Kevin, thanks.....ok so let me ask you this question. I have a machine with windows and linux installed on it. I boot directly into the cd. Do I still need to make another partitions for the lfs hda,hab(xxx ,yyy) or will it use the linux partition?
-----Original Message----- From: Kevin Jordan [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, July 18, 2005 2:03 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: 5.3.1. Installation of Binutils On 7/18/05, Coneway, Christopher Darius (Christopher) <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Greetings, I have a few questions concerning leading up to this point and beyond . I'm also an newbie to Linux......but learning :0) I have downloaded and burned the live cd and using it, I have the LFS version 6.1 and downloaded the lived cd image. Everything up to this point I believe is working? But I do have questions: 1)If I boot into the cd, this environment will create what I need to start following the book correct? It will have everything you need to complete the steps in the book. 2) Do I still needed to make those partitions hda5(xxx) and hda?(yyyy), that are listed? Yes, you need to make (at least) two partitions: swap and root. The swap will be where stuff is "swapped" out when memory use becomes too heavy and old pages are written to disk and more frequently needed ones are put in memory. The root partition is where your filesystem hierarchy will be. This will contain all the directories, such as usr, var, sbin, sbin, tmp, etc. Although you can make the data in these folders stored on another partition and mount them into the root filesystem into a directory using the "mount" command. One frequently one that is done with this is the boot partition since it is never really needed after the system is up and if part of the root filesystem becomes corrupted while in use, having boot on another partition can save some headache later. But you can technically have it on the root filesystem withouth making another partition for it. You don't even really need swap (assuming you have enough RAM for what you plan to do), although 1.5-2x your RAM is the usual recommendation, but you can have less, depending on your RAM demands. 3). The cd has all the packages and patches listed in the sources directory. I'm to unzip each package for each step (not all at once, and depending where I at in the book) into that directory (once created) correct? Then run the commands. I hope this is correct?? I have problems in 5.3.1 at the : When doing this command ,I should be in the tools directory correct? mkdir ../binutils-build cd ../binutils-build now the problem: ../binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2/configure --prefix=/tools --disable-nls and I get the error message " No such file or directory. Where should I be while doing this??? Or what did I miss??. I'm logged in as Root, not lfs? Thanks, Chris. Yes, the CD has all the source packages and patches. The start to each section of the book assumes you are in the extracted source directory for the packages. So for binutils, you would be in the binutils source, and so the directories binutils-build and binutls-2.1x.x.x.x should be the in the same directory since mkdir ../binutils-build makes that in the directory one up from the binutils source. I'm not sure if the book really states that point, or if it does, it's not clearly emphasized since this is a very common question. At this point you should be logged in as lfs. -- Kevin Jordan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
