Re: FSCK oddness with FUSE.

2006-04-19 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 4/17/06, Richard A Downing FBCS CITP [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: However, I've been experimenting with FUSE (Filesystem in User Space), which has a driver in the kernel. The entry in fstab has a zero in the 6th field(fs-passno), i.e.: curlftpfs#langside:[EMAIL PROTECTED

FSCK oddness with FUSE.

2006-04-18 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
During boot the checkfs bootscript runs the command: fsck ${options} -a -A -C -T 2/dev/null and according to my reading of man fsck this means that fsck is to check each filesystem in /etc/fstab in the order specified by the 6th field. In my fstab I have a number of filesystem with zero as the

Re: To Indiana LFS'ers

2006-04-02 Thread Richard A Downing FBCS CITP
Archaic wrote: As fellow Hoosiers probably know, our fine government has again decided to change timezone laws. With a glorious history of changes being made not just at the state level, but on a county-by-county level, and with the addition of several changes that were implemented, reverted,

Re: What needs to be installed on your system before LFS

2006-03-19 Thread Richard A Downing
Fabien LUCE wrote: Bison, Flex and gcc should be enough on Ubuntu Are you sure?? Can someone confirm? Thanks a lot If you need your hand held this much, stick to Ubuntu. You are not ready for LFS yet. You could also try it and find out for yourself of course, rather than implying

Re: Digital Camera with a pure UDEV (no Hotplug) setup.

2006-03-03 Thread Richard A Downing
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 3/3/06, Richard A Downing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Richard A Downing wrote: Does anyone know how to set up such a system for gphoto2 (not usb-storage)? Does it just work for root when the usb-storage module is not loaded and /proc/bus

Re: General questions about LFS

2006-02-12 Thread Richard A Downing
Niki Kovacs wrote: Hi, I'm actually in the middle of the first LFS book, somwhere at the beginning of chapter 6. I appreciate the quality of the doc: everything is well explained, and I just have to follow the book. Just out of curiousity... 1) LFS/BLFS... is it just a learning

Re: Apologies

2006-02-06 Thread Richard A Downing
On Mon, 6 Feb 2006 16:35:07 GMT [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I can't believe I reposted the whole digest. Apologies to all. We all do something like that occasionally. Even pan-dimensional superbeings (like me). R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

Re: A way to keep track of packages while installing LFS

2006-02-03 Thread Richard A Downing
On Thu, 2 Feb 2006 19:45:20 -0800 Justin O'Neil [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Paul Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ http://www.geocities.com/paulgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: Everything you do communicates. (I do not personally endorse any additions after this

Re: /mnt/lfs entry in /etc/fstab?

2006-01-27 Thread Richard A Downing
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006 18:34:48 +0100 Clemens Haupt [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip Clemens, I realise that you are helping another German speaker. However this list is English. If you give him bad advice we can't correct it if we didn't understand it. Please stick to English on the lists and

Re: New LFS user: introduction

2006-01-25 Thread Richard A Downing
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:03:24 +0100 Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I'm an Austrian writer living in Montpezat (South France), and a 100% GNU/Linux user since 2001. Excellent, you are the 'Target Audience'. Welcome to LFS. One question, just on the curious side: how did you

Re: New LFS user: introduction

2006-01-25 Thread Richard A Downing
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:24:42 + Alan Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard A Downing wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:03:24 +0100 Niki Kovacs [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, snip It doesn't actually take that long as long as you READ the book CAREFULLY. (There have been quite a few

Re: lfs history

2006-01-18 Thread Richard A Downing
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 09:55:47 +0100 Jeremy Monnet [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi all, I have searched the web site for an history of the lfs, but I couldn't find it, can you tell me if there is one ? My point is I built (b)lfs-6.1, and I would like to start another build, and I was wondering

Re: lfs history

2006-01-18 Thread Richard A Downing
On Wed, 18 Jan 2006 11:23:14 +0100 Tor Olav Stava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Maybe you should ask yourself what you want from your system. Good advice. I've been using SVN version for the last dozen builds, and there's been no major issues with it. Of course, I don't have any critical

Re: About chapters 6.5 and 6.6

2005-12-21 Thread Richard A Downing
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 16:39:25 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Richard A Downing wrote: sudo - nice package, solves the problem of scripting su. It's not in BLFS (but should be), however it's a straight CMMI package. Yes it is. :D Recent addition. So it is. --with-all

Re: About chapters 6.5 and 6.6

2005-12-20 Thread Richard A Downing
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:44:16 - (GMT) S. Anthony Sequeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, December 20, 2005 11:48, Jeremy Byron said: Dan Nicholson wrote: Yep, no reason why not. You can script everything if you want. In fact, I doubt there are any veteran LFSers who don't script

Re: About chapters 6.5 and 6.6

2005-12-20 Thread Richard A Downing
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 20:26:59 +0100 Michiel Faber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Dan Nicholson schreef: On 12/20/05, Richard A Downing [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 12:44:16 - (GMT) S. Anthony Sequeira [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Tue, December 20, 2005 11:48

Re: About chapters 6.5 and 6.6

2005-12-20 Thread Richard A Downing
On Tue, 20 Dec 2005 11:54:27 -0800 Dan Nicholson [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On 12/20/05, Michiel Faber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I indeed tried su(do) but i didn't wan't the asking for password stuff. I'm no sudo expert, but I think there's is a way to disable the password prompt.

Re: How much will be the LFS size

2005-12-16 Thread Richard A Downing
On Fri, 16 Dec 2005 14:02:21 +0530 (IST) Chandan M. C. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hai All , I want to know what will be the actual size of LFS ..After building completely .. We are getting 270 MB... Can it be reduced still . Regards Chandan Hints. --

Re: job done.

2005-12-08 Thread Richard A Downing
On Thu, 8 Dec 2005 12:45:27 +0100 Tony Balinski [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: From: Karl: Hi, just to let you all know, I have (almost) seamlessly set up what I had running in slackware, lfs style; the checklist:- ... boot in 30 seconds - tick (nearly 2 minutes in slack) ... One happy

Re: make check of glibc results in error while loading shared libraries

2005-12-02 Thread Richard A Downing
On Wed, 30 Nov 2005 17:51:09 -0500 Andy Kalenderian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: in HTML. So he should be ignored. He hasn't read either the FAQ or the Essential Pre-Reading Hint. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????

2005-12-01 Thread Richard A Downing
On Thu, 1 Dec 2005 00:15:36 -0600 Kevin Barnard [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: OK I thought I'd try to run through the LFS install. I'm using a basic Fedora Code 4 host minimal install with a few extra RPMs so I can build. This is a FAQ. FC4 isn't a suitable host distro. Read FAQ. Search

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-01 Thread Richard A Downing
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:04:50 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: Bing. You hit the nail on the head there. As Richard said, Fedora Core 4 isn't a suitable distro to build the stable version of the book. It should work OK for the development version but

Re: For 486s

2005-11-04 Thread Richard A Downing
On Thu, 03 Nov 2005 22:09:27 + (GMT) Ian [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi, I have a number of 486 machines. They have very little memory 16M or less. My interest is to make a version of Linux to run a few programs on these, particularly the mail program Mutt and Midnight Commander; no X

Re: Moving /root partition

2005-10-18 Thread Richard A Downing
Tom wrote: How do I correctly move the root partition to another partition? Im also want to move /usr /var as well and probably /home I've not tried this, but I think it should work. Boot using something like this grub line: kernel (hd0,5)/boot/lfskernel-1.2.3 root=/dev/hda4

Re: Postfix and package users hint

2005-10-06 Thread Richard A Downing
S. Anthony Sequeira wrote: A question for the package users users out there. Anyone using postfix as their MTA? This thread seems to have dissolved into 'recommend an MTA'. I'd recommend XMail. It's easy to build, easy to configure, has a built in pop3 server, integrates well with clamav or

Re: FC4 (gcc 4 and binutils)

2005-09-18 Thread Richard A Downing
Ian Brown wrote: Hello LFS List, Can LFS stabel (6.1) be build with FC4 ? No. The FC4 Gcc is heavily patched and doesn't work. Search the archives of LFS-Dev and LFS-Support for possible ways round this. R. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: Installing Grub on a fresh system

2005-09-15 Thread Richard A Downing
Lennon Cook wrote: I'm about to be re-doing LFS (using the GCC4 book, while I built my current system using the 6.1-pre1 book), and I'm wondering: if /boot is on a separate partition, do I need to reinstall Grub as part of LFS, or will my current one still do the job? That is to say: are

Re: Boot floppy for liveCD...

2005-09-12 Thread Richard A Downing
Christopher Reimer wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: I'm unclear what you mean by 40MB/20GB and 'Ontrack' - that sounds like a windoze driver ? I imagine it will take several days to build LFS on a P100, so I wouldn't look forward to it, but it should certainly be possible. The laptop I have

Re: Cross compile for an i586

2005-09-12 Thread Richard A Downing
Mark wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: ... Cross-lfs is probably untested for pentium-class processors ( i686), and had certain issues with glibc last week which make me reluctant to recommend it for this specific situation (because restarting from the beginning will be painfully slow), and the

Re: Bloated e2fsprogs?

2005-07-29 Thread Richard A Downing
David Jensen wrote: David Rosal wrote: Hi again. Continuing to reduce the size of my LFS, I've found a quite strange thing: it seems that e2fsprogs installs identical files with different names instead of simply symlink them. For example: I was sent to newbie corner last week! :-)