> From [email protected] Mon Aug 4 11:02:38 2014 > Date: Mon, 04 Aug 2014 11:01:24 +0100 > From: [email protected] (akhiezer) > To: LFS Support List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Please, teach me how to fix problems. > > > From [email protected] Mon Aug 4 10:39:27 2014 > > From: Michael Havens <[email protected]> > > Date: Mon, 4 Aug 2014 02:41:03 -0700 > > To: LFS Support List <[email protected]> > > Subject: Re: [lfs-support] Please, teach me how to fix problems. > > > . > . > > > > > > > > > > You're still not answering the simple direct question: what is the > > > > > full > > > > > path of the directory to which you backed up ch.5 toolchain - the > > > backup > > > > > that you did at end of ch.5 immediately before any starting of ch.6 . > > > > > Saying > > > > > "I put the backup of tools in / " is not answering the question - at > > > least, > > > > > not precisely and unambiguously enough. > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > The backup that you did yesterday, is you say in '/temptools/7.5tools' > > > : > > > > > so you've got '/temptools/7.5tools/sources' and > > > > > '/temptools/7.5tools/tools', > > > > > that you backed up yesterday. That's great (although I note it's > > > seemingly > > > > > different from the 'lfs.backups' backup dir that you were talking > > > > > about > > > > > yesterday). Now, what is the equivalent info for the earlier ch.5 > > > backup? > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > I put it in / - the root directory yesterday. > > > . > > > . > > > > > > > > > > > > > What is the name of the directory, in/under '/' ? > > > > > > > > > akh > > > > > > > > > > > > there is nothing under / . > > > > > Taking that statement at face value: if there's nothing under '/' then you > have no (normal) host-os; and so the machine would likely not be working > at all. > > > Given the fact that you used chroot a few posts back, and how you were > using it, I'm wondering if you perhaps have used it again and are listing > the contents of the chroot dir (e.g. $LFS == /mnt/lfs), and are not seeing > anything under the chroot directory. If that chroot directory is $LFS == > /mnt/lfs and you really do have nothing under there, then that has changed > since yesterday, and begs the question: have you been deleting or moving > stuff. > > > But in any event, it is not established clearly that you have a > ch.5-toolchain backup. > > > Therefore it is not established that you can resume from end of chapter 5. > > > Therefore your best bet is to start the book afresh. > > > Good luck with that. Bear in mind the knowledge that you have added from > the recent part-build. Also, if you are showing signs of systematically > not following the book, then folks are, reasonably, very likely to just > keep pointing you back at the book: 'Book Good, Follow Book'. > >
Just to perhaps clarify: from what you said, and the command-outputs that you gave, you at some point have had: /mnt/lfs/lfs.backups/ and /lfs.backups/ And you then moved at least one of them to be under /home and so to become: /home/lfs.backups/ Now you're additionally talking about: /temptools/7.5tools/ One of the above dirs may be the ch.5-toolchain-backup that you want: going by the name, of course, it may be '/temptools/7.5tools/'; but it's still not at all clear. If you *know* that you have got a proper ch.5-toolchain-backup, and you *know* that there is now nothing under /mnt/lfs that you want to keep, then empty out the contents of /mnt/lfs/ , and then restore the ch.5-toolchain-backup's 'tools' directory to be /mnt/lfs/tools , then goto top of 'Changing Ownership' page at end of ch.5, and resume from there. If that preceding paragraph is not clear, then I guess either someone else explain it better/differently, &/or just start book afresh. Overall, such a situation can normally very likely still be un-tangled and quite readily from this point: but if that aforenoted para is not clear, then I think it'd be not an appropriate approach here. Hence the pointing to the fallback of just starting the book afresh. hth, akh -- -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
