Re: after LFS install and reboot, completely screwed-up CMOS

2005-12-14 Thread Micheal E Cooper
On Mon, 2005-12-12 at 07:11 +0900, Micheal E Cooper wrote: So can I assume that I missed something in the kernel compile that in some code that rewrote my CMOS upon booting up LFS? Karl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am sticking my neck out here but I would guess that it was purely a hardware

after LFS install and reboot, completely screwed-up CMOS

2005-12-11 Thread Micheal E Cooper
I am sure this is my fault. I had never compiled a kernel before, and with the world conspiring to keep me away from my lfs test box for more than 10 minutes at a time, it had taken quite a long time to get LFS done. Granted, it was my first time. I took the kernel settings as they were, compiled

Re: livecd

2005-12-02 Thread Micheal E Cooper
--- Ian Armstrong [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I agree the LiveCD really sucks I disagree!! Edward Poe [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I would have to agree with you whole-heartedly. I recently performed my first install of LFS using the LiveCD. I really liked the idea that all of the necessary

Re: LFS-6.1.1 released

2005-11-30 Thread Micheal E Cooper
The Linux From Scratch community is pleased to announce the release of LFS 6.1.1. This release includes fixes for all known errata since LFS-6.1 was released 4 months ago. Thank you for LFS. I am enjoying it immensely. I am in the middle of doing 6.1 with the LiveCD. Is the software all the

Re: LFS-6.1.1 released

2005-11-30 Thread Micheal E Cooper
Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: If you're pointing you're browser at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/, then it should now be 6.1.1. Depending on how far you've gotten, you may want to restart the build. I know, I know, you've put a lot of time into it. However,

Re: LFS-6.1.1 released

2005-11-30 Thread Micheal E Cooper
Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: later on if the new patches aren't included. Installing glibc on a live system is not for the faint of heart as you could easily blow your whole system. Well, I am doing this on a 2nd HDD with 3 primary partitions, one extended. I plan to use these

At 6.61, backup before Stripping Again stripping itself

2005-11-22 Thread Micheal E Cooper
In 6.61, the good book says, However, it is easy to make a typo and render the new system unusable, so before running the strip command, it is a good idea to make a backup of the current situation. So what is the best way to make this backup? (1) As root user of the host system, do 'tar -cjf

cannot copy and paste in LiveCD environ

2005-11-08 Thread Micheal E Cooper
Using LiveCD, latest version. In '5.7. Adjusting the Toolchain', the book suggests using copy and paste to enter: SPECFILE=`gcc --print-file specs` sed 's@ /lib/ld-linux.so.2@ /tools/lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' \ $SPECFILE tempspecfile mv -f tempspecfile $SPECFILE unset SPECFILE so I assume

5.7 gcc --print-file specs segmentation fault

2005-11-08 Thread Micheal E Cooper
I am using LFS LiveCD, latest version with no customizations or variations. I submitted the previous copy-paste problem post after manually typing in the long sed-and-replace command in 5.7: SPECFILE=`gcc --print-file specs` sed 's@ /lib/ld-linux.so.2@ /tools/lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' \

Re: cannot copy and paste in LiveCD environ

2005-11-08 Thread Micheal E Cooper
Roger Merchberger : Try click-drag selecting and then *middle button* clicking on the terminal window or XEdit. If your mouse has only 2 buttons, try clicking *both* of them at the same time - that's called 3-button-emulation. Thank you. Excuse me while I crawl under the nearest rock.

Re: 5.7 gcc --print-file specs segmentation fault

2005-11-08 Thread Micheal E Cooper
Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED]: About the copy and paste. I've never used the LiveCD, but I'm Thank you. I now know, or have been re-informed, about the middle button. I have been using RHEL for so long that I forgot about it. Next, which gcc Does this return /usr/bin/gcc or

Re: p54 'make -C ld clean' - no ld directory

2005-11-04 Thread Micheal E Cooper
in /tools, so if I needed to, I could move back to the host system after /tools are finished, right? Ken Moffat wrote: On Fri, 4 Nov 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: Micheal E Cooper wrote: I have followed the book directions exactly, not customizing anything. I am using LFS 6.1, the stable

p54 'make -C ld clean' - no ld directory

2005-11-03 Thread Micheal E Cooper
Newly joined the list. Nice to meet you. I very much appreciate LFS, and I hope that someday in the not-so-distant future, I will be able to contribute to it. However, for the time being, I am still learning. Wonderful project this is. If I end up violated etiquette, please tell me and I will