Hi Jim, Tks for your advice.
- snip - > You have to change your permissions as the root > user, once you do that > everything will work the way it should. I tried following steps before posting [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]$ su - Password: (entered host FC3 root password) [EMAIL PROTECTED] ~]# su - lfs lfs:~$ echo $LFS /mnt/lfs lfs:~$ mkdir ../binuils-build mkdir: cannot create directory `../binuils-build': Permission denied lfs:~$ su Password: (entered LFS root password) su: incorrect password lfs:~$ su - Password: (entered LFS root password) su: incorrect password lfs:~$ su Password: (entered host FC3 password) root:/home/lfs# At this point I hesitated to proceed. Whether it referred to host FC3 /home/lfs Because I found # ls -al /home/lfs/ total 36 drwx------ 2 lfs lfs 4096 Jun 29 13:17 . drwxr-xr-x 6 root root 4096 Jun 28 17:13 .. -rw------- 1 lfs lfs 622 Jun 29 13:17 .bash_history -rw-r--r-- 1 lfs lfs 59 Jun 28 18:37 .bash_profile -rw-r--r-- 1 lfs lfs 96 Jun 28 23:27 .bashrc There was a directory /home/lfs created on the host FC3 with 3 hidden files there, namely; .bash_history .bash_profile .bashrc B.R. Stephen -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
