Re: It's supposed to work ?

--- Jean-Sebastien <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there ! > > I've found this HOWTO on how to "remaster the LFS > LiveCD" who we > "supposed" to be able to build our own live cd. > > My question is : Can we build our own LFS LiveCD > whit this doc ? Yup, you can. you can completely change t

Re: Bootstrapping from LFS Live-CD

--- Steven Locher <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Now my question is, since I have the Live-CD is > "mkdir -v $LFS/sources" necessary? it's as easy to copy the sources from th cd as to continually go back to the cd to get them, and once in chroot, it is far easier to use $LFS/sources than those on

LFS LiveCD x86_64-6.3-min-pre1

The email account I'm signed up with for the livecd list is refusing to send messages, the service provider is working on it. This is just so the problem I found is reported. I'll see if I can remaster r1950 to a 64 bit only version on Monday, my next day off, on my AM2 system and make the iso ava

re livecd users

Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Hello, > > I'm aware that this is perhaps a little off-topic for the -dev list, but > I feel that this thread could really help future development of the CD, > so please bear with me and help me out with as much feedback as you can > muster. :) > > The LiveCD project rare

Re: LiveCD and amd64

--- Bayrouni <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello all, > I plan to install LFS on an amd64 x2 laptop > . > But I have 2 questions: > 1/ I found only versions for x86, I am using an > amd64 laptop. and if you type linux64 at the boot prompt you get a 64 bit kernel. fwiw, I have used the livecd on a

Re: Never use another distro, only LFS for me

--- Roger Merchberger <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ~snip~ > I thought I read "Most applications." Crusoe > optimizations really do affect > most (all?) applications, including web browsing & > word processing. DVD > playing was quite dramatic - Winders couldn't do it, > and every Linux distro >

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED]/yaboot

--- Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Tue, May 29, 2007 at 11:21:03AM +0200, Gerhard > Ramsebner wrote: > > > > 2) The hfsutils aren't available right now > (ftp://ftp.mars.org/pub/hfs/) > > so I desided to create a msdosfs on the bootstrap > > partition. Does this work at all? > > >

Re: Understanding the boot sequence of an OS

--- Tijnema ! <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: ~snip~ > Finally it will start /bin/login, and show you a > login box asking your > username and password :) If you have things like > X/KDE/Gnome > installed, you probably won't notice it is starting, > because X starts > inside the bootscripts (rc3.d, r

Re: LFS and AMD64

--- [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > I’m not really sure where to post this, but I hope > to save some people > time in troubleshooting the problem I had. Googling > did not help until > near the end, but that's a matter of asking the > right question. > > I bought a new motherboard, the Asus M2A-VM,

Re: how can i make bootable my lfs system???

--- Sherzod Rakh <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > how can i make bootable my lfs system??? > i want burn my lfs system to disk and make this > system bootable from > cd (make live cd) > does anybody know how to do it??? > Thanks beforehand > -- > This might be a good place to start: http://www.li

Re: Buid LFS in a secondary disk

--- Daniel Ortiz Herrera <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> 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,

Re: Confusing Linux headers?

--- Dan Nicholson <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > One of the CLFS developers wrote on lfsdev that some users on IRC > were confused about whether the Linux headers were > the CLFS headers or not. ~snip~ > could you suggest some text that would clarify it? Maybe add something along the lines of: T

Re: LFS livecd questions

--- travis formoso <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hey guys - > > Decided to go ahead and use the livecd and not my > other distro because it > was not working out to well. > > If I use the Live CD - when I am done building the > LFS can I burn it to DVD > and use it later to build more onto it?

Re: No http/ftp program included in regular build?

--- Colin Dean <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > According to > http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0203.1/1087.html, > the > kernel-level DHCP features are meant more for things > like netboot > mounting the root filesystem using NFS and not > general usage, as a > userland DHCP client

Re: No http/ftp program included in regular build?

--- Jim Gifford <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > >> Technically you don't need a DHCP client, you > can use the kernel > >> autoconfiguration to setup your network working, > just add ip=dhcp. I use > >> it all the time. > > > > No kidding! Wow, I had no idea a feature like that > existed in the

Re: How do I convert single xml book's page to xhtml instead convert all?

--- nadav vinik <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hello > > I translate the LFS book from unknown reson to > hebrew. > > How do I convert single xml book's page to xhtml > instead convert all? > > It's take some minutes to convert the all book. > > Nadav The easiest way would be to get the "chunk

Re: Linux KVM Switch Support

--- Randy McMurchy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Dan Nicholson wrote these words on 09/07/06 11:27 > CST: > > > The question is, can anyone recommend a model to > use that will work well > > with the current kernel? > > I use an *old* Linksys KVM without any issues > whatsoever. It is a > ProCo

Re: Compiling with MSYS

--- "Shane D. Johnson" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I never saw this come through so if it is duplicated > I am sorry. > > Shane > > > I found MSYS while I was investigating QEMU. Has > anyone tried to use > it to compile LFS? > Shane, the Linux kernel actually requires gcc to build proper

Re: LFS build OS

--- Ross Cameron <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi there,.. whats the "official" if there is... > build distro for LFS? > > I'd like to start playing with it with the minimum > of hassle and effort, > I don't mind swapping host OS's. > > Regards > Ross > -- any linux is a build os. for simplest

Re: Problem with USB devices

--- Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Pedro Monjo Florit wrote: > > memory stick, /dev/uba appears. If I try to mount > /dev/uba1, it fails. > > The UB driver is buggy. Use USB_STORAGE instead. > > # CONFIG_BLK_DEV_UB is not set > CONFIG_USB_STORAGE=y > > Andy > -- Thanks Andy, You

Re: livecd

Dhaval Motghare, no flame, but before making a blanket statement about a lack of standards you should use google/linux and do a search, here is exactly what you complain about not existing: http://www.linuxbase.org/ a standard for all linux distros to meet. lfs will never meet it, neither will

Re: UTF-8 with LFS?

--- Andrew Benton <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Digimag wrote: > > It's really impossible to have Unicode on my LFS > distribution? > > No, the editors were just being cautious. If you're > interested, try Alexander Patrakov's UTF-8 version > of the LFS book > http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~al

Re: cannot copy and paste in LiveCD environ

--- Micheal E Cooper <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I have tried: > Ctrl-C/ Ctrl-P; CTRL-C / CTRL-V is the usual paste sequence, not CTRL-P > > Ah, the MS mouse... Maybe that's it. Maybe it's > trying to prevent me from > reaching Unix wizardhood. maybe, but the mouse isn't usally smart enoug

Re: is LFS LSB compliant?

--- Nick Matteo <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Macromedia has to do no such thing. All they have > to do for their code to run > everywhere is release their source. > > If they aren't willing to do that, there's a heck of > a lot more hassle to > install their hidden, uncheckable, unfree progra

Re: is LFS LSB compliant?

--- Matthew Burgess <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Jaqui Greenlees wrote: > >>Ken Moffat wrote: > >> > >>>LSB - no. The LSB is for providers of binary > >>>software, among other things it mandates RPM as a > package manager, > > >

Re: is LFS LSB compliant?

> Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Thu, 6 Oct 2005, Chakkaradeep C C wrote: > > > >> hi all, > >> > >> i just want to know whether LFS is LSB or FHS > compliant? > >> > > > > > LSB - no. The LSB is for providers of binary > software, among other > > things it mandates RPM as a package manager, real

Re: Important Notice

Pasha Zubkov wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: eBay *Dear eBay Member,* [snip] Can anybody block mail to list from ebay.com on server side? I recive ten html-formated emails from @ebay.com at last time. I just mark as spam through a webmail interface. the list sends me mes

Re: Booting New LFS System Ends in Kernel Panic

Justin Julian wrote: Dan If mandrake works, I would consider comparing the kernel options of the mandrake kernel with the LFS kernel you are having trouble with. If the kernel versions between your mandrake and LFS are different, then try to compile the LFS kernel version on your Mandrake system. I