Howdy, I've done a major reset by giving up on installing an LFS system on my old 32-bit computer, and am now installing it on a new 64-bit system. The new system now has Fedora as the host system. It's installed on /dev/sdb and I want to put LFS on a blank 256G SSD -- /dev/sda.
In trying to format /dev/sda I'm running into a conceptual problem. I partition the disk into: /dev/sda1 for /boot /dev/sda2 Extended partition /dev/sda5 swap /dev/sda6 for / /dev/sda7 for /usr and so forth. This is following the suggestions in the LFS book, section 2.2.1.3. When I go to section 2.3 to create a file system "on the partition", the book says: ################ To create an ext3 file system on the LFS partition, run the following: mke2fs -jv /dev/<xxx> Replace <xxx> with the name of the LFS partition (hda5 in our previous example). ################ What should "<xxx>" be in the above example? I'm confused because the book speaks of "THE" LFS partition, as if there were just one, but there are obviously a number of partitions. Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
