Re: Stumbling across the finish line

2010-12-12 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:09:39 -0700 Daryl Lee da...@daryllee.com wrote: But there is a lingering issue. When the new kernel boots, after the swap partition is mounted (or as part of mounting it--I can't really be sure) I get a message saying the file system is mounted and if I continue

Re: Stumbling across the finish line

2010-12-12 Thread Daryl Lee
On 12/12/2010 05:11 AM, Andrew Benton wrote: On Sat, 11 Dec 2010 23:09:39 -0700 Daryl Lee da...@daryllee.com wrote: But there is a lingering issue. When the new kernel boots, after the swap partition is mounted (or as part of mounting it--I can't really be sure) I get a message saying the

Wifi and LFS/BLFS

2010-12-12 Thread Daryl Lee
Now that my laptop is working I want to add support for my Wifi adapter, an Intel/PRO Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] (rev 02), which means rebuilding the kernel with the necessary support. When I run make menuconfig all I can find in the Wireless LAN page are the following: Intel PRO/Wireless 2100

Re: Wifi and LFS/BLFS

2010-12-12 Thread Daryl Lee
On 12/12/2010 08:44 AM, Daryl Lee wrote: Now that my laptop is working I want to add support for my Wifi adapter, an Intel/PRO Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] (rev 02), which means rebuilding the kernel with the necessary support. When I run make menuconfig all I can find in the Wireless LAN page

bzip patch problem

2010-12-12 Thread Robert Mullin
root:/sources# tar xf bzip2-1.0.5.tar.gz root:/sources# cd bzip2-1.0.5 root:/sources/bzip2-1.0.5# patch -np1 -i ../bzip2-1.0.5-install_docs-1.patch patch: Only garbage was found in the patch input. What's gone wrong? I've downloaded the patches anew twice ... no luck. --

Re: bzip patch problem

2010-12-12 Thread Mike Hollis
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:37:33AM -0600, Robert Mullin wrote: root:/sources# tar xf bzip2-1.0.5.tar.gz root:/sources# cd bzip2-1.0.5 root:/sources/bzip2-1.0.5# patch -np1 -i ../bzip2-1.0.5-install_docs-1.patch patch: Only garbage was found in the patch input. What's gone wrong? I've

Re: bzip patch problem

2010-12-12 Thread robert
Mike Hollis wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 11:37:33AM -0600, Robert Mullin wrote: root:/sources# tar xf bzip2-1.0.5.tar.gz root:/sources# cd bzip2-1.0.5 root:/sources/bzip2-1.0.5# patch -np1 -i ../bzip2-1.0.5-install_docs-1.patch patch: Only garbage was found in the patch input. What's

Re: Wifi and LFS/BLFS

2010-12-12 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Daryl Lee da...@daryllee.com wrote: On 12/12/2010 08:44 AM, Daryl Lee wrote: Now that my laptop is working I want to add support for my Wifi adapter, an Intel/PRO Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] (rev 02), which means rebuilding the kernel with the necessary support.  

Re: bzip patch problem

2010-12-12 Thread Neal Murphy
On Sunday 12 December 2010 17:03:04 Randy McMurchy wrote: robert wrote these words on 12/12/10 12:43 CST: Suddenly, I suspected that to be the problem ... maybe not. In any case, I've one terminal and only one tab ... chroot. Things seem to be going swimmingly ... until this -npl -Npl

Re: bzip patch problem

2010-12-12 Thread robert
Randy McMurchy wrote: robert wrote these words on 12/12/10 12:43 CST: Suddenly, I suspected that to be the problem ... maybe not. In any case, I've one terminal and only one tab ... chroot. Things seem to be going swimmingly ... until this -npl -Npl moment. And just for completeness, you

new os

2010-12-12 Thread robert
No small sense of accomplishment attaches to having finished up this project. Of course, this cannot be anywhere near as gratifying as having actually put together this little project. Many people no doubt involved. A warm gracias merci beaucoup danke to all of you. As I believe I mentioned

Re: new os

2010-12-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
robert wrote these words on 12/12/10 16:22 CST: Any precautionary notes before I light out for the wilderness? Why reinvent the wheel? An automated system to build LFS already exists! Instead of simply doing boring work adding together the commands, why not use your new Linux system to do

Re: new os

2010-12-12 Thread robert
Randy McMurchy wrote: robert wrote these words on 12/12/10 16:22 CST: Any precautionary notes before I light out for the wilderness? Why reinvent the wheel? An automated system to build LFS already exists! Instead of simply doing boring work adding together the commands, why not use your

Re: new os

2010-12-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 04:22:45PM -0600, robert wrote: I believe now, I'm going to concatenate all my commands (or at least as many as should reasonably be concatenated) with and then try to get it to build overnight. Any precautionary notes before I light out for the wilderness?

Re: Wifi and LFS/BLFS

2010-12-12 Thread Daryl Lee
On 12/12/2010 12:16 PM, Stuart Stegall wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Daryl Lee da...@daryllee.com wrote: On 12/12/2010 08:44 AM, Daryl Lee wrote: Now that my laptop is working I want to add support for my Wifi adapter, an Intel/PRO Wireless 3945ABG [Golan] (rev 02), which means

Re: Wifi and LFS/BLFS

2010-12-12 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 5:37 PM, Daryl Lee da...@daryllee.com wrote: On 12/12/2010 12:16 PM, Stuart Stegall wrote: On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 9:48 AM, Daryl Lee da...@daryllee.com wrote: On 12/12/2010 08:44 AM, Daryl Lee wrote: Now that my laptop is working I want to add support for my Wifi

Re: new os

2010-12-12 Thread robert
Ken Moffat wrote: Two thoughts (as someone who creates his own scripts to do this). First, give some thought to catching error messages (e.g. by logging stderr), whilst remembering that every script you create will bring its own new bugs. Second, and more importantly, the perfect is the

RE: Advanced LFS

2010-12-12 Thread Fady Fawzy
Dear Ken, Thanks a lot for supporting me with this very excellent info ;) .. They are wanderful. please , i will ask you if i need more help in my design procedure . What if i use any suitable package manager ,and remove the gcc package to lock the Final distro completly ,and use only the

Re: new os

2010-12-12 Thread Drew Ames
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/12/2010 08:28 PM, robert wrote: Someday of course I'll be able to add only known quantities after the fresh build and thereby keep the whole thing smartly clean something like a system-wide RSA number. Robert, If you're looking for a

$LFS_TGT and Target build

2010-12-12 Thread Fady Fawzy
Dear LFS-Deveolpers, I detected that when we are build the /tools in CH5 , we used $LFS_TGT to install the packages with modified target build name as xxx-lfs-linux-gnu . When we are in CH6 we don't set the variable to be used in real LFS build and so we don't use it anymore .! I ask

Re: $LFS_TGT and Target build

2010-12-12 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Fady Fawzy wrote: Dear LFS-Deveolpers, I detected that when we are build the /tools in CH5 , we used $LFS_TGT to install the packages with modified target build name as xxx-lfs-linux-gnu . When we are in CH6 we don't set the variable to be used in real LFS build and so we don't use it