Re: stuck at part 5.4 in the manual

2009-09-25 Thread John Graham
> What should I do? I set the permissions for this user back in step 4.3. I > also tried to log back in as root but I never created a password for root, > so I'm stuck as being the user 'lfs'. Not having a root password is a problem! Remember that when you enter the chroot, you're root - so get ou

Re: stuck at part 5.4 in the manual

2009-09-25 Thread Robert Cox
you are in the wrong location of the file tree probably maybe only one . not two..? --- On Fri, 9/25/09, aztec...@comcast.net wrote: From: aztec...@comcast.net Subject: stuck at part 5.4 in the manual To: "Linux From Scratch" Date: Friday, September 25, 2009, 3:05 PM #yiv16

Re: stuck at part 5.4 in the manual

2009-09-25 Thread Mike McCarty
aztec...@comcast.net wrote: > hey everyone, > > I have followed and done all the steps according to the manual up to part 5.4 > and when I type: > > mkdir -v ../binutils-build > > it says: mkdir cannot creat directory '../binutils-build' : Permission denied What does $ ls -ld .. say? How

stuck at part 5.4 in the manual

2009-09-25 Thread aztec007
hey everyone, I have followed and done all the steps according to the manual up to part 5.4 and when I type: mkdir -v ../binutils-build it says: mkdir cannot creat directory '../binutils-build' : Permission denied What should I do? I set the permissions for this user back in step 4.3. I al