Re: 64 bit Linux Live CDs

2005-08-01 Thread Lennon Cook
By the time you get to Chapter 6, the host system doesn't matter any more: it provides a running kernel for you - the toolchain and the libraries are handled by the temporary system that is the general focus (read: "the whole point") of Chapter 5. Whether you get a pure 64 bit system, and where stu

Re: 64 bit Linux Live CDs

2005-08-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Mon, 1 Aug 2005, Jeremy Henty wrote: > > Thanks to everyone who educated me about 32/64-bit issues. I've been > having trouble finding the recommended 64-bit live CDs. I'm > bewildered if I can find Gentoo's, and the download link at > http://stockwith.co.uk/x86_64/> is broken. But I *have*

[ANN] Pure64 x86_64 from i686 hint

2005-08-01 Thread Ken Moffat
I have a preliminary version available at http://www.kenmoffat.uklinux.net/hints and the necessary patches are at ../patches/ (most of them are standard LFS-6.1). For anybody who still doesn't recognise the "pure64" label, it means putting all the 64-bit libraries in lib instead of lib64. This

Re: [ANN] Pure64 x86_64 from i686 hint

2005-08-01 Thread Jim Gifford
Ken Moffat wrote: I have a preliminary version available at http://www.kenmoffat.uklinux.net/hints and the necessary patches are at ../patches/ (most of them are standard LFS-6.1). For anybody who still doesn't recognise the "pure64" label, it means putting all the 64-bit libraries in lib inste

Re: Hint for builting LFS using LiveCD

2005-08-01 Thread Joseph M Dupre (AVAB Inc.)
On 30 Jul 2005 at 0:00, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > It's not so clear that whether you want to make a Live CD, > or You already have LiveCD and now you are facing some kind of > problem. It > would be better to state clear uyour problem. I thought I was clear. I am not trying to make a live CD.

Re: Hint for builting LFS using LiveCD

2005-08-01 Thread Joseph M Dupre (AVAB Inc.)
> > It seems to me that if you have booted an "empty" system (i.e empty > > hard drive) with the LFS CD, then you can entirely skip chapter 5 > > (the temporary system) and go straight to chapter 6. Is this right? > > No. You won't be able to chroot into an "empty" system. But I thought the poin

Re: [ANN] Pure64 x86_64 from i686 hint

2005-08-01 Thread Matthew Burgess
Jim Gifford wrote: Jim, please please please, for the sake of everyone's sanity, can you learn to trim your quotes please. Quoting Ken's *entire* email to add just 2 lines is completely unnecessary. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www

Re: Grub boot-disk as backup

2005-08-01 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, 30 Jul 2005, Jens Olav Nygaard wrote: > I'm about to start tinkering with Grub (tired of doing the 'root' and 'kernel' > command manually in "command mode" in an old "grub-installment" done by some > Fedora-thingy in the past) and would like a backup, since I may (i.e. will) > mess things

Re: 64 bit Linux Live CDs

2005-08-01 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Mon, Aug 01, 2005 at 12:25:21PM +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > I dunno if anybody has managed to build from a ubuntu live CD. The > package versions should be ok, it's a question of whether they > include all the necessary packages and headers. Well, we'll see. I guess the good thing about Gento

BLFS-6.1-pre1

2005-08-01 Thread Bruce Dubbs
The Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS) Team is pleased to announce the release of BLFS 6.1 Prerelease 1. This book is the complement to Linux >From Scratch 6.1 and provides build and installation instructions for over 360 Open Source packages, including X Windows, KDE, and Gnome. The book can be fo