Hi, I spent the best part of this rainy morning working through the LFS book slowly, step by step, encouraged by three purring cats and my loving wife bringing me coffee occasionally.
I played around a bit with the LiveCD and found it excellent. Booted without problems, edited xorg.conf (for "Modes" and swiss-french keyboard layout), edited setenv.sh (as found in the Hints) and fired up XFCE, since reading the LFS book is more comfortable in Firefox than in Lynx. Working through everything until now went like a charm: huge pat on the developer's shoulders for the excellent docs! I'm currently in Chapter 5, page "Tcl-8.4.9", the one that comes after "Adjusting your Toolchain". Tcl compiled and installed fine (which, according to the book, proves that everything else went fine until now). After installing Tcl, I have a binary /usr/bin/tclsh8.4. Now, the book recommends to create a symlink like this: ln -sv tclsh8.4 /tools/bin/tclsh I'm not exactly sure about this. What am I supposed to create here? A symlink /tools/bin/tclsh pointing to /usr/bin/tclsh8.4? In that case, the command should be issued from within /usr/bin, but the book doesn't state so. I *think* it should be this, e. g. ln -sv /usr/bin/tclsh8.4 /usr/bin/tclsh, but I prefer to ask just to be on the safe side. One more general remark: I do about 1/3 of things without knowing too much what they mean, but there's much (!) to be learnt from the other 2/3. Guess it's like learning a language: put one foot in front of the other, and concentrate on the things you grasp. Ah yes, one other question: is it possible to configure the network otherwise on the LiveCD? I have a small home network, with 192.168.1.1 acting as a gateway. We're on dialup here, and the connection is shared via IP masquerading. How could I attribute a static IP (192.168.1.4), gateway address (192.168.1.1) and nameserver (213.36.80.1) to the system booted via the CD, while deactivating DHCP? Cheers, Niki -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
