Georgina Joyce wrote: > Hi > > Well I thought I'd have a go at remastering the live CD. After checking from > the SVN repository, the build exited on the man-pages package with a 404 > error. I looked through the material but could not see where the url was > stated. As I don't understand how they are extracted from the book.
They are not extracted from the book, but updated manually. Please see packages/man-pages/Makefile. It contains this: NM= man-pages VRS= 2.63 DIR= $(NM)-$(VRS) FILE= $(DIR).tar.bz2 URL-$(FILE)= http://www.kernel.org/pub/linux/docs/manpages/Archive/$(FILE) SHA-$(FILE)= 025d341ad9d197bd16108cbe80182c1c23369f58 However, this cannot give a 404 error. > I found the remastering guide so decided to follow the guide. This is the wrong guide for you. You want to build the CD from sources, but according to modified instructions. The guide is about altering the already-downloaded binary CD. Your task can be done by editing the CD Makefiles. > My first concern is: > > The guide is for versions 6.2.x whereas, I've downloaded a 6.3 version, does > this matter? > Yes. Unfortunately, there is no such guide for 6.3. It will appear soon, though. > I've mounted my extracted root.ext2 file chroot-ed and installed the extra > packages required. Now I need to do the initramfs thing. I assumed that > this step required being undertaken within the chroot-ed environment. While > deleting the stated line in the Makefile, I noticed that it also referred to > chroot using varibles used in the SVN scripts for building from source. So I > removed these lines too. When I run make, I get a complaint that it can't > find libdevmapper. I looked on google and found a userspace tool and > wondered if I needed to install this too? > > http://ftp.twaren.net/Unix/Sourceware/dm/ > Device mapper is built later by the normal build process. -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
