[lfs-support] Minor cosmetic book issue

--- Also FYI, browsing to http:\\linuxfromscratch.org presents a webpage menu, with links that go to an LFS 404 page. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

[lfs-support] Errata for LFS 7.4

Minor issue with LFS 7.4 Host Requirements Changelog lists host system requirements changes for kernel to 2.6.34, however host requirement section only says 2.6.32 -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

[lfs-support] Coreutils 8.21 test failure - many-dir-entries-vs-oom

per group:512 Inode size: 256 Perhaps a note to check the inode count before running this test might be in order, or a note that it might fail? -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs

[lfs-support] Disk Usage in Stable LFS 7.3

requirements for GCC-4.7.2 in section 6.17 are stated as 2GB? Approximate build time:53.5 SBU Required disk space:2.0 GB Either the comment should be change to reflect GCC as the larger package, or the required disk space for GCC updated\corrected? -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 GCC pass 1

them before GCC instead of in the source tree. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] Q: best choice of Live CD to host/rescue LFS?

. Did you customise slax with extra packages? I've sucessfully customised it in the past, however the author announced a few weeks ago that he has recently found some interest in funding futher development, so version 7 with updated kernel and tools is due for alpha release soonish. -- -- - Steve

[lfs-support] LFS Museum - 6.7 directory permissions issue

http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/6.7/ all files report Access Denied when attempting to download. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LFS Museum - 6.7 directory permissions issue

On Tue, Jan 17, 2012 at 2:00 PM, Kevin Wise wisk...@opensuse.us wrote: On Tue, 2012-01-17 at 13:54 +1300, Steve Crosby wrote: http://archive.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs-museum/6.7/ all files report Access Denied when attempting to download. Hello Steve, Not quite sure what could be the problem

Re: [lfs-support] Use VM to do LFS

for disk and networking by your VM system. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Ok, now I am having issues

://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- code farmer from lanxiangjixiao -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

LFS7.0rc2 - Section 1.1 - LFS LiveCD still valid as a build host?

and see what else pops out. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: useradd now creates groups too

the option needed to change. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Confusion re: separate gcc-build directory

\installation, unless you're explicitly instructed to leave it in place for later. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: VmWare: Giving back control after halt

elements of ACPI into your kernal, then a halt will also close the VMWare virtual machine - I'm not near my VMWare at the moment, so can't advise on the actual kernel parameters involved. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: 18 hours and counting

of LFS CD to build my system and burn to CD, then boot Pentium from that - works fine, build time is only a few hours for current LFS + a few extras, resulting CD image is 34Mb -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Re: Dhcpcd and iptables problems (BLFS 6.1)

(you'll need to install the cron daemon too!) and the logrotate configuration files indicate after how long, what size etc to chop the logs smaller, keep x number of backup copies, compress the backups, etc. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: Spring Ahead

the files - no need for new glibc install ;) -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: How to set $PATH for fcron jobs?

) or sshd (for remote logins only) -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: No http/ftp program included in regular build?

/filename.extenstion filename.extension no additional binaries required. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: No http/ftp program included in regular build?

On 12/5/06, steve crosby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: just use this piece of script fu for http file downloading - I really should troll the archives and find out the proper attribution for this code, but it never seems I have enough time ;) made the time - kudos to the original poster, although

Re: gcc-4.1.1 pass2 cannot find limits.h

On 6/30/06, f. l. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: +#define DYNAMIC_LINKER /tool/lib/ld-linux.so.2 assuming it's not a typo, this should be tools, not tool, correct? -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html

Re: Are the gcc build files still needed after section 5.4?

symbolic link `/tools/bin/cc' to `gcc' # ls -l /tools/bin total 0 lrwxrwxrwx1 root root3 Jun 5 20:05 cc - gcc -rw-r--r--1 root root0 Jun 5 20:03 gcc -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: Are the gcc build files still needed after section 5.4?

refers to *where* the ln command will place the symlink file - I don't think the ln manpage does (or should) cover how the OS resolves symlinks. -- -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: Final step 9.3 then no reboot

# # Cryptographic options # # CONFIG_CRYPTO is not set # # Library routines # # CONFIG_CRC_CCITT is not set CONFIG_CRC32=y CONFIG_LIBCRC32C=y CONFIG_GENERIC_HARDIRQS=y CONFIG_GENERIC_IRQ_PROBE=y CONFIG_X86_BIOS_REBOOT=y CONFIG_PC=y -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo

Re: sysklogd question

,cron.none -/var/log/sys.log This means log everytyhing (*.*), and also log auth, authpriv and cron logs at a level of none - which effectivley means don't log them at all. man syslog.conf for more information on rules and exclusions. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman

Re: Kernel Config Question: SMP support?

processor machine? Newer Intel Pentium 4 chips have a feature known as HyperThreading - look on google for lots of info. The result is the kernel sees two CPU's - enabling SMP is required to use the HyperThreading capability. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs

Re: file permissions

On 8/11/05, Michiel Faber [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip this is what i do: rm -R patch-2.5.4 use (with care!) rm -rf directory -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: file permissions

an rm -r will not ask before removing it. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Re: small LFS distribution

, it's possible to get a standard LFS6.1 system stripped down to less than 20Mb, plus whatever additional package your system needs. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: how to compile NPTL using gcc 3.3.3 in 2.4.18 kernel

NTPL with Linux 2.4.x kernels. The effort to include the changes RedHat (and other distributions) provide to stock packages is simply too much for a very small volunteer community. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs

Re: internet connection with liveccd

On 7/25/05, Matthew Burgess [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Gerard Beekmans wrote: steve crosby wrote: Another option is to apply the FC2\3 workaround permanently - change the book instructions to download, compile and use e2fsprogs from LFS to create the LFS partition always, and never use

Re: internet connection with liveccd

the number of quirks is not high, and we could test and update relatively easily when a new host OS is released. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Minimal installation

, you are stuck with the packages you have now (unless you use a binary installer) - so make sure you have installed everything you want! One day, I'll write a hint about how I made this ;) -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: udevsend and hotplug

a properly grip on the new functionality. Ideally, the hotplug scripts will go away entirely, and be replaced by udev rules that can call modprobe directly, etc. - that will take some time however. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: How to build an entire LFS system using uclibc instead of glibc

? Which are the necessary steps to achieve this? The Hardened Linux From Scratch (HLFS) project has a early alpha book on how to use uClibc with LFS - you can skip the security bits (SSP, etc) and see if that suits your needs. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs

Re: I have no name!

. Changing Ownership Look at the last paragraph on the section you just finished (6.3) Note that the bash prompt will say I have no name! This is normal because the /etc/passwd file has not been created yet. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: Problems during compilation of binutils ...

installation, or it's broken. You can either install gettext on your host distribution, or use --disable-nls on the configure command line for binutils if you don't need language support. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs

Re: Backtracking HotPlug and Udev (SOLVED)

. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Backtracking HotPlug and Udev

, it looks like the new version will work in our current setup - if I find any additional issues I report them. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Held on 5.9. Adjusting the Toolchain

the binutils-build directory: -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: chroot problem (Chapter 6.3)

- the WCONTINUED patch, which is in the LFS patches repository - recompile bash with that patch and all should be fine. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Problem in running ln -s $LFS/tools /

to access /sources, instead of /mnt/lfs/sources. do a export LFS=/mnt/lfs and run the chown again. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Problem in running ln -s $LFS/tools /

be umask, not umash. When you run the source command, bash is reporting that it cannot find any command called umash. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: 16 Bash Patches found

. So it might actually be bash-3.0.16 by now. Joern Bash does not change it's version number when applying patches - the LFS supplied bash-3.0-fixes-3.patch contains all the known official bash patches - you can find this patch in the LFS patches project -- - Steve Crosby -- http

Re: Can LFS be copied from 1 hard drive to another after the build?

;) - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS suddenly not working!

find / -regex $PRUNEREGEX -prune -o -cnewer /tmp/.timestamp -type f /tmp/packages.log - -- Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: root user instead of LFS - Please help

I have: mkdir script3 exit Is this what you mean for me to do? Thank you ALL for your help suggestions. Bobby trouble in what sense? are the directories not created? hint - put a set -vx at the top of each script, which will display the commands as they run. - -- Steve Crosby -- http

Re: No such file or directory

Steve Crosby [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: snip Interesting - your /tools/bin/perl is hardlinked to something else (The 2 in the ls listing indicates the number of links to the file). I don't have a /tools directory handy, but I'm fairly sure that's not normal

RE: Problem .. Bootin' from LILO

system. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [EMAIL PROTECTED] ?

version of glibc? and of LFS? This error has been seen recently with the latest glibc snapshots and some other packages, but should not occur with the specified version in LFS 6.0 -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs

Re: Problem .. Bootin' from LILO

to diagnose this problem). -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Problem .. Bootin' from LILO

to match. Setting the TERM and PS variables is normally done in either the /etc/profile or /etc/bashrc files. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: why not /tools/lib?

? ;) -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Chroot problems

must do? This is a known issue - bash has a bug, fixed in the WCONTINUED patch you can find on the LFS website. Just rebuild Chapter 5 bash with this patch, and the hangs should disappear. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: ../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/configure --prefix=/tools \

: ../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/configure --prefix=/tools / --disable-nls is not (and actually produces unexpected results). -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

RE: File System Issues during bootup

? -Original Message- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of Gerard Beekmans Sent: Tuesday, February 22, 2005 11:20 AM To: LFS Support List Subject: Re: File System Issues during bootup On February 21, 2005 08:43 pm, Steve Crosby wrote: for example, to remove large_file

Re: kernel panic :No init found.try passing INIT=option to kernel

://hints.linuxfromscratch.org that deal with creating a live cd image from LFS - look to them for further assistance. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: about LFS license problem

) and also the LFS created patches. These may need consideration as to the license. -- - Steve Crosby -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: File System Issues during bootup

Gerard Beekmans [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: On February 21, 2005 04:38 pm, Steve Crosby wrote: If I get some time today I'll scribble up a fix process for this issue - it's not hard to do. That would be greatly appreciated too. It might even be preferable to put

Re: File System Issues during bootup

Vincent [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]: Steve Crosby wrote: When creating the LFS partition, you may need to make some slight adjustments if your host system uses certain filesystem features that won't be supported by LFS later on in the build process. To check