On vr, 2011-07-22 at 05:11 -0700, Ashutosh Narayan wrote:
> Hi Andrew,
>
> Thanks for your quick response.
> Well, I am using lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2160.iso to boot off from. This the
> latest iso I got from the website. And it contains official LFS-6.3 book
> which I am referring to. Am I using the correct one ? I am doing so on a
> virtual machine.
>
What virtualisation are you using? I know you can suspend VMWare or
VirtualBox images from the VM-manager. That way the VM-client does not
need to do it's own suspending (the VM-server just freezes the client)
and will continue exactly from the point where is was suspended, you
could suspend in mid-compilation if you want to (i'd not try that
though, just to avoid any possibly weird problems).
> Second, I have created two partitions : /dev/sda1 ( swap) and /dev/sda2 (
> root ).
> I remember following the step to mount /dev/sda2 on $LFS ( /mnt/lfs ). Yes, I
> have not written anything on it though. On the next reboot the directory (
> /mnt/lfs/{tools,sources} itself are not visible.
> I was supposed to start from here. But see no directories inside /mnt after
> the next reboot.
>
> I think my problem is yet not solved. Suggestions ?
>
> Thanks,
>
> ~ Ashutosh
>
>
> --- On Fri, 7/22/11, Andrew Benton <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> From: Andrew Benton <[email protected]>
> Subject: Re: Break between the builds
> To: [email protected]
> Date: Friday, July 22, 2011, 5:12 PM
>
> On Fri, 22 Jul 2011 02:37:16 -0700 (PDT)
> Ashutosh Narayan <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> > I am doing LFS for the second time but this time I do not wish to keep my
> > computer awake for days until I finish building LFS.
> > I have been following LFS book version 6.3 ; done till section 4.4.
>
> LFS-6.3 is very old. Why don't you try a more recent version, 6.8
>
> > I want my computer to rest now and wish to resume next time from where I
> > have left.
> > I found that if I pass the following at the boot option :
> > linux LANG=en_US.UTF-8 TZ=Asia/Calcutta resume=/dev/sda1
> > where /dev/sda1 is swap partition ; it should resume but it DID NOT.
> > I had to redo till section 4.4
>
> If you've mounted a partition of your hard drive at /mnt/lfs then any
> files installed there should be written to the disk and will still be
> there when you remount the partition. Perhaps you booted from a live cd
> and didn't mount a partition at /mnt/lfs? That would explain why it
> disappeared when you rebooted.
>
> > Can someone suggest how can I achieve this,
> > so that I can take break between the builds ?
>
> If you remount the partition, how to carry on depends on where you were
> up to. If you're still compiling the temporary tools then you should
> just need to su - lfs and then carry on from where you left off. In
> chroot you need to remount the kernel file systems before you chroot.
> And if you're chrooting after you've installed bash you can change the
> chroot command so it uses /bin/bash not /tools/bin/bash. I've probably
> forgotten something, somebody correct me.
>
> Andy
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