's why it's not straightforward to understand.
> >> I always wondered why there was a limit of four primary partitions,
> >> and why there was even the notion of primary partitions, as opp
Hi Henrik,
> For your grandmother (-:
I'll be sure to forward your email to her. ;-)
Seriously, this is among the most useful articles -- and I do mean "article" --
that I've read about this topic. Thank you!
> Suggestion: Stick to MBR for now!
> When you have learned how it works, you may try
Bruce wrote:
> > sda2 is not really a partition. It contains the extended partitions.
> > In your case, sda5 and sda6.
>
> Actually an extended partition is a partition, but it has sub-
> partitions. All this stuff is avoided with a GUID Partition Table
> (GPT) which is a lot more sane in the wo
Philippe Delavalade wrote:
> > Set up the partitions like this, using an ext4 filesystem:
> >
> > /dev/sda1 /boot 100M
> > /dev/sda2 Extended Linux partition ~100G
> > /dev/sda5 Linux swap 2G
> > /dev/sda6 / ~98G
> This see
dennisjperk...@comcast.net wrote:
> ...
> sda refers to the drive, not to the partitions that you have on the drive.
> You can make a partition the same size as the drive, but it is the partition
> that contains the filesystem, not the drive.
Thank you! That clears up a lot.
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Thank you all very much for your advice!
Here's what I propose to do now, given your inputs:
Don't put LFS on the SSD -- use a regular hard drive.
Set up the partitions like this, using an ext4 filesystem:
/dev/sda1 /boot 100M
/dev/sda2 Extended Linux partition ~1
Bruce wrote:
> > One of the problems with learning the nuts and bolts of Linux is, as
> > Richard Stallman wrote back in the 1990s, that the documentation is
> > sparse at best.
>
> That's not true today.
Ok, then, in addition to beating myself up with LFS, can you suggest any
reading material
Philippe Delavalade wrote:
> > I read the man page for mke2fs and it's as clear as mud. And the LFS
> > book is completely unclear about exactly what is going on.
>
> The book suppose that you have some knowledge about linux and
> partitions
> :-)
Well I do have *some* knowledge. It's just a mat
Bruce wrote:
> For an SSD drive, I suggest getting gptdisk (fdisk syntax) or gparted
> (challenging syntax) and partitioning the drive as a gpt drive. The
> first partition should be at sector 2048 or 1 MB. Make /boot 1 M, swap
> 2G, / 20G, and /home as desired. I like to leave some space. I a
Bruce wrote:
> > But I still don't understand what I'm doing.
>
> I get the feeling that you are not ready for LFS. Use a standard
> distro for a while.
Perhaps you don't know how persistent I am. :-)
Seriously, I've used Unix and Linux as a plain user for 33 years. Now I want to
learn the nu
Philippe Delavalade wrote:
> > When I go to section 2.3 to create a file system "on the partition",
> > the book says:
> >
> >
> > To create an ext3 file system on the LFS partition, run the
> following:
> >
> > mke2fs -jv /dev/
> >
> > Replace with the name of the LFS partition
Henrik wrote:
> >
> > Kernel Configuration
> >
> > Enable the following options in the kernel configuration and
> recompile the kernel if necessary:
> >
> >
> > How do I know if recompiling the kernel is necessary?
> A few replies have already been given, but I am wondering what
I'd like some clarification of the boot process after installing LFS.
My Intel machine has 3 disks:
/dev/sda (1TB) has WindowsXP on it, and the Master Boot Record. fdisk indicates
that its only partition is marked boot.
/dev/sdb (500GB) has a Debian installation with 3 partitions, including Lin
Howdy,
Following BLFS Version 2012-10-10; Chapter 9. General Libraries, I'm trying to
compile glib-2.34.0
on my Redhat 5 system (not as root but a regular user), along with a lot of
other stuff. The
required dependencies are met. I got the following error:
###
Making all in
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> When I run into a problem like yours, finding a header in this case, I
> like to paste the long instruction into vi and edit it so I can see
> what is going on.
Very helpful, thanks!
> In this case, you are missing a header so I looked
> at the -I parameters. In my build,
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > What do you and other LFS developers tend to use?
>
> LFS :)
LOL! Now that you've bootstrapped yourselves, you stick with it. :-)
Thanks for your help.
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> >> A waste of HW.
> . . .
> I was referring to Windows.
Oh. :-)
> My experience with Ubuntu is mixed. The earlier versions, 8.04, etc
> were OK, but the latest ones with Unity were slow and had too much eye
> candy. I've not looked at any recently.
What do you and other L
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > Currently I have Windows7 installed on a 180G SSD, as well as several
> > 1-3TB hard drives.
>
> A waste of HW.
Why? I use one big drive for audio and video stuff, another for general
backups, and want yet another to put the Linuxes on. The separate one for Linux
is for
I recently put together my personal computer for general purposes, but also to
play around with various Linux versions and LFS. It's a fairly high end machine
with a near-top Intel Core7 processor, 32G of memory and plenty of space in the
case for extra hard drives. Currently I have Windows7 ins
Following up here on my first email:
So, has anyone on this list successfully build MesaLib-8.0.4?
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William Harrington wrote:
> Sometimes you can't build mpfr mpc and gmp within the gcc source tree
> for some targets. We found that out in CLFS. That's we we don't build
> gmp mpc and mpfr within the tree. Works okay for x86 and x86_64,
> however, when you start building for other targets, it beco
Bruce wrote:
> Linux looks in /lib and /usr/lib by default. LD_LIBRARY_PATH just says
> to add that to the search path. /etc/ld.so.conf can also add
> directories to be searched.
So looking in /lib and /usr/lib is hardwired?
I take it that in normal circumstances, /etc/ld.so.conf is sort of a
Elly wrote:
> Then my first suggestion would be to ask the sysadmin about testing the
> latest version of the software you're using,
> or test it yourself. If it works as good or better, then see about convincing
> them to upgrade everything to its latest
> version. You could also make the case
Bruce wrote:
> > ... So I have to install everything in my own directories. I've
> > succeeded in doing this, and am now tying up a lot of loose ends.
>
> You could have told us that at the beginning!
Sorry, I didn't think it was relevant.
> Use:
>
> export LD_LIBRARY_PATH=$LD_LIBRARY_PATH:/ho
Elly wrote:
> > I suspect that something to do with ldconfig is my problem, but I
> don't understand how that plays into the complete Linux system.
> >
> > Alan
> >
> This might be completely off-topic, but have you tried using a VM to
> build LFS? I have seen some portable versions of VirtualBox
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> > My ldconfig doesn't have a -a option.
>
> Sorry. Without the link and as root:
>
> # ldconfig -v | less
What does running this as root get you as opposed to running it as a regular
user? I don't have root access. So I ran this as a regular user.
I'm doing all this in un
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Try:
> $ ldconfig -a
My ldconfig doesn't have a -a option.
> $ ldd /bin/bzip2
Here you go. Remember that the link in question was removed.
$ ldd /bin/bzip2
linux-vdso.so.1 (0x7fffa6cb6000)
libbz2.so.1.0 => not found
libc.so.6 => /usr/lib/libc.so
> -Original Message-
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> boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Dubbs
> Sent: Friday, August 24, 2012 1:24 PM
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> Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Link to libbz2.so
>
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> -Original Message-
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> boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Bruce Dubbs
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> Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Link to libbz2.so
>
>
Hi,
In the LFS book, version SVN-20120824, section 6.19.Bzip2-1.0.6, there is a
line near the end:
ln -sv ../../lib/libbz2.so.1.0 /usr/lib/libbz2.so
The problem I've experienced is that when bzip2 fires up after this compilation
step, it can't find the library libbz2.so.1.0 . When I make anoth
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