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.
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