[lfs-support] E2fsprogs in section 2.3 of 7.2-rc1

the section 2.3 note imply that it *does* (or at least *might* ) make a difference? -- Regards Jim Michmerhuizenhttp://michmer.net There are far /fewer/ things in heaven and earth, Horatio, than are dreamt of in your philosophy. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman

[lfs-support] ext{3,4}

I'm about to build LFS, for about the fourth time in six years. I'm on ubuntu 10.04.4, intent on using a 20GB ext4 partition. The manual for LFS-7.0 specifies an ext3 partition. Is this important enough to make me reformat my /dev/sda11? It's no big deal, I'm just wondering whether ext4

Re: Networking Is My Weakest Area--A Really Basic Question

On 07/19/2010 01:50 PM, Neal Murphy wrote: There will be a file in /etc that defines the interfaces and how they are configured. (On Debian, it's /etc/network/interfaces; dunno about other systems, or even LFS.) In my 6.5 LFS it's /etc/sysconfig/network-devices/*, with an ifconfig-ethX for

mawk error from glibc make pass 1, in gen-sorted.awk

Hi maillist members -- I'm having trouble building the first-pass glibc-2.10.1 according to the instructions in section 5.7.1 of the 6.5 LFS book. [1] the Make aborts with this message: mawk: scripts/gen-sorted.awk: line 19: regular expression compile failed (bad class -- [], [^] or [) /[^

Re: mawk error from glibc make pass 1, in gen-sorted.awk

Chris Staub wrote: William's suggestion to install Gawk is correct, however more generally you need to check the Host System Requirements page and make sure you have everything listed there - Gawk is just one Another 'Doh!' for the record. A couple of days ago, when I was beginning the