Your missing some important steps in the setting up phase of the book. Specifically, the point where you create the /tools symlink into $LFS/tools - this is where the /tools comes from, and the fact that it is a symlink means it will actually install into $LFS/tools.
You should re-read Chapter 4, this has all the relevant details and explnations.
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Steve Crosby
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Thanks for the help - I had not clearly understood how a symlink operates. After reading the info on symlink and playing with a few symlinks to see how they work things cleared up. I still need to be careful about what is lost when the machine is shutdown. (The symlink goes and so do the bash initialization files - will try to create a script to build these and play some until I can initialize the environment after a reboot with as little typing as possible.) It seems that for the cd
export LFS=/mnt/lfs and mount /dev/hda1 $LFS will always have to be typed and mkdir -p $LFS never has to be typed.
I hope the inquires from people with as little knowledge as I have dosen't make you wish you hadn't developed this project.
Thanks again
Joe
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