On Thursday 27 November 2008 09:29:10 pm DJ Lucas wrote: > Good luck and most importantly, as frustrating as it can be > getting started, have fun. It's all worth it when you see it > boot *your* LFS the first time. > > -- DJ Lucas
Thanks for the welcome and thanks for the help. As Jeremy has pointed out I am using 6.3. I have not found any 6.4 downloads on the mirrors in the US. I do have the 6.4 book to compare the two books in their instruction. I have the binutils extracted. Where should I have extracted the binutils file? I have pointed out my confusion below. The problem I am having is the steps in chapter 5 are not real clear or obvious. I can't always tell if what I am reading is instruction or information or a mix of both without something to make it clear what is the next step from the previous one. Another way to say this is: What I am reading now, is it something I am supposed to be doing, if so where? I did not have this trouble until I got to chapter 5. The first 4 chapters were not confusing. In book 6.3 ch 5.1 Important Before issuing the build instructions for a package, the package should be unpacked as user lfs, and a cd into the created directory should be performed. The build instructions assume that the bash shell is in use. I created $LFS/sources on the hard disk earlier in the book and copied all the source files from the LiveCD to the hard disk. The instructions don't say where to extract the binutils file. But in 5.3.1 it says to create: mkdir -v ../binutils-build cd ../binutils-build Where exactly was I supposed to be when I was supposed to do this step? 5.2 probably has a lot more instruction but it is not clear and is very confusing to follow. The same information (word for word with one sentence changed and a bit of new infomation) is found in almost the same place in book 6.4 and is just as confusing. The information in book 6.3 and 6.4 through the first 3 or 4 sections of chapter 5 seem to be leaving some necessary information out. This forces the reader to figure out what is messed up with the information and then try to put together the correct steps in the correct order to do what is supposed to be done. It sure would help if this chapter was made a lot more clear by adding some more information. At some point in the future after I know what I am doing with building my own OS from the book I will be glad to help make the confusing steps easier to see and understand. I use to teach 3D CAD software to machine designers and engineers. I had to write my own class instructions and exercises. -- Stealth -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
