Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-09 Thread Jeremy Utley
TheOldFellow wrote: Jeremy Utley wrote: Donal Farrell wrote: Hi there. Is it possible to build BLFS from my host system (SuSE) until I have a GUI-based LFS-system to view the BLFS manual, etc? After the reboot, I throw in the Nvidia drivers, install Opera to /opt, configure X, an

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-09 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 09:11 -0400, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Restarting gpm? Unnecessary. Especially since this causes you to lose > some functionality. In order to highlight text in links so you can > copy, > all you need is to hold down the shift key while you drag over text. As simple as that.

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-09 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Henty wrote: On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 09:41:49AM +0100, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: I have been unable to use cut and paste from links. Is it available now? If I restart gpm after starting links then cut and paste from links works. This is with links-1.00pre12 . The downside is that I can

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-09 Thread TheOldFellow
Jeremy Utley wrote: > Donal Farrell wrote: > >> Hi there. Is it possible to build BLFS from my host system (SuSE) until >> I have a GUI-based LFS-system to view the BLFS manual, etc? After the reboot, I throw in the Nvidia > drivers, install Opera to /opt, configure X, and start up X using twm.

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-09 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Sat, 2005-04-09 at 10:13 +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote: > On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 09:41:49AM +0100, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: > > > I have been unable to use cut and paste from links. Is it available > > now? > > If I restart gpm after starting links then cut and paste from links > works. This

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-09 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Sat, Apr 09, 2005 at 09:41:49AM +0100, S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: > I have been unable to use cut and paste from links. Is it available > now? If I restart gpm after starting links then cut and paste from links works. This is with links-1.00pre12 . The downside is that I can no longer follo

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-09 Thread S. Anthony Sequeira
On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 22:09 -0700, Jeremy Utley wrote: [...] > > By doing this, you can easily get base web functionality available to > you on the initial reboot (networking and Lynx/Links), Cut/Paste ability > for those nasty sed lines in build commands (GPM), and easy downloading > of packag

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-08 Thread Jeremy Utley
Donal Farrell wrote: Hi there. Is it possible to build BLFS from my host system (SuSE) until I have a GUI-based LFS-system to view the BLFS manual, etc? Regards Richard and Andrew have taken you some of the way, but I'll throw in my 2 cents worth anyway :) As is mentioned in the new LFS book

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-08 Thread Steffen R. Knollmann
> Thanks Steffen, could I install gpm now in chroot and then boot into LFS > and read the manual that way? For reading you don't need gpm, that's just for having a mouse in the console :-) I think you can install in chroot, well, I wouldn't know why not. The only thing you'll need, is a text

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-08 Thread Donal Farrell
Thanks Steffen, could I install gpm now in chroot and then boot into LFS and read the manual that way? On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:40, Steffen R. Knollmann wrote: > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-08 Thread Steffen R. Knollmann
Ahoi! > Thanks guys, not being able to read the html-book on the new LFS system > was my main problem. Now as my host and LFS kernels are different (minor > number), I think I'll print out some of the BLFS book and plug away that > way. What you could do is to build a text-browser (lynx, links

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-08 Thread Donal Farrell
Thanks guys, not being able to read the html-book on the new LFS system was my main problem. Now as my host and LFS kernels are different (minor number), I think I'll print out some of the BLFS book and plug away that way. Regards, Donal On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 12:42, Andrew Benton wrote: > D

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-08 Thread Donal Farrell
Thanks guys, not being able to read the html-book on the new LFS system was my main problem. Now as my host and LFS kernels are different (minor number), I think I'll print out some of the BLFS book and plug away that way. Regards, Donal On Fri, 2005-04-08 at 13:02, TheOldFellow wrote: > Andre

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-08 Thread TheOldFellow
Andrew Benton wrote: > Donal Farrell wrote: > >> Hi there. Is it possible to build BLFS from my host system (SuSE) until >> I have a GUI-based LFS-system to view the BLFS manual, etc? >> > Do you mean "is it possible to do BLFS in chroot"? I think the answer is > yes, provided you're running the s

Re: BLFS starting point

2005-04-08 Thread Andrew Benton
Donal Farrell wrote: Hi there. Is it possible to build BLFS from my host system (SuSE) until I have a GUI-based LFS-system to view the BLFS manual, etc? Do you mean "is it possible to do BLFS in chroot"? I think the answer is yes, provided you're running the same kernel on your host system as you'

BLFS starting point

2005-04-08 Thread Donal Farrell
Hi there. Is it possible to build BLFS from my host system (SuSE) until I have a GUI-based LFS-system to view the BLFS manual, etc? Regards -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page