Re: getting started

2011-06-16 Thread Bill Cunningham
Matthias Feichtinger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011 22:38 schrieb Bill Cunningham: >> Matthias Feichtinger wrote: >>> The very beginning, OK. You do know vt, or onsole an d how to use >>> gpm? >> I've never heard of gpm. Do you mean vi or vt. Never heard of >> vt. I know what a console is

Re: getting started

2011-06-15 Thread Matthias Feichtinger
Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011 22:38 schrieb Bill Cunningham: > Matthias Feichtinger wrote: > > The very beginning, OK. You do know vt, or onsole an d how to use gpm? > I've never heard of gpm. Do you mean vi or vt. Never heard of vt. I > know what a console is though. I don't have xfree on my mach

Re: getting started

2011-06-15 Thread Glendon Blount
I might make a suggestion if you have not installed gentoo you might try that first. This will give you an idea of what you are trying to do since gentoo compiles most everything instead of installing prepackaged binaries. Once you understand how to install gentoo then move on to lfs. It should tak

Re: getting started

2011-06-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
Matthias Feichtinger wrote: > The very beginning, OK. You do know vt, or onsole an d how to use gpm? I've never heard of gpm. Do you mean vi or vt. Never heard of vt. I know what a console is though. I don't have xfree on my machine. Just ncurses. Bill -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailm

Re: getting started

2011-06-15 Thread Matthias Feichtinger
Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011 18:33 schrieb Bill Cunningham: > I have the book but I don't quite understand the bash scripting and > such. The very beginning, OK. You do know vt, or onsole an d how to use gpm? -- Der Versand unverschlüsselter und unsignierter Nachrichten wird nicht gewünscht,

Re: getting started

2011-06-15 Thread Bill Cunningham
Matthias Feichtinger wrote: > Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011 04:07 schrieb Bill Cunningham: >> I don't even know how to get started with LFS. I'd like to >> eventually add X or Xfree support. I have a fat32 partition reserved >> to change to an ext3 and begin with if I knew what to do after using >

Re: getting started

2011-06-15 Thread Anand Arumugam
Follow the book to the letter... Contact this list if you experience any problems... On Wed, Jun 15, 2011 at 7:19 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:07:32 -0400 > "Bill Cunningham" wrote: > >>     I don't even know how to get started with LFS. I'd like to eventually >> add X or Xf

Re: getting started

2011-06-15 Thread Andrew Benton
On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 22:07:32 -0400 "Bill Cunningham" wrote: > I don't even know how to get started with LFS. I'd like to eventually > add X or Xfree support. I have a fat32 partition reserved to change to an > ext3 and begin with if I knew what to do after using mke2fs. Should binutils > b

Re: getting started

2011-06-15 Thread Matthias Feichtinger
Am Mittwoch, 15. Juni 2011 04:07 schrieb Bill Cunningham: > I don't even know how to get started with LFS. I'd like to eventually > add X or Xfree support. I have a fat32 partition reserved to change to an > ext3 and begin with if I knew what to do after using mke2fs. Should > binutils be compi

getting started

2011-06-14 Thread Bill Cunningham
I don't even know how to get started with LFS. I'd like to eventually add X or Xfree support. I have a fat32 partition reserved to change to an ext3 and begin with if I knew what to do after using mke2fs. Should binutils be compiled without any versioning support? Maybe with the -static link

Re: Getting started with LiveCD

2005-12-06 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
David Murphy wrote: So... are there shortcuts that can be taken in these sections considering the relatively "clean" use of a standard LiveCD? Or should I just suck it up and manually set up the user and environment (assuming that's even possible) each time I (re)start? That's a workable way to

Re: Getting started with LiveCD

2005-12-05 Thread Jeremy Monnet
On 12/6/05, David Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm taking another run at LFS. I installed it a while back and loved the > result until I moved to where I needed to go wireless and could not for the > life of me get the adapter to run. Now I'm back on a wired connection and > looking to try a

Getting started with LiveCD

2005-12-05 Thread David Murphy
Heyo. I hope this is the right list... the LiveCD list seems to be more for making custom LFS CDs. I'm taking another run at LFS. I installed it a while back and loved the result until I moved to where I needed to go wireless and could not for the life of me get the adapter to run. Now I'm back on

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-06 Thread MIke Cruz
Matthias B. wrote: On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 15:31:39 -0500 MIke Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: So sounds like i will repartion my harddrive give LFS some room then take my time install LFS learn alot and in the end have a really really nice system. Thanks again I strongly advise against repart

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-06 Thread Matthias B.
On Sat, 05 Mar 2005 15:31:39 -0500 MIke Cruz <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > So sounds like i will repartion my harddrive give LFS some room then > take my time install LFS learn alot > and in the end have a really really nice system. Thanks again I strongly advise against repartitioning just for t

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread MIke Cruz
TheOldFellow wrote: MIke Cruz wrote: So sounds like i will repartion my harddrive give LFS some room then take my time install LFS learn alot and in the end have a really really nice system. Thanks again Mike, Good luck with it. I hope you have as much enjoyment from LFS as I have. Finally, a bl

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Molton
MIke Cruz wrote: My question is with the kernel-2.6.8 that LFS is using will my system still work. I mean that I was not able to get my wireless working until I rebuilt my kernel using 2.6.11 Just use 2.6.11. its almost garaunteed to work. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-suppo

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread TheOldFellow
MIke Cruz wrote: So sounds like i will repartion my harddrive give LFS some room then take my time install LFS learn alot and in the end have a really really nice system. Thanks again Mike, Good luck with it. I hope you have as much enjoyment from LFS as I have. Finally, a blatant advert for some

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread MIke Cruz
TheOldFellow wrote: MIke Cruz wrote: Hello I have a question before I take the leap to install a LFS system. First I have a HP Pavilion zv5034us Laptop 2.66 P4 with 1GB of RAM Ati IGP integrated video 128MB shared mem Ati

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread TheOldFellow
MIke Cruz wrote: Hello I have a question before I take the leap to install a LFS system. First I have a HP Pavilion zv5034us Laptop 2.66 P4 with 1GB of RAM Ati IGP integrated video 128MB shared mem Ati IPX150 AC'97 integrat

Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread MIke Cruz
Hello I have a question before I take the leap to install a LFS system. First I have a HP Pavilion zv5034us Laptop 2.66 P4 with 1GB of RAM Ati IGP integrated video 128MB shared mem Ati IPX150 AC'97 integrated sound