Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy
Josh wrote: hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline if something goes wrong. The next task at hand is to figure out how to tweak the windows boot.ini file to default boot my LFS system. After that I can modify any and all linux configuration files to suit my tastes. Once I've accomplished that, it's on to the BLFS book. :-D To be honest, it's probably easier to get grub to boot windows than it would be to get windows to boot your LFS system. Google for it. :) Once you find the command to do it in grub you can test it from your rescue disk. Once you've tested it and are happy with the results, you can then install grub to the MBR of hda. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: problem with fixed font on X
2006/1/30, Alan Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED]: here's a couple of pointers that may (or may not) help... Did you actually configure your fonts as explained in the subsequent sections of the book Chapters 25 and 26? Did I miss something? Sorry - I meant the last two sections of Chapter 25 and not 26 - My fault! There is an important section on setting up your TrueType fonts. wellmy fault too :( I could work it out! It seems that I compiled fonts /after/ X! Sorry, and thanks for your great help! Now, to compile xfce!!! :) Are your fonts installed in the paths that Xorg is looking? (Or are they in /usr/share/fonts) mmm let's see: [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# ls -a /usr/share/fonts ls: /usr/share/fonts: No existe el fichero o el directorio [EMAIL PROTECTED]:/# any advice? recompile? reinstall? from where? I wouldn't start all over just yet... What versions of (book, xorg, lfs etc are you following?) Where are your fonts? Can you locate them and do they match the defaults in the xorg.conf? Alan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- Ricardo A.Frydman Consultor en sistemas Open Source http://www.eureka-linux.com.ar -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
spawnig too fast
hi, upon rebooting after completing the book, got the following screen lines INIT Id 1 respawning too fase: disable for 5 minutes INIT Id 2 respawning too fase: disable for 5 minutes - similarly up to INIT Id 6 respawning too fase: disable for 5 minutes no more processes left in this run level and stuck there.. what could have been incorrect. please advise. thanks -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
gkd-pixbuf-config ?
Hi all I've got problems installing a software that require GTK+1. It complains it doesn't find gdk-pixbuf-config. Indeed, I've not this tool. How do I obtain this tool? I installed GTK+2. As required I installed before GLib 2, Imlib2 Then I installed GTK+1 (and GLib 1, Imlib1) I searched googling... I can't find which tarball is responsible for providing this tool. Thanks Luca BTW the software that I'm trying to install is Perl-Gtk, which is required by dvd::rip. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy
--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Von: Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Betreff: first successful boot with GRUB floppy Datum: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:44:16 -0800 (PST) As the title states, I successfully booted my shiny new LFS-6.1.1 system with the aid of the grub rescue disk! You should've seen the grin on my face when it happened... priceless. It's a by the book system with almost no variations except for booting. /boot is hdb1, swap is hdb2, and / is hdb3. There were no kernel panics or any other noticeable errors for the debut. Hi Josh I used thos procedure with lilo for a long time. See it as basic information how it could be done. I installed grub only one time so far and it worked for me - but I'm not too familiar with grub's way of naming partitions. (I think /dev/hdb5 corresponds to (hd1,4)) what i did was the following: (changing the commands from section 8.4 slightly) 1. start grub 2. run the root command (for example: root (hd1,4)) 3. run the setup command - use the same partition as above ( setup (hd1,4) ) this installs the bootsector onto the same partition as your LFS system is installed - your MBR on /dev/hda stays untouched . 4. quit grub then use the following command to write this bootsector into a file dd if=/dev/hdb5 of=/root/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1 copy the file boot.lnx to your windows partition and add a line similar to the following to your boot.ini - section [operating systems] c:\boot.lnx=LFS-6.1.1 and in the section [boot loader] change or add the value for timeout, so can choose which OS you want to boot. [boot loader] timeout=5 that's it disadvanteges of this method 1. you have to rerun the dd ... command every time you compile a new kernel 2. when using NTFS with your WindowsXP you can't write to your C: drive so have to boot your WinXP and use something like explore2fs.exe to read your new boot.lnx from your ext2 partition. hope this helps sorry for my bad english greetings Georg -- DSL-Aktion wegen großer Nachfrage bis 28.2.2006 verlängert: GMX DSL-Flatrate 1 Jahr kostenlos* http://www.gmx.net/de/go/dsl -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: gkd-pixbuf-config ?
Luca Dionisi wrote these words on 01/31/06 08:16 CST: I've got problems installing a software that require GTK+1. It complains it doesn't find gdk-pixbuf-config. Indeed, I've not this tool. How do I obtain this tool? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/gnome/gdkpixbuf.html BTW the software that I'm trying to install is Perl-Gtk, which is required by dvd::rip. If the package you're trying to install is Gtk-Perl-0.7009 then good luck. This package is a mother-f**. Hint: keep running the build until it builds everything. Chances are it won't the first time through. It really sucks. With patience, you can get it installed. This Package used to be in BLFS, but we pulled it out because it would not build properly. There is a switch you can use, --without-guessing, but if you do that I believe it won't build everything required by dvd::rip. Good luck, and have patience. It can be done. :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 08:30:00 up 128 days, 17:54, 3 users, load average: 0.09, 0.26, 0.46 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: spawnig too fast
--- Alan Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are really trying everyone's patience. FAQ i had checked and corrected those entries but upon reboot it still loops there. But its funny thing is that out of 3 HD with numeric prefix in the etc/inittab, those did not had that only one that was built with a PIII-450. hence what is the correct step to take. thanks -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: spawnig too fast
i had checked and corrected those entries but upon reboot it still loops there. But its funny thing is that out of 3 HD with numeric prefix in the etc/inittab, those did not had that only one that was built with a PIII-450. hence what is the correct step to take. thanks 3 HD's with numeric prefix in /etc/inittab ??? what does that mean, they did not have the one build with a Piii-450 ? inittab values using the machines arch ??? what the heck are you talking about http://redora.redhat.com http://www.debian.org http://www.suse.com http://www.ubuntu.com pick one - use it - learn ! Matt -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: spawnig too fast
Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: http://redora.redhat.com It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. What was its name, Astro? :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 09:30:00 up 128 days, 18:54, 3 users, load average: 0.12, 0.26, 0.52 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: spawnig too fast
Randy McMurchy wrote: Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: http://redora.redhat.com It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. What was its name, Astro? :-) Its the new distro - keep up Randy, don't you know anything -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: spawnig too fast
Randy McMurchy wrote: Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: http://redora.redhat.com It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. What was its name, Astro? :-) LOL -- Shane Shields Registered LFS Compiler: 7582 To drink the WINE of success you must first seek the sayings of source Anyone sending unwanted advertising e-mail to this address will be charged $25 for network traffic and computing time. By extracting my address from this message or its header, you agree to these terms. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: spawnig too fast
Randy McMurchy wrote: Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: http://redora.redhat.com It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. What was its name, Astro? :-) Ruh roh. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: spawnig too fast
--- Matt Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3 HD's with numeric prefix in /etc/inittab ??? what does that mean, i worked throughout with 3 PCs thus have 3 HDD, and each have been done according to the book, but as at now realised the typo error etered as for 6.56.2 cofiguring Sysvinit, the groupo of 7 lines for the rc 0 thru 6, the leftonst character, x0 through x6 where x was entered a numeric one which was incorrect. my feedback earlier was meant to be informative and not a challenge, that how come HD A B no problem but only C. The respawning should happen to all. ok then after correcting the entries of the prefix to lowerCase L in HD-C and reboot, the respawning still happens. another point to make sure is there a spacing in the print '\033(K' between the 3 and the (. and if we spaced it does that contribute to that respawning case. thanks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
syslog
hi, i got another situation here that the following messages appeared in the boot process :- starting system log daemon ... nice: syslogd: no such file or directory starting kernel log daemon nice: klogd: no such file or directoty. we had checked and the /etc/syslog.conf has been coded and even after booting, checked that file is there. please advise. thanks -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: syslog
mrdaniel wrote: hi, i got another situation here that the following messages appeared in the boot process :- starting system log daemon ... nice: syslogd: no such file or directory starting kernel log daemon nice: klogd: no such file or directoty. we had checked and the /etc/syslog.conf has been coded and even after booting, checked that file is there. Before you ask another question here, please list what you steps have taken to find the answer to this problem yourself. Before *ever* you post a request for help here, you should have at least used Google to search for an answer. As you may have noticed, your requests for support aren't received too well as it appears that you're not *carefully* following the book, and you're not searching for the answer yourself. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: spawnig too fast
:) On 1/31/06, Matt Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://redora.redhat.com http://www.debian.org http://www.suse.com http://www.ubuntu.com Why not www.microsoft.com and try to ask for support to them? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy
On 1/30/06, Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline if something goes wrong. The next task at hand is to figure out how to tweak the windows boot.ini file to default boot my LFS system. After that I can modify any and all linux configuration files to suit my tastes. Once I've accomplished that, it's on to the BLFS book. :-D Congrats, Josh. The first one is the toughest. It get's infinitely easier from here on out. I've been doing the dual-boot thing with XP for about a year now. Getting boot.ini sounds like an interesting exercise, but going with GRUB will be much easier. GRUB is intentionally built to handle many types of systems, while Windows, well... I can say that you shouldn't be scared to overwrite the MBR. I was scared, too, but it turns out it's not dangerous. All you need to rewrite the MBR with the XP bootloader is the XP CD. That's in the highly unlikely event that you decide that linux is not for you and you want to go back to just Windows. If you want to email me off-list about tips for dual-booting with Windows, feel free to. This probably isn't the best forum to discuss it, though. My email address should be in the header of this message. -- Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: syslog
--- Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before you ask another question here, please list what you steps have taken to find the answer to this problem yourself. Before *ever* you post a request for help here, you should have at least used Google to search for an answer. As you may have noticed, your requests for support aren't received too well as it appears that you're not *carefully* following the book, and you're not searching for the answer yourself. your point is taken seriously and in fact tried over more than 15 times building LFS more than 3 weeks with daily about 12 hours and even scrificing our Chinese Lunar New Year for the urge to do one at least perfect LFS. but till now not there yet. If you expert could lend a hand LFS sould be up and running in perfection I believe in less than a normal working week. Doing searches elsewhere only strengthen the linux knowledge base but rolling out LFS or even BLFS will be longer and so costlier in term of man hour. thus as you can see, I am not trying to get spoon-fed, but hope that lfs-support will be supportive and thus be productive. But anyway, we had many errors trying to quicken the build process and stress over-drived. But like others if we can chat a little bit productivity will rise. I had seen one new comer who spoke of bicycle and such and is good humor. so let it be me. If we can get LFS and beyond going in under one week, its wonderful. thanks and regards. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: syslog
On 1/31/06, mrdaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chinese Lunar New Year for the urge to do one at least perfect LFS. but till now not there yet. If you expert could lend a hand LFS sould be up and running in perfection I believe in less than a normal working week. Doing searches elsewhere only strengthen the linux knowledge base but rolling out LFS or even BLFS will be longer and so costlier in term of man hour. thus as you can see, I am not trying to get spoon-fed, but hope that lfs-support will be supportive and thus be productive. Then, you don't need LFS. You can live easily and *productively* with any recent linux distro. Really. Try and you'll see. Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: syslog
--- Luca Dionisi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, you don't need LFS. You can live easily and *productively* with any recent linux distro. Really. Try and you'll see. ok, that's equivalent to the notion of mastering an art it may take as long as 3 years before one can come down from the mountain to deliver in the real world. thanks -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: syslog
On 1/31/06, mrdaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, that's equivalent to the notion of mastering an art it may take as long as 3 years before one can come down from the mountain to deliver in the real world. IMHO 3 years is too much, one week is too few. Regards Luca -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: syslog
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mrdaniel wrote: --- Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before you ask another question here, please list what you steps have taken to find the answer to this problem yourself. Before *ever* you post a request for help here, you should have at least used Google to search for an answer. As you may have noticed, your requests for support aren't received too well as it appears that you're not *carefully* following the book, and you're not searching for the answer yourself. Mr Daniel: I am a non-English speaker too. I think that LFS is not for everyone, I hope you understand what I mean You need some basic requirements to get it succesfully working: + some linux basis + some mailing-list experience + some google, HOWTOs, installing packages + some technical English at least read write your point is taken seriously and in fact tried over more than 15 times building LFS more than 3 weeks with daily about 12 hours and even scrificing our Chinese Lunar New Year for the urge to do one at least perfect LFS. but till now not there yet. if it says something to you, I tried LFS for the first time about 2 years ago and I just begin to /read/ it and I discovered it wasn't the time for me to experience it. (For this time I have had +3 yr experience with Linux systems) If you expert could lend a hand LFS sould be up and running in perfection I believe in less than a normal working week. Doing searches elsewhere only strengthen the linux knowledge base but rolling out LFS or even BLFS will be longer and so costlier in term of man hour. Now, I re-took the challenge a few weeks ago, read the book patiently, and began, also patiently, to build my own LFS. I have had some problems, 3 to be honest: 2 were my fault, and the other a Ubuntu-host related problem. I asked for help both here and in the IRC channel and I found great people givimg me help. Of course they could see I read the book and tried it by myself /before/ asking. Now I have in my laptop a beautifull, small,powerfull and stable linux distro with X home-made. The sensation is very agreable! So my best advice is: be honest with you and ask yourself: + is LFS for me? + is the right time for LFS? thus as you can see, I am not trying to get spoon-fed, but hope that lfs-support will be supportive and thus be productive. But anyway, we had many errors trying to quicken the build process and stress over-drived. But like others if we can chat a little bit productivity will rise. I had seen one new comer who spoke of bicycle and such and is good humor. so let it be me. If we can get LFS and beyond going in under one week, its wonderful. thanks and regards. Best regards, - -- Ricardo A.Frydman Consultor en Tecnología Open Source - Administrador de Sistemas jabber: [EMAIL PROTECTED] - http://www.eureka-linux.com.ar SIP # 1-747-667-9534 -BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE- Version: GnuPG v1.4.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQFD35qDkw12RhFuGy4RAucLAJ9mQQAnRsuRXTyaKvQyvn5iUN7ESACfSY7L l/uSD/m4kKwj1ZAUVrhs968= =UwZS -END PGP SIGNATURE- -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: syslog
mrdaniel wrote: hi, i got another situation here that the following messages appeared in the boot process :- starting system log daemon ... nice: syslogd: no such file or directory starting kernel log daemon nice: klogd: no such file or directoty. we had checked and the /etc/syslog.conf has been coded and even after booting, checked that file is there. please advise. thanks Daniel, I'm going to go out on a limb here. Your constant asking of basic questions and lack of ability to debug problems, is now becoming old. I suggest you build up a basic level of understanding of linux by using one of the distros I suggested earlier. I'll re-list them correcting my typo before Randy is setup on me. http://fedora.redhat.com http://www.debian.org http://www.ubuntu.org http://www.suse.com I don't know why your trying to build 3lfs systems on different harddisks, but being honest with you, please please please use another distro to get a basic understanding of how to use linux before progressing with LFS. Matt -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: syslog
--- Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: probably missing some of the finer points in the book. When you encounter a word or phrase you're not familiar with, how do you work out its meaning? by experimetation. for example the page for untaring had been misunderstood and a new folder was created to unzip the tarballs. later turn around and untar inside the sources because the compilations could not find some files and that took some time because I started off with a slower PC. well its a quicky start and hence those results, but at one point had posted the errata in page 166 section 6.50 Module-Init-Tools-3.1 where one of the optios has been obseleted, namely --strip-path=1 and replace with --with-components=1. That i hope you have noted. anyway, i will strive to get the LFS going. ciao -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: syslog
--- Ricardo Frydman Eureka! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a non-English speaker too. I think that LFS is not for everyone, I hope you understand what I mean You need some basic requirements to get it succesfully working: + some linux basis have improved trying with LFS. thanks for your knid advise and i will strive to reach the X level. regards. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy
hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline if something goes wrong. The next task at hand is to figure out how to tweak the windows boot.ini file to default boot my LFS system. After that I can modify any and all linux configuration files to suit my tastes. Once I've accomplished that, it's on to the BLFS book. :-D Hi Josh, While grub is best suited for booting, the ntbootloader option can come in handy. If you use reinstall windows often like I do(I use just for games), You'll discover windows replaces grub everytime and you have to use rescue disk to get your lfs back. But by using the ntloader you can always have linux when you want it. -- I don't know how much of what I say is true -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: spawnig too fast
@mr.danial I have an advise for you even if the rest of them decide I'm crazy! As you seem to be hell bent over LFS, get the livecd and use jhalfs or nalfs. You don't need much config there and default works fine. Once you get the system up and running, go for blfs and you'll get some package compiling and building experiance. After that you can always go back to building lfs. As an interesting aside, there are two stanford grads. Please do support them and their little project. You see, their names are Larry Page Sergey Brin, and the project is called google. -- ╔╗ ║I don't know how much of what I say is true ║ ╚╝ -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: spawnig too fast
Subhash Chandra wrote: @mr.danial I have an advise for you even if the rest of them decide I'm crazy! As you seem to be hell bent over LFS, get the livecd and use jhalfs or nalfs. You don't need much config there and default works fine. Once you get the system up and running, go for blfs and you'll get some package compiling and building experiance. After that you can always go back to building lfs. I'm not going to mince words...this is the worst advice you can possibly offer an LFS newbie. ALFS is for experienced LFS builders who know what they're doing. If you are not able to build an LFS system yourself then you won't be able to do anything with the system that ALFS builds. Anyone who thinks that ALFS is a substitute for building a system yourself should just be using a precompiled Linux distro (which has been suggested to mrdaniel numerous times). Use that FIRST, then, after you get experience knowing how to use Linux, retry building LFS. As an interesting aside, there are two stanford grads. Please do support them and their little project. You see, their names are Larry Page Sergey Brin, and the project is called google. This IS a good suggestion. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: spawnig too fast
I'm not going to mince words...this is the worst advice you can possibly offer an LFS newbie. I accept -- I don't know how much of what I say is true -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
LCFS Build complete!
Well, I don't see a clfs-support list, and I don't feel confident enough to comment on the book contents, so I'll crow here instead. Let me know if there's a more appropriate place for these discussions. Just finished my 64-bit build on my Dual Opteron! I followed the pure-64 build plan from the 32-bit system that's currently on this box into a spare partition. To reduce agro, I skipped over the grub stuff, just copied the kernel to my existing /boot directory, updated grub's menu with the new kernel and new root and it came up fine. This is primarily for practice/learning until I've an idea how I want my 64-bit desktop to run. Then I plan to use this test-bed as host for building my main desktop over the partitions that currently hold my 32-bit system. I am hoping I can skip all the cross-compile stuff, but use the lessons learned from CLFS to build the 64-bit system from a 64-bit host. Thanks again for your exceptional effort and pain-staking work creating these great documents to guide us in a deeper understanding of Linux. Now I'm going to try building X.org and installing nVidia's drivers. Should be quite interesting in a pure-64 environment, since I understand they both expect 32-bit libs in /lib and 64-bit libs in /lib64. Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy
--- Georg Schinnerl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then use the following command to write this bootsector into a file dd if=/dev/hdb5 of=/root/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1 copy the file boot.lnx to your windows partition and add a line similar to the following to your boot.ini that's how i dual-booted XP and Fedora4. i've done that this time as well, but it's not working. i won't dwell on it, though, as it's off topic for this forum. thank you nonetheless for the advice. Alan Lord wrote: If your BIOS allows you to select which disk to boot from (mine offers a menu at boot time if I press F8) you can install grub on hdb without having to overwrite your windows bootloader which is on hda. Thanks for -reminding- me about this. I hadn't thought to try that. Doing so allowed the grub loader to work its menu magic. So yesterday, I got a glimpse of my linux system booted from a rescue floppy, and today I got to see a GRUB menu for the first time. :-D One thing I noticed in doing this, was that my hard drives were swapped in grub, but not once the LFS Operating System took over. What I mean by that is that where LFS's hda was grub's (hd0) and hdb was grub's (hd1), after I changed the boot priority in my BIOS, hda (the windows drive) was grub's (hd1) and hdb (linux) was (hd0) according to the grub rescue floppy disk. Once I had booted LFS, however, my slave drive was still hdb and my original master drive was still (by process of elimination) hda. I hope I didn't confuse anyone by saying that. I intend to play around with the rescue floppy to figure out exactly what menu commands I need to add to get grub to boot both OS's, and I will probably overwrite the MBR... eventually. Then I'll be FREE! __ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: LCFS Build complete!
Thanx John, we really appreciate the comments. The CLFS list is up as cross-lfs, still awaiting gmane to sync up with it. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
