I'd still like to know which Nano CPU you have and how much RAM. There are things that can be done.
> Sorry, no more room on disk! I made 4 primary partitions (should have > made an extended one, shouldn't I!). I could rearrange everything > using fsarchiver or something but frankly, I don't fancy all the hard > work. Maybe one day... "No more room on the disk" is WAY different than "There is room, but I should have partitioned it differently." The question IS, is there and where is there room? If there is room, in particular on your partition 4 that could/should have been an extended and you want to do this without the help of another drive, e.g. USB thumb drive: 1) tarball the 4th partition FS, if the resulting tarball is too big for any of the first three, depending on whether there is is room to tarball it in itself, you can: a) tarball it in chunks of directories and distribute those tarballs across the other 3 partitions, or b) use "split" to cut the 4th partition's tarball into pieces that can temporarily reside on the other three. 2) fdisk the drive, delete the now sacrificable 4th partition as a primary, reallocate it as an extended, and create a 5th logical partition, and more. 3) format a FS on the 5th partition, and restore the tarball--use "cat" to put the pieces back together if you had to use "split". Normally how I partition a development system drive is make from a few to several ~20GB partitions, 1-3 & 6-(n-1) (5 is a swap partition) and a "large" last partition for a "storage heap". And I never use GPT--I can't predict how I may need to get to them in the future! > The point is that this is not the first LFS I've made on this Samsung. > My chroot host is LFS7.8, which I built completely from scratch, > including the chapter 5 toolkit. The build host for that was NuTyX > (thank you, Thierry!). Some of the builds took a long time but it all > went smoothly with no segfaults or other untoward events. It's > interesting to see the differences when doing it this way. (So I ain't buying an "inexperienced" argument. ;-) ) But the point is that Linux development keeps moving the prereqs. My development on my mini-ITX Via "Esther" 1GHz C7 (Pentium-3 equivalent) systems is going to stay at a (B)LFS-6.6 level with minor updates, e.g. OpenSSL, etc. The hardware just won't support much more without getting way bogged down. > Not all BIOSES support GPT. My old PC (2007) is still using a BIOS and > does not support GPT I guess I never use GPT because: 1) in a rescue situation I might have to use something that doesn't have that support, and 2) most drives have a few to several versions of my own LFS build versions and some of those, which I could use straight away, don't gave GPT support. > And in any case, there's no way I could do that. I'm not a geek, I'm > an old woman, and quite hopeless with my hands; I break everything I OH, that's not an argument that will fly in IT! Let me introduce you to Rear Adm. Grace Murray Hopper, "Amazing Grace". (The Navy kept trying to retire her, but they could never make it stick.) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Grace_Hopper > touch. I think I have apraxia. I once wrecked a motherboard just by > trying to put in a new battery. A hard drive would be suicidal. And > this is a laptop, remember. I know nothing at all about the insides of > laptops. Agreed, but not necessary! See above. > My main computer is my trusty HP desktop. The Samsung is more > of a toy. Good. Playing with toys is a great way to learn. My Via Esthers are "toys". Their mini-ITX boards are in little cases about the size of a large-ish dictionary. Not going to quit suggesting copying a LFS you made on your HP to the laptop, and using a chroot to get in and rebuild the kernel to accomodate, would be a good thing to play around with! -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - The professional email service -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
