Adrian, What Pete said, however I must have missed the same section as did you.
Being a linux noob, I thought I was following the install doc verbatim. It kind of expects you to understand more than some might. I'm a 25 year computer geek and still struggled with it for the first dozen packages. Then the light bulb went on... On Nov 8, 2008, at 7:09 AM, Peter Dickinson wrote: > I think the problem might be that you are using the incorrect working > directory. You are in /mnt/lfs when you should be in > /mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-2.17 > > The lfs user doesn't have full permissions in /mnt/lfs because that > directory is owned by root. So the error message is caused by the fact > that you (as lfs) are trying to create a new subdirectory under a > directory that lfs doesn't have write permission in. > > But I think the real problem is that you need to untar the binutils > archive into the /mnt/lfs/sources directory. In section 4.3 you'll > have > issued the command: > > chown -v lfs $LFS/sources > > This command makes the lfs user the owner of /mnt/lfs/sources and > allows > you to create subdirectories under it as the lfs user. > > If you copy the binutils-2.17.tar.bz2 file into $LFS/sources and then > untar it there, it will create the binutils-2.17 directory under > /mnt/lfs/sources. Then cd into the new directory, and try issuing the > commands again. That worked for me. > > Section 5.1 of the book has a couple of boxes marked "important" that > relate to this process. > > > > Adrian Fisher wrote: >> Hello all, >> >> I am trying my hand at creating my own LFS installation but seem to >> have >> stumbled across a problem. When I type in: >> >> mkdir -v ../binutils-build >> cd ../binutils-build >> >> >> as directed by the manual I am told >> >> mkdir: cannot create directory './binutils-build': Permission >> denied >> lfs:/mnt/lfs$ >> >> I realise the second line of this message shows the user I am >> logged in >> as and the current working directory but don't know why I cannot >> create >> the directory as I have followed everything to the letter up to >> this point. >> >> What must I do to resolve this? >> >> Thanks in advance, >> >> A. >> > -- > 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
