On 06/28/14 22:33, logical american wrote:
To all:
Here are some things I noticed while currently following v7.5 of the LFS
book
1. In the Chapter 3.1 Introduction for creating the LFS partition, I
actually
was able to successfully do this as an original logged-in usr on
openSuse v13.1 by
running the Partition editor inside Yast while running under the live
openSuse v13.1 KDE Desktop dvd which I had to download and iso image burn,
and then reboot to, in order to avoid problems with mount setting up on
the original /sda drive as / which stopped everything as the partition
editor will
not work on a mounted partition (well it will, but chaos can result)
After coming up under live KDE desktop, I could then access all 3 hard
drives and partition them at will (and my own peril)
The partition editor both created the partition and formatted the filesystem
as ext4, and I choose my 3rd drive just to be safe on both.
However when it came time to actually create directories, I was forced to
use root privileges to do so, since the partition editor had created
everything as root owner and group.
So my first question?
Should creating the lfs user and lfs group be done before doing any
work on creating work spaces on the hard drive?
I don't understand this question. I'm also not sure why you need to
specify that you had to be root when creating the first few directories,
since the book itself tells you to be root for those.
2. After creating the lfs user and lfs group, and setting up the bash
environment, I used the following commands on the $LFS partition.
%chown -R lfs sources
%chown -R lfs tools
%chgrp -R lfs sources
%chgrp -R lfs tools
The book's instructions to chown $LFS/sources and $LFS/tools to the lfs
user are all that's needed - using chgrp won't hurt, but it's not necessary.
Running
%ls -adl *
showed what I expected to see: (plus also all nested subdirectories and
files)
drwx------ 2 root root 16384 Jun 28 10:54 lost+found
drwxrwxrwt 3 lfs lfs 4096 Jun 28 18:38 sources
drwxr-xr-x 2 lfs lfs 4096 Jun 28 18:46 tools
(The lost+found folder came from the partition editor operations)
3. I am now stopped at Section 5.3 General Compilation Instructions because
the assumed CLI commands do NOT match
%which bash
/bin/bash
%which sh
/bin/sh
%which gawk
/bin/gawk
%which bison
which: no bison in (/tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin)
I am on openSuse which uses Yast, not bison or yacc. Does bison need to
be installed? I assume that the "sh" is set incorrectly also, although
syntactically it is correct.
- Randall
Then you've missed a page. See the "Host System Requirements" page in
the prefix. It seems you are overlooking many parts of the book, such as
the text that specifies creating some directories as root. It is very
important to read *all* of the text, not just the commands.
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