On Thu, Dec 30, 2010 at 11:02:34PM -0500, Blake Morgan wrote: > "startx" did work, but due to the advantages building off a a different > distro offer, I'm going to try building off of Ubuntu 10.10 Desktop. It's > more up-to-date, and I personally want to be sure I'm building off of a > Debian based distro.
You like pain ? But seriously, please make sure you read section vii of the prologue/preface (Host System Requirements:). Try the version-check.sh script. At a minimum you will probably need to fix up the /bin/sh symlink to point to bash, and the /usr/bin/awk symlink to gawk. You might need to add some more packages to what is already installed (I think the name is something like 'compilation essentials') so that you can actually compile programs. I also recommend that you take time out to build a vanilla kernel (i.e. from kernel.org) which you can boot, and which meets your requirements for whatever you use (e.g. sound, networking, filesystems), -without- using an initrd. Distros use initrds, we don't. You can then use the .config or /proc/config.gz when you build the kernel for your completed LFS system. Have fun! 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
