[lfs-support] status report about the nouveau driver

2012-02-06 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello everyone, I still haven't done chapter 6 of the book but in preparation, I tried to test a git kernel (v3.3.0-rc2) along with the git sources of the nouveau driver for my nvidia card according to the instructions there: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM (section 1.2 in

Re: [lfs-support] Greetings and first two questions

2012-01-30 Thread Alain Toussaint
Le lundi 30 janvier 2012 à 22:47 -0500, rafe_b a écrit : Hi Bruce, I'm trying desperately to understand. I did read Sec. 5.3 carefully -- I printed it out and read it prior to doing any builds -- but the subsequent build steps don't seem to line up. The tree that I have is:

Re: [lfs-support] Greetings and first two questions

2012-01-30 Thread Alain Toussaint
Secondly, there was no 'gcc-4.x.x' directory created from the three un-tar operations in my case (from the V.7.0 LFS commands.) there are 4 untar operation, gcc-4.6.1, mpfr, gmp and mpc. you have to untar gcc-4.6.1 first with: tar xjvf gcc-4.6.1.tar.bz2 the book assume that you unpacked

[lfs-support] any pitfall when mounting /mnt/lfs partition relatime

2012-01-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello everyone, I just started building up LFS-SVN (my distro is very recent) and I've set up /etc/fstab with default options such like this: /dev/sda3 /mnt/lfsext4default 0 1 /dev/sda1 /mnt/lfs/boot ext3default 0 1 /dev/sda4

Re: [lfs-support] any pitfall when mounting /mnt/lfs partition relatime

2012-01-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
/dev/sda3 /mnt/lfsext4default 0 1 /dev/sda1 /mnt/lfs/boot ext3default 0 1 /dev/sda4 /mnt/lfs/home ext4noatime 0 1 but the partitions didn't mount with these option EXT4-fs (sda3): Unrecognized mount

[lfs-support] virtualisation

2012-01-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello everyone, My current system run windows xp 32 bit in virtualisation with virtualbox. unfortunately, my processor (amd athlon x2 socket 939) doesn't include any extension to accelerate virtualisation and thus, I can't run linux-kvm but I'd like to know if there are virtualisation

[lfs-support] chapter 5 done

2012-01-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
Good night, I did chapter 5 (not scripted); it went smoothly without failures. testsuites takes a while. chapter 6 will take longer but will happen during the week (starting from tuesday). Alain -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 in Cygwin.......

2012-01-21 Thread Alain Toussaint
Wish me luck or insanity! sound like me who will be trying out llvm/clang to compile LFS. Turn out that I recently discovered I need a multilib system in order to run virtualbox, sigh Alain (also insane). -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 - No Devices in /dev on boot up - Kernel then shuts off PC

2012-01-10 Thread Alain Toussaint
Thank You Andy. I've been reading and trying things all night... Mostly because I thought I WENT CRAZY selecting options in the kernel... I though there was no way I missed a simple network driver... But I did - I missed a WHOLE category PAGE of them! LOL - So I'm waiting for a new kernel

[lfs-support] my latest project

2012-01-10 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello Everyone, Tonight, after having maxed the ram out of my computer (4GB ddr-400, I received my ram from amazon this morning), I set out to install Gentoo in order to build LFS in 64 bit with the clang/LLVM 3.0 compiler system. I will try out Jason's scripts and will likely do

Re: [lfs-support] help LFS 6.0 Ch 5.7.1 glibc-2.14.1 configure: error: gcc must provide the cpuid.h header

2011-12-15 Thread Alain Toussaint
Guess I overlooked The LiveCD cannot be used to build LFS 7.0 or later. So what liveCD should I use then? There's the gentoo live dvd available at the bottom of this page: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml it has current up-to-date tools to build LFS. Alain --

RE: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread Alain Toussaint
hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). ^^ Could it be that the partition is FAT32 instead of ext(2,3,4)? Alain -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

RE: Building LFS using jhlfs

2011-09-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
It should be really simple, and it's stunning that this doesn't exist. And So what exactly was the answer, because there isn't one in the reply. Do you have a reading comprehension problem? You asked for a step by step guide, LFS is one. You asked for a script giving reproducible result.

RE: livedvd

2011-07-30 Thread Alain Toussaint
Which livedvd? Gentoo? Alain -Message d'origine- De : lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org [mailto:lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] De la part de Bill Cunningham Envoyé : 30 juillet 2011 18:50 À : lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Objet : livedvd This is just too much

RE: glibc error again

2011-07-27 Thread Alain Toussaint
On my host system? Oh no. The kernel that comes with RH9. 2.4.20-6. A redhat version of a 2.4 kernel. I would just install the latest gentoo but it's about as difficult if not more so than lfs. I have the minimal ISO and have to go online and download a couple of files and use nano. RH9

RE: glibc

2011-07-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
Bill, Do you have a dvd burner in that machine? How about trying a recent livedvd to build LFS instead of using RH9 which is quite old? In my case, I will use the gentoo livedvd and I verified that it contain recent version of all the utilities needed to compile LFS (it does) and is

RE: glibc

2011-07-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
Bill, Do you have a dvd burner in that machine? How about trying a recent livedvd to build LFS instead of using RH9 which is quite old? In my case, I will use the gentoo livedvd and I verified that it contain recent version of all the utilities needed to compile LFS (it does) and is

CFLAGS

2011-07-24 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello everyone, I am currently downloading a gentoo amd64 livedvd for my system as well as taking notes regarding how I'll build my installation of LFS and I am not sure about the CFLAGS I will use to build it. Here's the flags I've chosen after reviewing the

RE: CFLAGS

2011-07-24 Thread Alain Toussaint
Maybe. But for a first build, we recommend not setting CFLAGS at all unless specified in the book. Use the developer's defaults. They understand the software better than you (or we) do. Optimization rarely makes a discernible difference. I agree. The only difference I've ever noticed

RE: Boot hangs

2011-07-22 Thread Alain Toussaint
well, to bypass the bootscripts you could use root=/bin/bash, which gives you a bash prompt. it'll tell you if it got that far or not. isn't it init=/bin/bash? I had to do it so many time to fix /etc/fstab under gentoo 32 bit (which uses /dev/hd* for pata while my custom kernel use

Gentoo live-cd to install LFS

2011-07-18 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello Everyone, I looked at the archive up to last year (july 2010) to find out if a gentoo live cd as well as a gentoo stage 3 tarball could be used to install LFS but I haven't found anything yet, so, is there someone here who used these combination of package to install LFS? Thanks