Re: Packages less (406)

2008-01-04 Thread Justin R. Knierim
martin welsh wrote: Download address apparently no longer functional. Will less-416 be a suitable substitute? Don't forget all packages (should) be in the lfs ftp repo too! ftp://ftp.lfs-matrix.net/pub/lfs/conglomeration/less http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html#ftp Justin --

Re: book/package error concerning bash-3.0

2006-06-05 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Michiel Faber wrote: Hello, The first command in chapter 6.37.1 of lfs 6.1.1 is: tar -xvf ../bash-doc-3.0.tar.gz however the package i downloaded from a mirror ftp-server is named bash-doc-3.0.tar.bz2 and not *.gz The command should thus be: tar -xjvf ../bash-doc-3.0.tar.bz2 Not a big

Re: Problem with mount, umount or more...

2006-03-31 Thread Justin R. Knierim
laurent waro wrote: line whith mount, it says to me that /tools/bin/mount does not exist. You can try rebuilding util-linux, but likely: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html#any-no-such-file Justin -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: Does the LFS news server work?

2006-03-29 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Thomas Görblich wrote: Since you specified there that Posting messages from these methods is disabled, I just wanted to add that it seems be possible to reply via news reader. But you have to go through a gmane authorization first, once for every news group (http://gmane.org/post.php). In

Re: Gentoo LiveCD

2006-03-28 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Nikolai wrote: I was planning to use Gentoo's one because it is a LOT smaller than LFS's one... 50 MB versus 350 MB. Yes, it is smaller, but if it doesn't have the tools to build lfs... Also the LFS LiveCD contains 150MB worth of source packages, the LFS book, various automation tools

Re: Does the LFS news server work?

2006-03-28 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Dan Nicholson wrote: However, you can still use a news reader to read the mailing lists. They're just hosted at Gmane now. http://gmane.org/find.php?list=lfs I just added this link to the mailing list page on the LFS website, since I couldn't find this documented elsewhere besides in emails

Re: LFS bootup problem - S60setclock excited...

2006-03-19 Thread Justin R. Knierim
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: when cd into /etc i cant find clock how to create clock please? i think that might cause the problem? How about reading the book? There is a whole page on it: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter07/setclock.html We shouldn't really need to feed

Re: k6-2 /128mb /2gb

2006-03-18 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Howard wrote: After the lfslivecd-x86-6.1.1-3 failures, I was able to get a 6,2-pre3 burned and it is booting on the laptop! Cool, good. :) Resolution is too big though. Messed with my eyes too! It is easy enough to change it in XFCE as well. Right-click the desktop, settings menu and

Re: Minimal specs for LiveCD?

2006-01-27 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Niki Kovacs wrote: The subject says it all. What are the minimal requirements for using the LiveCD? In my testing, the LiveCD requires at a minimum 48MB ram to just boot to console. To be useful, at least 128MB is recommended. As soon as you boot, you can partition, mount a swap

Re: book version 6.1 , error happens in chapter 6.11 when i were compiling the glibc

2006-01-18 Thread Justin R. Knierim
yu Qiang wrote: book version 6.1 pre 2 *Why* are you using 6.1 and why a pre-release? If you are going to use Fedora 4 for a host, it would be a much better idea to use LFS 6.1.1. In that version, this issue is fixed. You need a patch to build binutils-2.15.94.0.2.2 with gcc 4+. You

Re: undefined reference to `yyparse'

2005-12-13 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Chandan M. C. wrote: Im building LFS over Debian as a hsot system... On make of binutils-build (chapter 5.1) , I got the following error undefined reference to `yyparse' Try searching the archives first. This exact question was asked and answered today.

[Announce] LFS LiveCD x86 6.1.1-2 Released

2005-12-11 Thread Justin R. Knierim
://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/download.html All mirrors have synced. Thank you to Steve Prior, Bobby Black and others in the LFS community for testing the beta versions and for reporting errors. -- Justin R. Knierim lfs at lfs dash matrix dot net -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs

[Announce] LFS LiveCD 6.1.1-1 Released

2005-12-01 Thread Justin R. Knierim
/livecd/download.html At the time this announcement was sent, not all mirrors have synced. -- Justin R. Knierim lfs at lfs dash matrix dot net -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS-6.1.1 released

2005-11-30 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Steve Prior wrote: This is great news. Any idea how soon we'll see an ALFS profile as well as a 6.1.1 LiveCD (I hope both are in the works...)? LiveCD is waiting for the ALFS profile and then we can do a final build. Probably will be done by tomorrow morning or noon. Justin --

Re: Hi! A few questions from a first timer

2005-11-21 Thread Justin R. Knierim
ChasJTurner wrote: Hi! I have finally decided to jump off the cliff and build lfs (my Knees have been shaking for months leading up to this) using lfs-packages-6.1.1.tar, and the LFS-BOOK-6.1.pdf. That is your problem right there. There is a 6.1 tarball for the 6.1 book. The

LFS LiveCD x86_64-CRS051009-pre1 Released

2005-10-19 Thread Justin R. Knierim
on this one. Please report problems to the LiveCD mailing list. Thank you. To download the new LiveCD, visit the LFS LiveCD download page: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/download.html -- Justin R. Knierim lfs at lfs dash matrix dot net -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs

Re: Bison-2.0 source in LFS 6.1

2005-10-12 Thread Justin R. Knierim
geoff wrote: I downloaded a source archive from http://ftp.gnu.org/gnu/bison and all was well. Can't find anything on Bugzilla. Is there some sublety I'm missing here? Thanks for the report. That is absolutely strange and no idea how that happened. For gnu packages I always download from

Re: Boot floppy for liveCD...

2005-09-11 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Christopher Reimer wrote: Greetings, Hi I'm starting out with an old Pentium 100MHz/40MB/20GB (a Fujitsu drive with Ontrack overlay software) laptop I built a LFS system on a similar system about 3 years ago (LFS 3.3 if I remember correctly) and it wasn't an enjoyable experience. It

Re: Cannot create link to / from $LFS/tools

2005-08-21 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Joseph Quigley wrote: I'm trying to make that link from / to $LFS/tools as root and I get this error: ln :'//tools': file exists $LFS isn't set. Oh, one other thing? Won't this overwrite / ? No, it puts a link in the root directory, meaning /tools. Justin --

Re: bunzip and untar locations

2005-08-09 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Matthew Burgess wrote: This is exactly the type of response that folks, unfortunately, have to deal with in #lfs-support in IRC. I am sorry, but please don't spread more rumors about things being bad on IRC. I hear this on the lists every once in a while, but I find that the LFS IRC is not

Re: LFS install troubles...

2005-08-06 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Srinath M wrote: I think it might be what Andrew says or simply, my drive lens or some component is not cooperating. I checked the specs on the cdrom. For my Thinkpad 390X, 'crn-8241b-(sm)' is the model/unit number or whatever for the CDROM hardware. How much memory do you have? You can

Re: LFS install troubles...

2005-08-06 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Srinath M wrote: No luck :( Can I post the output of dmesg here? :( Sure, or you can post as an attachment bzipped. Justin -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS times

2005-08-05 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Srinath M wrote: I'm about to start a clean LFS procedure in a few hours on mt IBM THinkpad 390x (500 MHz PIII, 128MB RAM, 10 GB HDD) using the live CD. How long do you think it will take to cover just the entire LFS book? I just finished a similar system. If you are doing the book by hand,

Re: LFS times

2005-08-05 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Srinath M wrote: Hi Justin, That was fast. Thanks. However, I cannot afford more than 4-6 hours at a stretch. Is it possible to do the installation in parts. Can I can turn the machine off, boot using the live CD again the next day and continue where I left off? Yes. Of course when you

Re: hello everyone,please help me!

2005-08-03 Thread Justin R. Knierim
杨炳麟 wrote: Hello all! This is my first build lfs by refer to LFS BOOK 6.0. I use FC4 as host system. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html#what-dist FC4 and other gcc-4.x host systems are currently not supported and will cause problems with the current build. Please try using a

Re: LFS CD

2005-07-26 Thread Justin R. Knierim
g. chinnery wrote: I then went looking for the Tarballs and couldn't find them. The /etc/issue file (which gives you the informational text on all terminals when you start from the livecd) states: All the source packages you will need to build an LFS system are located in /sources and you

Re: Download packages question

2005-06-27 Thread Justin R. Knierim
://www.linuxfromscratch.org/patches/lfs/6.0/ The patches may apply, but the patches were written for the 6.0 versions. We cannot make any guarantees that they will apply cleanly and/or cause compilation problems. If you want the 6.1 (testing) packages, please just build testing. -- Justin R. Knierim LFS FTP Mirror