On Thursday 26 May 2005 08:38, thorsten wrote: > > I am using SuSE 9.2 professional as my host distro. I have successfully > > set up a partition, set up a user, downloaded all the files, but have hit > > a problem in Setting up the environment (Chapter 4, page 31, LFS 6.0). I > > followed the instructions on the page, but realised something was wrong > > when I su to lfs and PS1 remains the default SuSE prompt, rather than the > > one I had set up. If I run env, I get a whole lot of environment settings > > that have come from the SuSE defaults somewhere. > > do a cat /home/lfs/.bash_profile, cat /home/lfs/.bashrc to check if both > files are where they belong and make sure both files look exactly like > in the lfs book. In .bash.profile the >>> -i <<< in the env command is > important. That one may be missing. > > have fun, > > Thorsten
Thanks for that. In the end I installed a copy of FC3 as this is just a test machine, and I got it to work fine. Looking back I wonder if I had been root rather than lfs when I created the files, although I cannot see how this would make a difference. -- Jim -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
