On 12/29/18, Kent Cooper <[email protected]> wrote: > LOL thanks Paul, I'll keep going at it for sure! Just need to take a > break every few hours or else I'll end up in an early grave from stress > ha ha! :P > > Got past the main errors that i was continually facing by trying out > ALFS instead. I know it's not recommended to try it before achieving > your first successful LFS build, but I thought "what the heck, all I > stand to lose is ANOTHER day of my precious life" LOL. > > I managed to get up to Chapter 5.12 (installing Expect into /tools) with > ALFS before I had to get some shut eye, then decided upon reboot the > next day that I might try finishing things off manually again. And what > do you know: it actually worked! Well at least up until Chapter 6.9 > (installing glibc in chroot), where the compilation and tests took so > long to execute that they ate all my RAM and forced the VM to crash and > burn :-( Now I'm scared to boot it up again, knowing there's a chance > I'll have to start all over again, AGAIN!!
It'd be nice to think the last few seconds of your work were still saved in some state. Is there a way to make a secondary copy that you could test? My question is based on my perception of playing with several various "VM" packages that might not be quite what you're doing in your case. I multiple times over had no problem reusing backup copies BUT... those had not crashed and burned, not that I can remember, anyway. :) > But despite the constant frustration and the fact that I really have NFC > what I'm doing, I'm really enjoying the LFS project in general! I'll > keep going at it until my laptop spontaneously combusts into a twisted > pile of metal (probably some time next week :P) I had done some things like this (LFS) in bits and pieces going back many years ago while trying to install a local copy of the W3C's HTML validator. Doing this repetitively now while watching each package build on top of others helps it make a whole lot more sense. That's one of the reasons I try to slip in a plug for LFS where appropriate. This project offers good Linux core newbie knowledge that's applicable to so many other distributions even if users only make it through that Chapter 5. Chapter 5 is where I ended my first effort at because my hardware did literally *burn*. My desktop PC's power supply kicked the bucket so I'm on an ASUS 1015px with 1GB memory right now. I've been thinking about trying it anyway just to see how far it gets BUT... my current package currency is several months behind... on dialup. It's going to take "a little bit of time" to catch back up to speed to Step One: Download Those Packages. :)) Cindy :) * runs with birdseed * -- 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
