piper.guy1 wrote: > Hi, > > Started reading and doing what the book says (6.6). Didn't take too > long before I got myself into trouble. :-( > > In " Host system Requirements", the instructions explicitly wants > '/bin/sh' to be pointing to bash. Mine was pointing to dash. So I > endeavoured to change it by deleting the symlink and then create > another symlink to point to bash. However, being a naive newbie all > hell broke loose when I deleted the symlink, and everything was > misbehaving. So, before I realized what I had done I logged out > rebooted and then couldn't log back in anymore.
Yes that's a problem. It's an opportunity to learn. The correct command is: ln -sfv bash /bin/sh The options are -s symbolic link -f remove existing destination file -v verbose > Sooo...before I do something else that I'm not suppose to do, I > thought I'd get advise first. My thinking is that I need to get a > Linux rescue or recovery CD, mount the file system on the hard drive, > and then add a symlink to bash. Make sense or is there an easier way? > > Any recommendations on a rescue disk? Any disk that boots to Linux. Mount the old partition and adjust the path in the ln command for the mount point. For example: # Your installed root partition is /dev/sda2 mount /dev/sda2 /mnt ln -sfv bash /mnt/bin/sh umount /mnt > One more thing. Seeing that this is a very risky thing to be advising > in LFS 6.6, can I suggest that the authour(s) add some caveats around > this instruction? LFS is not intended to teach basic Unix/Linux commands. -- bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
