Hello all Von: Ken Moffat <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> On Mon, Feb 11, 2008 at 11:16:08PM +0100, Steven Locher wrote: > > > > It is not for admins, but there is a chapter (2 weeks) reserved for > > that. My idea is to get the basic system going during those 2 weeks. > > ... > > That is exactly what I want to know. Is 2 weeks @ 4h are enough? > > Probably not. I build from scripts, and I understand how my > scripts work (mostly!), so some of my builds are a straight > run-through. On my fastest box, (athlon64 4000+, raptor disk) > 4 or 5 hours is ample to get a bootable 32-bit system with gdb, > strace, and a few other bells and whistles. The things that really > take the time are the toolchain tests, basically all recent > toolchains take for ever. Your vmware host is unknown territory > for me. Some people have faster machines, I suppose, others are > slower. Soon I can give you the figures for the VMware virtual machine. Don't expect wonders though, it all runs on a 2 year old laptop 1 GB RAM in total, the VM got 256 MB (that was the default value forgot to check). Now my question, which tests are mandatory? You can guess why I'm asking ;-( Steve > > As to looking at the test results, and trying to work out what they > are telling you... There's a lot of variability - some packages > give you a nice bottom line, like "all 1 tests passed" after running > a number of tests, some like 'make' are very easy to understand, > some will fail as soon as a test fails (coreutils-6.10), some will > silently skip tests in some circumstances. > > You also have to consider what happens if^H^Hwhen something goes > wrong (e.g. students who omit or mis-key something). If you've > built the book a few times, and followed the list, you will > occasionally have a good idea about what has gone wrong. Other > times, people get completely new problems, and I suspect that > building on vmware might fall into that category. > > ĸen > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- Psssst! Schon vom neuen GMX MultiMessenger gehört? Der kann`s mit allen: http://www.gmx.net/de/go/multimessenger -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
