Hi Steve, Tks for your advice.
- snip - > When you "su" you load a new environment, and your > $LFS variable is > lost, so the chown is attempting to access /sources, > instead of > /mnt/lfs/sources. > > do a "export LFS=/mnt/lfs" and run the chown again. Continued proceeding as follows; # export LFS=/mnt/lfs # chown lfs $LFS/tools # chown lfs $LFS/sources both went through without complaint # su - lfs -bash-3.00$ -bash-3.00$ cat > ~/.bash_profile << "EOF" > exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' /bin/bash > EOF -bash-3.00$ cat > ~/.bashrc << "EOF" > set +h > umash 022 > lFS=/mnt/lfs > LC_ALL=POSIX > PATH=/tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin > export LFS LC_ALL PATH > EOF -bash-3.00$ source ~/.bash_profile bash: umash: command not found lfs:~$ Up to here I have no idea whether I have committed any mistake because no indication of success. What is "bash: umash: command not found"? Is it a WARNING? B.R. Stephen -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page