[lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread William Darryl Jackson
As embarrassing as it is to admit, I never appreciated that there is a difference between a C compiler, and C++, I assumed gcc would provide it and was wrong. So, when I went back to the beginning previously it was because I got confused about the folder permissions. I created the user lfs,

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread Pierre Labastie
Le 11/01/2014 16:33, William Darryl Jackson a écrit : Now I find-out that g++ is not on my system, and thus c++. I install the program and decide to remove the ../gcc-build folder to reconfigure gcc from that point forward. I have switched back to the $lfs user but when I: mkdir -v

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread William Darryl Jackson
On 01/11/2014 01:24 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 11/01/2014 16:33, William Darryl Jackson a écrit : Now I find-out that g++ is not on my system, and thus c++. I install the program and decide to remove the ../gcc-build folder to reconfigure gcc from that point forward. I have switched back

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread William Darryl Jackson
I never answered your question: after doing the export LFS=/mnt/lfs; ls -ld $LFS/sources says directory not found, from root. I added a label to the 'partition' and now I can view the folders from my file manager... but still not accessible in terminal mode. Thanks William On 01/11/2014

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread David Kredba
Could you please post to here output of a mount command started in your Debian konsole/terminal and output of echo $LFS? 2014/1/11 William Darryl Jackson wm.djack...@comcast.net: I never answered your question: after doing the export LFS=/mnt/lfs; ls -ld $LFS/sources says directory not found,

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread William Darryl Jackson
Yes, mount sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) proc on /proc type proc (rw,nosuid,nodev,noexec,relatime) udev on /dev type devtmpfs (rw,relatime,size=10240k,nr_inodes=160427,mode=755) devpts on /dev/pts type devpts (rw,nosuid,noexec,relatime,gid=5,mode=620,ptmxmode=000)

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread Chris Staub
On 01/11/14 14:25, William Darryl Jackson wrote: Yes, mount /dev/sdb2 on /media/lfs type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks) The echo $LFS, is constantly slipping in and out of /mnt/lfs. I have to keep doing the 'export'. Right now it returns

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread William Darryl Jackson
On 01/11/2014 02:33 PM, Chris Staub wrote: On 01/11/14 14:25, William Darryl Jackson wrote: Yes, mount /dev/sdb2 on /media/lfs type ext4 (rw,nosuid,nodev,relatime,user_xattr,barrier=1,data=ordered,uhelper=udisks) The echo $LFS, is constantly slipping in and out of /mnt/lfs. I have to

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread Chris Staub
On 01/11/14 14:47, William Darryl Jackson wrote: On 01/11/2014 02:33 PM, Chris Staub wrote: On 01/11/14 14:25, William Darryl Jackson wrote: Yes, Your output says there is something mounted on /media/lfs, yet you keep saying you are assigning LFS=/mnt/lfs. I was trying to follow the

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread William Darryl Jackson
On 01/11/2014 02:51 PM, Chris Staub wrote: On 01/11/14 14:47, William Darryl Jackson wrote: On 01/11/2014 02:33 PM, Chris Staub wrote: On 01/11/14 14:25, William Darryl Jackson wrote: Yes, Your output says there is something mounted on /media/lfs, yet you keep saying you are assigning

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread David Kredba
I am suggesting you to umount /dev/sdb2 as Debian root and mount it still as Debian root without limiting options. You will need suid files (nosuid) and device nodes (nodev) later. You can create /mnt/lfs if you like an then /bin/mount /dev/sdb2 /mnt/lfs. Then re-check by calling mount. Maybe you

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread William Darryl Jackson
On 01/11/2014 03:33 PM, David Kredba wrote: I am suggesting you to umount /dev/sdb2 as Debian root and mount it still as Debian root without limiting options. You will need suid files (nosuid) and device nodes (nodev) later. You can create /mnt/lfs if you like an then /bin/mount /dev/sdb2

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread David Kredba
Hello William, Not at all. On internal drive it should be compiling faster and you will not need to solve USB drive as a root drive tasks in addition. Please give LFS a try. It is the best way how to learn GNU/Linux philosophy/logic and its internals optimized way in my opinion. (I really do

Re: [lfs-support] folder permissions

2014-01-11 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jan 11, 2014 at 03:14:38PM -0500, William Darryl Jackson wrote: On 01/11/2014 02:51 PM, Chris Staub wrote: On 01/11/14 14:47, William Darryl Jackson wrote: On 01/11/2014 02:33 PM, Chris Staub wrote: Your output says there is something mounted on /media/lfs, yet you keep saying