I've been prepping an LFS 6.1.1 build using a Knoppix 3.7 Live CD as
the host and I'd like to note a couple of glitches.
The host disk was completely clean: no OS or partition table. I
booted Knoppix with "boot: knoppix26 2" to get a Linux 2.6.9 kernel
and a root command line.
Chapter 2.3:
"mkswap -v <device>" reports "mkswap: warning: truncating swap area to
113890kB". From the man page I guess this means it's making an
version 0 swap area. I ditched the -v flag and ran "mkswap <device>"
instead.
I also had to run "swapon <device>" to activate the new swap area.
Obvious, but why not say it explicitly?
BTW, if you go with the old-style swap area from "mkswap -v" then
swapon complains "version 0 swap is no longer supported"! So you
*must* change the mkswap command as above.
Chapter 4.3:
"groupadd lfs" complains "groupadd: unable to read the group shadow
file"! I don't understand this at all but it appears to be because
/etc/gshadow is a symbolic link to /KNOPPIX/etc/gshadow . This seems
anomalous because none of /etc/{passwd,shadow,group} is a symbolic
link.
If I replace /etc/gshadow with a copy of /KNOPPIX/etc/gshadow then
it's OK. (NB: I also ran " chown root:shadow /etc/gshadow ; chmod 640
/etc/gshadow " .)
Hope this helps. I've been a happy LFS 4.1 user for a few years now
and I'm looking forward to my new LFS 6.1.1 system!
Cheers,
Jeremy Henty
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