RE: laptop blocked after hibernate

2009-10-23 Thread Spahn, Daniel
ith stuff in a laptop that's buried somewhere on the system board But if you want to go all out, you could unplug the power supply and battery, remove the hard drive and RAM, let it sit for an hour, then reassemble. >2009/10/22 Spahn, Daniel mailto:dsp...@cuh2a.com>> >Hi list, I w

RE: laptop blocked after hibernate

2009-10-22 Thread Spahn, Daniel
>Hi list, I was triying to set up the liveCd for LFS. In liveCd I ran cfdick >and deleted the old partition then I've created two partitions, one for linux >and one for swap. After the creation >of the file system ext3 on the firs and >the mkswap on the second I'v lauched the swapon -v /swap/par

RE: Building Gettext-0.17 Error - LFS-6.5 Chapter 6.41

2009-10-06 Thread Spahn, Daniel
> From: mikl...@gmail.com > To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org > Subject: Re: Building Gettext-0.17 Error - LFS-6.5 Chapter 6.41 > Date: Tue, 6 Oct 2009 17:58:16 +0800 > > On Tuesday 06 October 2009 00:23:47 Antony Derham wrote: > > /usr/bin/ld: ../gnulib-lib/.libs/libgettextlib.a(error-progname

RE: Kernel panic - booting from USB harddisk

2009-09-28 Thread Spahn, Daniel
>I am building LFS from book 6.4 on an ext3 logical partition of an >external USB harddisk. >My host system is SUSE 10.3 on one of my two internal harddisks. > >Booting from the USB disk fails with >"[4.410067] Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount >root fs on unknown-block (2,0)" > >

RE: Help

2009-09-14 Thread Spahn, Daniel
-Original Message- From: lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org [mailto:lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Baho Utot Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 12:27 PM To: LFS Support List Subject: Re: Help Sam Vivacqua wrote: > The problem is that when I type the comand I

RE: error: bad value (native) for -mtune= switch

2009-09-04 Thread Spahn, Daniel
>Perhaps, I am having trouble reading instructions again. > >When I compile Glibc on pass 1 (Section 5.7.1) , I get and error >stating that my -mtune switch value is bad, but when I look in my >config.parms file, it shows: >CFLAGS += -march=i486 -mtune=native >just like the case code in the third

RE: Problem In Making The LFS System Bootable

2009-08-31 Thread Spahn, Daniel
From: lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org [mailto:lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Hugh Sent: Monday, August 31, 2009 8:47 AM To: LFS Support List Subject: Re: Problem In Making The LFS System Bootable On Mon, Aug 31, 2009 at 5:59 PM, Amir Khezrian wrote: > Hi everyone

RE: cannot unistall program

2009-08-19 Thread Spahn, Daniel
Replace Vista 64 with LFS 6.5. From: lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org [mailto:lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] On Behalf Of Lily Sent: Wednesday, August 19, 2009 10:47 AM To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: cannot unistall program Trying to unistall "weather channel"

RE: choosing a Package Management...

2009-07-23 Thread Spahn, Daniel
I have another solution that might work better for you LFS was obviously not designed specifically for package management- to me, it appears that the design of the OS is to teach the builder how to build software, and how to script such builds himself, and thus be an excellent learning tool,

RE: E2fsprogs aclaration...

2009-07-23 Thread Spahn, Daniel
Don't think there's a difference. The top of the source tree is the folder into which the contents of the tar are extracted. From: RaptorX Sent: Thursday, July 23, 2009 10:25 AM To: LFS Support List Subject: E2fsprogs aclaration... Hi... I dont have any troub

RE: Question @ 10,000 feet

2008-11-18 Thread Spahn, Daniel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Mike McCarty Sent: Tuesday, November 18, 2008 1:35 PM To: LFS Support List Subject: Re: Question @ 10,000 feet Alexander Haley wrote: [...] > What is to stop me from telling glibc to install itself into >

RE: Create Own Linux Distro

2008-09-29 Thread Spahn, Daniel
You could create a livecd with a tarball of the root filesystem, assuming you want those packages installed and configured exactly the way they are on your current system. Dan Computer Systems Manager -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of sa

RE: wireless woes Help!

2008-08-21 Thread Spahn, Daniel
One experiment you could try would be to download gentoo-sources. Gentoo is known for excellent hardware compatibility. It's my primary distro. I'd check to see how well those sources work- they've always served me well. The ipw3945 driver definitely supports kernel 2.6- I used it up until a few w

RE: I really need help kernel panic

2008-08-08 Thread Spahn, Daniel
L PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Spahn, Daniel Sent: Friday, August 08, 2008 2:35 PM To: Daniel Corda; LFS Support List Subject: RE: I really need help kernel panic We need more info. Can you supply your grub.conf (or the config for whatever bootloader you are using?) Also, are

RE: I really need help kernel panic

2008-08-08 Thread Spahn, Daniel
We need more info. Can you supply your grub.conf (or the config for whatever bootloader you are using?) Also, are you sure your kernel is correctly configured for the hard drive? You probably either have a typo in your bootloader config, or you have a misconfigured kernel. -Original Message

RE: Kernel panic... Unable to mount root fs

2008-07-01 Thread Spahn, Daniel
>Hi all, hope someone can help me out, it's been five years since I last used LFS (or linux for that matter!) so I'm a bit rusty... >I've gone through the LFS6.3 book. It all seems to go fine until I boot up the new system. These are the last three lines before it totally freezes: >List of all

RE: grub hangs without error message on mac mini

2008-04-28 Thread Spahn, Daniel
>Hi > >I've just installed LFS SVN-20080423 on a new Mac Mini (Intel) but the >computer doesn't start (no OSX, only one partition for Linux). All I see >is: > > GRUB Loading stage1.5. > > > GRUB loading, please wait... > > >There is no error message, nothing. I'm a little bit puzzled, as this

RE: grub hangs without error message on mac mini

2008-04-28 Thread Spahn, Daniel
>The file does exist and I installed grub in the grub shell with "root >(hd0,0)" and "setup (hd0)". I just looked the script I mentioned up. To achieve the same effect using manual grub instructions, use : grub --no-floppy -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://w

RE: GRUB Problem

2008-03-13 Thread Spahn, Daniel
Sorry for being unclear, this error is occurring when I use the "root (hd1,3)" command in section 8.4 to make the system bootable. I am aware of the different naming scheme, lfs is on partition sdb4 which (I think) corresponds to hd1,3, although I don't think that is the problem because I get the

RE: Bootstrapping from LFS Live-CD

2008-02-15 Thread Spahn, Daniel
>Now my question is, since I have the Live-CD is >"mkdir -v $LFS/sources" necessary? > >I would have thought something like "cp -a / $LFS" is >sufficient. OK, /mnt/lfs itself could go in circles. >In addition, I don't want all the stuff what a Live-CD >needs, just the bare minimum. > >Can somebod

RE: LFS/Busybox and user/group problem !

2007-09-20 Thread Spahn, Daniel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of JBLinux Sent: Thursday, September 20, 2007 4:44 AM To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: LFS/Busybox and user/group problem ! Hi all. I'm building a LiveCD based on kernel 2.6.20, busybox 1.6.0 a

RE: unrecognised option `-mtune=pentiumpro`

2007-09-15 Thread Spahn, Daniel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Richard Caldwell Sent: Sat 9/15/2007 5:11 PM To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: gcc:unrecognised option `-mtune=pentiumpro` Hi, in 5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain when I run: gcc -dumpspecs | sed '[EMAIL PROTECTED]/lib/l

RE: PCMCIA/udev help

2007-09-12 Thread Spahn, Daniel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of David Murphy Sent: Wed 9/12/2007 7:55 PM To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: PCMCIA/udev help Hi folks. This may be something silly... I've never dealt with PCMCIA cards on a low level before. I just installed LFS

RE: i486 Compilation and glibc

2007-08-30 Thread Spahn, Daniel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Andy Bennett Sent: Thu 8/30/2007 7:27 PM To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: i486 Compilation and glibc Hi, >>> I've tried setting -mcpu=i486 in CFLAGS and CXXFLAGS but the glibc build >>> whinges that it's de

RE: Can't open boot device

2007-08-26 Thread Spahn, Daniel
From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] on behalf of Walter Barnes Sent: Sun 8/26/2007 9:47 PM To: LFS Support List Subject: Re: Can't open boot device From: Walter Barnes <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >From: András Stöckert <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> >>I have installed lfs 6.2 and used the 2

RE: Error 127 while compiling glibc

2007-08-15 Thread Spahn, Daniel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Alec Wright Sent: Wednesday, August 15, 2007 8:45 AM To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Error 127 while compiling glibc Hi. When I try to compile glibc, I get this error: CPP='gcc -B/tools/bin/ -

RE: Performance issues

2007-07-12 Thread Spahn, Daniel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Zoran Kikic Sent: Thursday, July 12, 2007 10:51 AM To: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Performance issues Hello, I finally got my lfs system up and running. There still are some minor problems bu

RE: Headers problems

2007-06-08 Thread Spahn, Daniel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Tijnema Sent: Friday, June 08, 2007 4:46 AM To: LFS Support List Subject: Re: Headers problems On 6/7/07, Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 10:23:33PM +0200, Tijnema wrote: > >

RE: How To Figure Out What Module Supports Your IDE/SCSI/SATA controller?

2007-06-03 Thread Spahn, Daniel
I have not done a lot yet with LFS, but in my experience with a few different distributions, it has consistently been capabilities built into the kernel- LiveCD's, such as Gentoo, Knoppix, and of course the LFS liveCD have built-in detection of many different types of hardware. If you are trying fo

RE: 5.7 Problems

2007-05-31 Thread Spahn, Daniel
-Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Chris Staub Sent: Thursday, May 31, 2007 1:07 PM To: LFS Support List Subject: Re: 5.7 Problems Spahn, Daniel wrote: > Pete, > I ran into this last week when I performed the installation. What I fou

RE: 5.7 Problems

2007-05-31 Thread Spahn, Daniel
Pete, I ran into this last week when I performed the installation. What I found was that I had to chown lfs:lfs the folders... also, you may need to re-check the chmod steps in the environment setup to make sure that directories are set as sticky, and that the LFS user has the correct permission

RE: 6.9.1 Glibc-2.3.6 problems...

2007-05-29 Thread Spahn, Daniel
I missed that you were chroot'ed One thing I would try after reading Dan Nocholson's email is to switch to an alternate console that's not chroot'ed into the new environment and run slocate gcc. Look for anything under /mnt/lfs. Also, try changing your PATH variable to pur the /tools/bin at the

RE: 6.9.1 Glibc-2.3.6 problems...

2007-05-29 Thread Spahn, Daniel
Hi Peter, I had some "weird" problems the first few times I tried to build LFS. Here were some things that should *not* have been problematic, but seemed to contribute: Filesystem. Use the recommended ext3 (for some reason, Reiserfs was problematic in at least four attempts to build LFS.) Host syst

RE: Never use another distro, only LFS for me

2007-05-29 Thread Spahn, Daniel
Hi Peter, If you're looking for a source-based distro with good support and good package management, I recommend Gentoo as an alternate to LFS. Gentoo's Portage package management system is top-notch, combining a single-command-line installation for many packages with a database that includes versi