Dan McGhee wrote: > Since my adventures of the other day, something, and I don't remember > precisely what it was--maybe I just wanted to shoot glibc, I started > from scratch--no pun intended. But I didn't reformat the hard drive > partition. I wanted to start just from building, but realized that when > I deleted /tools, I needed to do more than jump in and go. > > My thinking is leading me to wipe out the partition and start again. My > hunch, and that's all it is--no data, says that the culprit is the host > system. Based on all the reasons why I hate distros and windoze, I'm > leaning that way. > > I know, even using hunches, that troubleshooting is a process of > elimination. I don't know what to eliminate first. I do know that I can > `source .bashrc` for the lfs user in order to get the environment I want. > > An easier method is if someone has a remastered LiveCD later than 6.3. > I've never had a problem with a build using that LiveCD. > > What do you think of my logic? Do you see other alternatives? If not, > what would you choose from what I've said?
Starting over is a good option. If you have an extra 10G for a new partition, why not try jhalfs? You could then do some comparisons between that you did manually and the automated build if you wanted. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
