Re: [lfs-support] 8.3 - Kernel Build

2013-11-06 Thread stosss
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: just as we consider that updating the kernel headers when updating the kernel is wrong. Why is this considered wrong? -- Jack -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] 8.3 - Kernel Build

2013-11-06 Thread stosss
On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 12:57 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: On Wed, Nov 6, 2013 at 8:47 AM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: just as we consider that updating the kernel headers when updating the kernel is wrong. Why is this considered wrong

Re: [lfs-support] Kernel can't mount root fs

2013-08-04 Thread stosss
On Sun, Aug 4, 2013 at 10:22 PM, Douglas R. Reno renodr2...@gmail.comwrote: Hello again, After installing GRUB for booting my LFS system, I had numerous problems. I fixed those by determining the proper partition (hd0,4) instead of (hd0,2). My LFS Installation was done on /dev/sda4. After

Re: [lfs-support] Can't get LFS to boot, fsck.ext4 no such file or directory while trying to open ....

2013-03-24 Thread stosss
On Sun, Mar 24, 2013 at 2:51 PM, TJ Olaes cont...@olaes.net wrote: akhiezer lfs65 at cruziero.com writes: So it's not really a matter of whether the drives are physically or (somehow) logically IDE: your new LFS might require the 'sd..' naming. Bingo. That's relevant info that's not

Re: [lfs-support] Ubuntu 12.10 install

2013-03-03 Thread stosss
On Sun, Mar 3, 2013 at 3:31 PM, Keith Clark keithcl...@waterloosubstop.com wrote: On 13-03-03 02:57 PM, Denis Mugnier wrote: On 03/03/13 20:51, Keith Clark wrote: On 13-03-03 02:37 PM, spiky wrote: On 03/03/13 19:36, Keith Clark wrote: Has anyone successfully completed the LFS using Ubuntu

Re: [lfs-support] LFS : 7.2 | Compilation Problem in Binutils-2.22

2013-03-01 Thread stosss
On Fri, Mar 1, 2013 at 2:54 AM, Rubin Saifi rubinsa...@live.com wrote: Dear LFS community , i am getting this error on binutils-2.22 when issuing make -c check command PASS: test-expandargv-3. PASS: test-expandargv-4. PASS: test-expandargv-5. PASS: test-expandargv-6. make[3]: Leaving

Re: [lfs-support] PROBLEM IN GCC-4.7.1 PASS 1 COMPILATION

2013-02-20 Thread stosss
On Wed, Feb 20, 2013 at 6:15 AM, Rubin Saifi rubinsa...@live.com wrote: here is the error that i am getting -- checking for __gmpz_init in -lgmp... yes checking for MPFR... no

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.2 glibc build errors

2013-02-17 Thread stosss
Hi Gavin On Sun, Feb 17, 2013 at 9:49 PM, Gavin gavin.biz.em...@gmail.com wrote: Hi - to fix this, you need to start with a fresh source untar of (and clean build directory for) glibc when working through chapter 6 of LFS 7.2. That's because, in section 5.7.1, the book instructs you to do

Re: [lfs-support] Saved tools at the end of chapter 5 question

2013-02-15 Thread stosss
On Fri, Feb 15, 2013 at 7:32 PM, William Harrington berzerk...@cox.net wrote: On Feb 15, 2013, at 6:12 PM, stosss wrote: Can and will some one point me in the correct direction please? rm -rf /tools/* extract the tools use the tools. If you backed them up, then you should know how

Re: [lfs-support] How to start again to build LFS from zero?

2013-02-13 Thread stosss
On Wed, Feb 13, 2013 at 11:44 PM, Andi Blacktigerbro bl4cktig3r...@gmail.com wrote: How to start again to build LFS from zero, I think deleting sources/tools directories, lfs user/group are not enough? You can always reformat/overwrite the partitions you want to wipe clean. I don't understand

Re: grub-install

2010-05-15 Thread stosss
On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote: On 15 May 2010 22:09, Yan Mo yinor...@gmail.com wrote: After doing a searchs of the Linux From Scratch website, I noticed that this section of the book changes frequently. Should I try one of the previous ways of

Re: linux from scratch in 6.3 and section 5.7

2010-04-21 Thread stosss
On Wed, Apr 21, 2010 at 1:50 AM, David Expósito david.sa...@gmail.com wrote: Hello  Me and position with linux from scratch in 6.3 and section 5.7 gives me the tools to adjust the following error.  the line:   gcc-dumpspecs | sed 's @ ^ / lib/ld-linux.so.2 @ / tools @ g' \    `Dirname $

Re: Problem with LFS6.6 and Expect

2010-04-15 Thread stosss
On Thu, Apr 15, 2010 at 4:35 PM, duck wilson duck.54...@gmail.com wrote: Greetings, I am at Section 5.12, the build and install of Expect. While installing expect the following error occurs: lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/expect-5.43$ make SCRIPTS= install expect_install_log mkdir

Re: glibc installation problem in lfs 6.6

2010-04-14 Thread stosss
On Wed, Apr 14, 2010 at 12:11 PM, fantasy xu silenthunter.fant...@gmail.com wrote: i have compiled glibc successfully at section 6.9.1 (Installation of Glibc), but when trying to install it, i got an error.the error message is CC=gcc /usr/bin/perl scripts/test-installation.pl

Re: glibc compiling problem in lfs 6.6

2010-04-13 Thread stosss
On Tue, Apr 13, 2010 at 2:38 PM, Jordan Peters daweef...@gmail.com wrote: afte binutils is done with the make install i try testing it like it says in the book. i am told it cannot run compiled c program. is x86_64 32 bit? First thing, post your replies under what you are quoting not above.

Re: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS; Unable to mount root fs on unknown-block(2.0)

2010-04-12 Thread stosss
On Mon, Apr 12, 2010 at 9:45 AM, mas...@mail.com wrote: Hi i got this error when i tried to boot in to my LFS system. could it be that my fstab is screwed up, or is it something i forgot to do with the kernel? I'm using the LFS 6.6 book, and i am doing this in vmware. This is how my

Re: 8.4.3. Testing the Configuration

2010-04-05 Thread stosss
On Mon, Apr 5, 2010 at 2:40 PM, Raj munka...@gmail.com wrote: on issuing the command grub kernel /boot/grub/core.img i get the error unknown command kernel what should i do. please help Chapters 1.4 and 1.5 -- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people,

Re: LFS 6.6 X86_64

2010-04-03 Thread stosss
I was able to boot the SysRescueCD with the 64-bit kernel. That should work for me. -- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under the pretence of taking care of them, they must become happy. - Thomas Jefferson --

Re: Kernel Panic after booting first time

2010-04-03 Thread stosss
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Kaleb Hosie kho...@spectraaluminum.com wrote: I'm really stumped right now and I could use some help. I've finished compiling the Kernel for my first LFS deployment and I after I finished rebooting it for the first time, I get a Kernel Panic. Here's what is

Re: Kernel Panic after booting first time

2010-04-03 Thread stosss
On Sat, Apr 3, 2010 at 3:38 PM, Kaleb Hosie kho...@spectraaluminum.com wrote: I'm really stumped right now and I could use some help. I've finished compiling the Kernel for my first LFS deployment and I after I finished rebooting it for the first time, I get a Kernel Panic. Here's what is

LFS 6.6 X86_64

2010-04-02 Thread stosss
Any one have any suggestions? The LFS x86_64 6.3 r2160 LiveCD boots but won't read the SATA discs. I tried the Fedora LiveCD and it won't even boot. Neither will the Gentoo x86_64 or Debian x86_64 install CDs -- If we can but prevent the government from wasting the labours of the people, under

32-bit or 64-bit Kernel prep and RAM

2010-04-01 Thread stosss
If I compile the kernel with 64GB instead of 4GB on a 32-bit system that would allow me to use more than 4GB of physical RAM. Is my understanding correct? I have seen earlier that 64-bit does not improve performance very much over 32-bit. My main interest in building a 64-bit system is to be able

Re: 32-bit or 64-bit Kernel prep and RAM

2010-04-01 Thread stosss
On Thu, Apr 1, 2010 at 7:11 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: If I compile the kernel with 64GB instead of 4GB on a 32-bit system that would allow me to use more than 4GB of physical RAM. Is my understanding correct? Maybe.  It depends on your hardware.  If it's

Re: Host requirement package version difference

2010-03-30 Thread stosss
On Tue, Mar 30, 2010 at 4:17 PM, Suraj Linux suraj.embedded.li...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I just checked my system's packages and the version on it. The version of binutils and GCC  is higher than recommended. Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.20 gcc (Ubuntu 4.4.1-4ubuntu9) 4.4.1 One

Re: Unable to compile GCC-4.4.3, Pass 1

2010-03-27 Thread stosss
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 6:04 AM, Philippe Delavalade philippe.delaval...@sfr.fr wrote: Le samedi 27 mars à 10:27, Simon Geard a écrit : On Fri, 2010-03-26 at 23:20 -0400, Chris Staub wrote: I don't need anyone to tell me how important it is to make sure the book is clear - ensuring that the

Re: Unable to compile GCC-4.4.3, Pass 1

2010-03-27 Thread stosss
On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 12:17 PM, Chris Staub ch...@beaker67.com wrote: On 03/27/2010 05:27 AM, Simon Geard wrote: Hey, calm down a moment, Chris. Nobody is disputing that. I'd say stosss certainly is, but then why should I care what he thinks...yeah you're right, guess I just need to calm

Re: Unable to compile GCC-4.4.3, Pass 1

2010-03-26 Thread stosss
On Fri, Mar 26, 2010 at 10:12 PM, Chris Staub ch...@beaker67.com wrote: On 03/26/2010 10:00 PM, Chris Staub wrote: On 03/26/2010 09:22 PM, Simon Geard wrote:       The GCC documentation recommends building GCC outside       of it's source directory in a dedicated build directory. To me,

Re: Unable to compile GCC-4.4.3, Pass 1

2010-03-26 Thread stosss
Oh geez, more you experts don't comprehend thought processes of mere mortals nonsense. How about skipping the generic you know because you've done it 1000 times and just get to the actual point? I don't need anyone to tell me how important it is to make sure the book is clear - ensuring that

Re: Bk6.6Ch6.9 glibc compile stopped with `__stack_chk_guard'

2010-03-24 Thread stosss
On Thu, Mar 25, 2010 at 12:08 AM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: x2...@lycos.com wrote:      Hi All,      I've reached LFS Bk6.6 Ch6.9 Glibc-2.11.1.      I've followed the book pretty much to the letter. Translation: I haven't followed the book; I'm not going to tell in

Re: Kernel panic - VFS

2010-03-23 Thread stosss
On Tue, Mar 23, 2010 at 3:55 AM, Yaacov-Yoseph Weiss yywe...@cs.huji.ac.il wrote: I saw that the list places my messages at the top level of the threads, and not as a response to previous messages. I assume this is because I get the digest version, and reply to that and change the subject. If

Re: Can't find commads in chroot environment

2010-03-22 Thread stosss
On Mon, Mar 22, 2010 at 1:56 AM, Caramon Majere caramon...@gmail.com wrote: I have accomplished all steps in LFS-BOOK-6.3 until 6.7, when I compiled Linux API header in chroot environment. The error message is sample and clearly: xargs is not here.Howerver it is in the path /tools/bin,while

Re: Error at Gawk-3.1.7 make check, Chapter 5.20

2010-03-17 Thread stosss
On Wed, Mar 17, 2010 at 4:09 PM, Christian Rauhut crau...@web.de wrote: Hello, I got the following error while running the make check: Starting tests that can vary based on character set or locale support asort asorti fmttest fnarydel fnparydl lc_num1 ./lc_num1.ok

Re: v6.6 section 6.10, Re-adjusting the Toolchain

2010-03-16 Thread stosss
From the Book, the 3rd block of commands are: -- echo 'main(){}' dummy.c cc dummy.c -v -Wl,--verbose dummy.log readelf -l a.out | grep ': /lib' -- The only thing that I see that is different

Re: LFS 6.6 x86_64 problem in Chapter 6.9 Glibc-2.11.1

2010-03-15 Thread stosss
Answer in the middle. 2010/3/15 Szabolcs Gyalókay gyalo...@gmail.com: Hi All, I'm trying to build 6.6 on an older multilib install of Gentoo, by the book, I'm copy pasting commands for safety. But compiling of glibc fails in chapter 6.9: gcc -pie -Wl,-O1 -nostdlib -nostartfiles -o

Re: How to implement pkgtool in LFS and where to download it

2010-03-15 Thread stosss
On Mon, Mar 15, 2010 at 3:33 AM, Sathya Narayana.R sathyan...@gmail.com wrote: I want to follow pkgtool from the chapter 6 (LFS 6.5).. so some one tell me how, please waiting..., Do you mean pkg-config? If so, what do you want to know? --

Re: LFS-Book 6.3 Chap 5.7 Adjusting The Toolchain Error?

2010-03-15 Thread stosss
2010/3/15 Franz L. Kuhlmann f_kuhlm...@freenet.de: Trying to build LFS using the LiveCD.iso within SUN VirtualBox under Windows XP by the book echo $(gcc -print-libgcc-file-name) returns /mnt/lfs/tools/bin/../lib/gcc/i686-pc-linux-/gnu/4.1.2 how come ??? While

Re: grep-2.5.4

2010-03-14 Thread stosss
On Sun, Mar 14, 2010 at 2:21 PM, guitarje...@radioheadfan.com wrote: Ok. so I am in lfs book 6.6 at section 6.27 grep-2.5.4. Grep has failed 1 of 14 tests fmbtest.sh: PASS: warning.sh PASS: khadafy.sh PASS: spencer1.sh PASS: bre.sh PASS: ere.sh PASS: pcre.sh PASS: status.sh PASS:

Grub/Grub2/Grub Legacy and x86_64

2010-03-13 Thread stosss
I think I saw a post telling another user to use Grub 2 for a 64-bit system. Is this correct? GRUB-1.97.2 this appears to be the new Grub 2. Is this correct? The GNU web site says most distributions would be using 1.96. So, If I am going to build LFS 6.6, with the LFS 6.3 r2160 x86_64 LiveCD as

General question about LFS 6.6

2010-03-10 Thread stosss
To some of you this might be obvious. To me it is not. If I run a 64bit host and build using the LFS 6.6 sources and book as is will I have a 64bit LFS 6.6 system or do I need to make some changes to some of the book's instructions? Like I already said, this is not obvious to me or I would not be

Re: General question about LFS 6.6

2010-03-10 Thread stosss
On Wed, Mar 10, 2010 at 5:49 AM, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote: On 10 March 2010 09:33, stosss sto...@gmail.com wrote: To some of you this might be obvious. To me it is not. If I run a 64bit host and build using the LFS 6.6 sources and book as is will I have a 64bit LFS 6.6

question about case command in lfs6.6 chap5.4

2010-03-09 Thread stosss
Linux From Scratch - Version 6.6 Chapter 5. Constructing a Temporary System 5.4. Binutils-2.20 - Pass 1 5.4.1. Installation of Cross Binutils case $(uname -m) in x86_64) mkdir -v /tools/lib ln -sv lib /tools/lib64 ;; esac Is the command above correct? There is only one ( but there are two )

Re: GVFS isn't loading at session start

2010-03-08 Thread stosss
READ THIS http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/#netiquette -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: Partition Sizes, AGAIN!

2010-03-04 Thread stosss
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Johnneylee Rollins wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 12:13 PM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: On 04/03/10 19:13, Mike McCarty wrote: [...] Here's my initial thoughts... prtn

Re: Partition Sizes, AGAIN!

2010-03-04 Thread stosss
On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 4:39 PM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: stosss wrote: On Thu, Mar 4, 2010 at 3:45 PM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: I want to put it where each bootable version can access it. I don't want to carve 1G out of each of the partitions, so

Re: LFS6.5 - Bash question

2010-03-03 Thread stosss
On Wed, Mar 3, 2010 at 2:20 PM, David Shaw dj.s...@btconnect.com wrote: echo $TERM should be linux. If not, post all of the 'set' output.    -- Bruce A-ha! root:/# echo $TERM xterm It will be xterm if you are running in xorg and open a terminal. root:/# set BASH=/bin/bash

Re: Keeping up to date

2010-03-01 Thread stosss
On Monday, March 1, 2010, brad martin emcli...@gmail.com wrote: I think this is where a package management system comes into play.  In my past LFS system I wrote a package manager using shell scripts much like the one that Slackware uses (Sorry I no longer have it).  What my package manager

Re: Keeping up to date

2010-03-01 Thread stosss
On 2 March 2010 02:05, stosss sto...@gmail.com wrote: I have been building Gentoo lately, because I want to build a 64bit syytem with current source code and with a book already written for 64bit systems. I also want a package manager. I will continue with my LFS build and move to the 64bit

Re: radical mormons

2010-02-28 Thread stosss
GET THIS CULT CRAP OFF THIS LIST!! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: How is the LiveCD different from actual Version 6.6-rc1 build?

2010-02-22 Thread stosss
KNOPPIX is built from Debian, and Debian is known to have problems with USB keyboards, the last time I used it. Is your keyboard direct connect, or through a hub? The latter has also been known to cause problems with several versions of the kernel, so I strongly suggest you not to use a hub

Re: chroot N. 2

2010-02-17 Thread stosss
On Wed, Feb 17, 2010 at 3:40 AM, Louis Davies davieslingr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I log out (and shutdown the computer also) between the two chapters 5 and 6. When I logged in as root I noted that the environment wasn't the correct one (e.g. LFS wasn't defined), so I hit the command su -

Re: chroot

2010-02-16 Thread stosss
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 5:32 PM, Louis Davies davieslingr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I executed all the procedure which is delineated in Chapter 5 to install lfs version 6.5 and all things behave correctly, but when I launch (as root) the command chroot of section 6.4 I obtain the response:

Re: partition sizes

2010-02-16 Thread stosss
On Tue, Feb 16, 2010 at 6:10 PM, aztec...@comcast.net wrote: Hey guys, I have a system with 3 separate Hard drives that I would like to know how to partition and I would like to know if there is anyone with any suggestions. There are currently three hard drives on my system: #1 :     20 GB

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-14 Thread stosss
On Sun, Feb 14, 2010 at 7:11 AM, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote: On 14/02/10 04:06, Simon Geard wrote: With a by-the-book LFS setup, /tmp is a tmpfs mount - an in-memory filesystem that's thrown away on shutdown/reboot. That's news to me. Maybe I've not been keeping up. Where in the

Re: Glibc test failure

2010-02-14 Thread stosss
I did this command. It worked fine: cp -v ../glibc-2.10.1/iconvdata/gconv-modules iconvdata This is the command it fails on: make -k check 21 | tee glibc-check-log And here are the results of the final command if I issue it: make[2]: *** [posix/tests] Error 2 make[2]: *** [check]Error 2

Re: Glibc test failure

2010-02-14 Thread stosss
Stop top posting! That is against the rules on the LFS lists and it won't be tolerated. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: saving info on livecd?

2010-02-12 Thread stosss
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 6:19 AM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Jordan Peters wrote: i'm using the ubuntu linux livecd to make my 6.5 lfs install and i'm wondering how to save the variables and such i make during the book. like is there a way to save the info created during

Re: Booting problems

2010-02-12 Thread stosss
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:08 PM, brown wrap gra...@yahoo.com wrote: The first time I tried to modify the old grub.conf, I just add the lines created by the new grub.cfg, must made them adhere to the format used in grub.conf. That attempted boot, resulted in no such partition. So I changed

Re: Openssh chapter 19

2010-02-12 Thread stosss
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: stosss wrote: svn-20100203 from the 02-10-2010 archive The last sentence in the paragraph between make and make test. _To run the test suite, first copy the scp program to /usr/bin, making sure that you back up

Re: Booting problems

2010-02-12 Thread stosss
Because the syntax is wrong.  See the example in the book. Also, the kernel line is probably wrong if you didn't set up a separate /boot partition. It's really hard maintain patience when users ask questions without trying to do some research, like reading the book, on their own. It's

Re: Openssh chapter 19

2010-02-12 Thread stosss
On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 3:14 PM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: stosss wrote: [where's my stuff?] On Fri, Feb 12, 2010 at 2:31 PM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: [...] That depends upon how you configure your build. I suggest you read the section

Re: Make mrproper

2010-02-10 Thread stosss
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 5:00 PM, Louis Davies davieslingr...@gmail.com wrote: Hi, I'm trying to build lfs version 5.0and I installed binutils and cross gcc. Do you mean chapter 5? After this step I created the symlink and - following the instructions in section 5.3 - I deleted gcc source

Re: ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 or ifcfg-eth0 why the difference

2010-02-09 Thread stosss
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:54 AM, stosss sto...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:39 AM, stosss sto...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: When looking at the VM settings for the VMs the network adapter is set to NAT

Re: What's up with the gcc-4.1.2-specs-1.patch?

2010-02-09 Thread stosss
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:48 AM, Kyle Rush k...@cyber-rush.org wrote: What's up with the gcc-4.1.2-specs-1.patch? when I run it, it prompts for what file to patch, and it seems to think it should patch a whole bunch of files, none of which actually exist. If I try to patch them anyway, it

Re: ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 or ifcfg-eth0 why the difference

2010-02-09 Thread stosss
YES!!! (fist pump in the air) I have connectivity! A little early to get excited. I have eth0 and it loads and the kernel is happy no errors no warnings. Still no connectivity. my ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 look like this: ONBOOT=yes SERVICE=ipv4-static IP=10.0.2.15 GATEWAY=10.0.2.0 PREFIX=8

Re: ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 or ifcfg-eth0 why the difference

2010-02-09 Thread stosss
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: YES!!! (fist pump in the air) I have connectivity! A little early to get excited. I have eth0 and it loads and the kernel is happy no errors no warnings. Still no connectivity. my ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 look

Re: ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 or ifcfg-eth0 why the difference

2010-02-09 Thread stosss
Kernel IP routing table Destination Gateway Genmask Flags Metric Ref Use Iface 10.0.2.0 0.0.0.0 255.255.255.0 U0 0 0 eth0 0.0.0.0 10.0.2.20.0.0.0 UG 0 0 0 eth0 --

Re: ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 or ifcfg-eth0 why the difference

2010-02-09 Thread stosss
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 7:19 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 1:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I see what the problem is.  The gateway is OK for /8, but wrong for /24.  IN a /24 network, the .0 address is the network address

Re: ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 or ifcfg-eth0 why the difference

2010-02-09 Thread stosss
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: When I built LFS on a real machine connected to a real router and not in a virtual environment I did not have any problem establishing a network connection. I know what my current problem is. I just can't

Re: ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 or ifcfg-eth0 why the difference

2010-02-09 Thread stosss
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:58 PM, stosss sto...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 11:34 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: When I built LFS on a real machine connected to a real router and not in a virtual environment I did not have any problem establishing

Re: ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 or ifcfg-eth0 why the difference

2010-02-09 Thread stosss
On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:12 AM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: Not needed. I just learned about bridged. It puts my VM on the same network as my real machines. I know the information on that network already. I just edited the necessary network config files on the VM

Re: ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 or ifcfg-eth0 why the difference

2010-02-08 Thread stosss
asking because I have been googling trying to find a solution to my other thread about networks in VirtualBox. I was searching because I was comparing my other VMs to see if I could figure out how they got set up right and what exactly was in the config files for those distro VMs. You must

Re: ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 or ifcfg-eth0 why the difference

2010-02-08 Thread stosss
$ lsmod Here is the driver I need pcnet32                31204  0 But I am having a hard time finding the source code to build it. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: ifconfig.eth0/ipv4 or ifcfg-eth0 why the difference

2010-02-08 Thread stosss
On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:39 AM, stosss sto...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Feb 9, 2010 at 2:32 AM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: stosss wrote: When looking at the VM settings for the VMs the network adapter is set to NAT and the adapter type is: PCnet-FAST III (Am79C973) so the VMs

Re: gcc-4.1.2 pass 2 - help?

2010-02-07 Thread stosss
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:14 PM, Kyle Rush k...@cyber-rush.org wrote: hi everyone. I am a total newbie to Linux (of any kind, not just LFS) and took this on in order to learn about Linux and computers in general. The book I am using is version 6.3 . I am currently doing gcc-4.1.2 pass 2 and

Re: Making progress - until GCC pass 2

2010-02-07 Thread stosss
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 12:19 PM, David Shaw dj.s...@btconnect.com wrote: Well, I've given up on 6.3 as I cannot get glibc to compile and I'm having problems downloading all the files needed for 6.6-rc1, so I decided to persevere with 6.5. I solved the glibc problems I was having with 6.5 (my

Re: lfs-dev(rc1)-book network connection

2010-02-07 Thread stosss
I installed wget 1.12 for test my netconn...but i can't download any files, i configured it like as in the lfs-book, only i changed network-parametres, ip,gateway, and more, and my connection name is not eth0, it's sit0, i configured /etc/resolv.conf by setting dns-ip-addresses, and wget tells

Re: lfs-dev(rc1)-book network connection

2010-02-07 Thread stosss
2010/2/7 Dmitry Sokolov sokolo...@inbox.ru: command: ip route list result ok, but i can't ping router and anyother hosts -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page see answers to

Re: saving info on livecd?

2010-02-07 Thread stosss
On Sun, Feb 7, 2010 at 11:01 PM, Jordan Peters daweef...@gmail.com wrote: i'm using the ubuntu linux livecd to make my 6.5 lfs install and i'm wondering how to save the variables and such i make during the book. like is there a way to save the info created during section 4.4 while setting up

Network problem kind of similar to another poster

2010-02-07 Thread stosss
I built LFS 6.5 using the LFS 6.5 book and files using LFS 6.3 LiveCD r2160 image as the host in a VM running on VirtualBox. From the beginning of the 2nd chapter to the end of the 9th chapter everything went fine. The new LFS 6.5 booted 1st time. But, it said that eth0 does not exist. I ran ip

Re: How do you interpet gcc test results?

2010-02-06 Thread stosss
A few unexpected failures cannot always be avoided. The GCC developers are usually aware of these issues, but have not resolved them yet. In particular, the libmudflap tests are known be particularly problematic as a result of a bug in GCC (http://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=20003).

Re: Has anyone been able to build LFS on a 64bit system?

2010-02-05 Thread stosss
client, please do check before posting. If you don't know how to turn HTML off, see http://www.expita.com/nomime.html. All posts which That link gave me a 404 error. LFS team you need to fix your FAQ. That link came from the FAQ documentation. --

Re: Has anyone been able to build LFS on a 64bit system?

2010-02-04 Thread stosss
Can you access this page? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/#netiquette xsystem, Here is the page that you apparently did not read. Here are some practical points of etiquette. They include only those items that will draw mention if missed. Those who've been around project mailing lists

Re: Finished First Pass

2010-02-02 Thread stosss
On Tuesday, February 2, 2010, brown wrap gra...@yahoo.com wrote: I guess its still not quite clear to me why we take two passes on various pieces of software to complete the install. Another question I have, i thought I read somewhere that 7.0 is meant for 64 bit release. I'm installing on

Re: OK, I stumbled again on glibc

2010-02-01 Thread stosss
When I run configure it says critical programs are too old or missing. I am logged into that window as user lfs. I looked at the environament and compared it to root's env and the paths looks the same. But if I run configure as root, I get no complaints. Here is the error, it looks to me

Re: OK, I stumbled again on glibc

2010-02-01 Thread stosss
I think I followed the setup steps. Here is my lfs environment: lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/6.4/glibc-build$ env LDFLAGS=-L/usr/local/lib TERM=xterm OLDPWD=/mnt/lfs/sources/6.4/glibc-2.10.1 LC_ALL=POSIX LD_LIBRARY_PATH=/usr/local/lib LFS=/mnt/lfs PATH=/tools/bin:/bin:/usr/bin

Re: Unable to even start compiling

2010-01-30 Thread stosss
I am using the LFS Live CD, version 6.3-r2145 and, because this is my first attempt at building my own system, I'm sandboxing it by installing to a Virtualbox VM.  Working from the LFS book version 6.5 (actually, re-reading this email before posting, could that be the problem? A slight

Re: Xorg problems, with libX11.so

2010-01-28 Thread stosss
thanks ,but my English is so so。 I don't even know what language you were writing in before so you are doing better than me. yes my xorg is working. you can with google Translate Goggle Translate only works if you know what language to translate from... As I said before I have no clue what

Re: Inetutils and ifconfig

2010-01-27 Thread stosss
On Wed, Jan 27, 2010 at 4:36 AM, Johnneylee Rollins johnneylee.roll...@gmail.com wrote: Hey, is it possible to use ifconfig to configure my network interfaces? If I can, do I just leave off --disable-ifconfig in the configure step? If this isn't the best decision, I would love to know why. I'm

Re: Xorg problems, with libX11.so

2010-01-23 Thread stosss
2010/1/23 xsystem xsys...@gmail.com: thanks ,but my English is so so。 I don't even know what language you were writing in before so you are doing better than me. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: Xorg problems, with libX11.so

2010-01-22 Thread stosss
2010/1/22 xsystem xsys...@gmail.com: xorg没有装好吧,按照BLFS手册试试,我的已经安装完成了!不知道哪个库没有弄好! 2010/1/20 stosss sto...@gmail.com You are Better off posting on the BLFS support list. Use English and don't top post. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: Xorg problems, with libX11.so

2010-01-19 Thread stosss
You are Better off posting on the BLFS support list. On Wednesday, January 20, 2010, Joao Henriques j...@netmadeira.com wrote: Ok, I'm getting this erros when making and installing xorg libs, in libXpm-3.5.8 package: Making all in sxpm make[2]: Entering directory

Re: Stuck at 5.7.1

2010-01-03 Thread stosss
All I want is to build a minimal Linux system for embedded development. Why is LFS so complicated? Is there another alternative? I don't see why the authors of LFS don’t create a liveCD with the independent tool chain ready to go and delete Ch 5. Why put a newbie like me thru all this?

Re: How to script automate unTAR of packages

2009-12-31 Thread stosss
On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 8:47 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Andres P wrote: On Mon, Dec 28, 2009 at 2:19 PM, Mikie k...@mikienet.com wrote: What am I doing wrong? You are probably using GNU tar, so tar xvf works for all tarballs. And you also don't need to do such a long

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread stosss
If you are not experienced at doing this, when in doubt start over. Under certain mistakes and/or errors it is possible to complete the book and even boot the new system only to find out you messed up and have to start over any way because what you have doesn't work and can't be fixed. The voice

Re: Knoppix is missing the patch command

2009-12-16 Thread stosss
On Wed, Dec 16, 2009 at 3:27 AM, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote: On Wed, 2009-12-16 at 00:34 -0500, Chris Staub wrote: I believe you can install extra stuff while using a livecd - just use whatever its package manager installation commands are (I believe Knoppix is based on Debian so

Re: LFS 6.3 Chapter 6.12, GCC-4.1.2 startfiles check fails -- no output

2009-12-16 Thread stosss
On 12/15/09, Pixel 73 wrote: How can I analyze which of my previous steps went wrong? Did the make command really complete without errors? I always try to keep a log containing all the output because the screen scrolls by, and later, I wish I could see the errors that went by so that I

Re: Knoppix is missing the patch command

2009-12-15 Thread stosss
On Tue, Dec 15, 2009 at 11:54 PM, Jonathan Wilkes jancs...@yahoo.com wrote: Hello,     I'm using the Knoppix live cd v. 6.2 and reading LFS v. 6.5.  I've made it all the way to level II.5, and now I'm on pass 2 of GCC (5.10.1) and now Knoppix is telling me the patch command is not found. Is

Re: Knoppix is missing the patch command

2009-12-15 Thread stosss
uh,I have never use a live cd to build my LFS,it too troublesome! maybe you should install a linux distro . It is much better. Why do you say that? Just curious, because i used the LFS LiveCD 6.3 to build my first LFS 6.5 build. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: place for killall

2009-12-10 Thread stosss
On Thu, Dec 10, 2009 at 3:40 PM, Alexander Kozlov akoz...@nada.kth.se wrote: psmisc 22.8 configured with --prefix=/usr installs killall to /usr/bin. No problem to leave it there, as debian does, but I move it to /bin to keep my old init scripts unchanged. Anyway, the command ln -sv killall

LFS book additional information suggestion

2009-12-07 Thread stosss
The information that is in chapter 2 of the BLFS book should also be in the LFS book. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

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