[lfs-support] LiveCD to use for building LFS 7.2

2012-12-15 Thread Дмитрий Соколов
Hi, Can you help me, what a LiveCD i can use to build LFS 7.2 without installing any packages. -- Thanks, Dmitrij.-- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] LiveCD to use for building LFS 7.2

2012-12-15 Thread xinglp
2012/12/15 Дмитрий Соколов sokolo...@inbox.ru Hi, Can you help me, what a LiveCD i can use to build LFS 7.2 without installing any packages. -- Thanks, Dmitrij. You can try my lfs(blfs) system, it can do live boot, but it's not a livecd. http://sf.net/projects/smartutils/files/lfs_linux

[lfs-support] [Query] - Pre-requities - LiveCD 7.2 ?

2012-10-09 Thread san
Hi colleagues, I have planned to start Linux from scratch using your guides. I have gone through few pages and it's very interesting! So I have planned to implement the same in my system as well. But here I got problem before I start .. This could be basic question but could not find the

Re: [lfs-support] [Query] - Pre-requities - LiveCD 7.2 ?

2012-10-09 Thread Bruce Dubbs
san wrote: I have planned to start Linux from scratch using your guides. I have gone through few pages and it's very interesting! So I have planned to implement the same in my system as well. But here I got problem before I start .. This could be basic question but could not find the

[lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread Wally Lepore
Hi Members, I do hope this is the correct mailing list. My question pertains to LFS and the LFS LiveCD but the mailing list for the LiveCD no longer appears active. Thank you for taking my question please. I've been studying Linux for awhile now and would like to utilize the LFS system to build

Re: [lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread spiky
On 20/09/12 18:55, Wally Lepore wrote: Hi Members, I do hope this is the correct mailing list. My question pertains to LFS and the LFS LiveCD but the mailing list for the LiveCD no longer appears active. Thank you for taking my question please. I've been studying Linux for awhile now

Re: [lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread Wally Lepore
this is the correct mailing list. My question pertains to LFS and the LFS LiveCD but the mailing list for the LiveCD no longer appears active. Thank you for taking my question please. I've been studying Linux for awhile now and would like to utilize the LFS system to build a Linux distro

Re: [lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread William Harrington
On Sep 20, 2012, at 12:55 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: Can you please tell me if the LFS LiveCD is still a valid tool to utilize in learning the how to of building a linux distro. I read that the LFS LiveCD is no longer supported and the LiveCD is not available for version 7.0 and later. I

Re: [lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread Wally Lepore
Hi William, Thank you very much for the updated LiveCD. I went to the link you provided and read that the updated version 6.3 is an experimental LiveCD which may need tweaking, especially with the kernel options. I am starting fresh with a distro build and would kindly like to know

Re: [lfs-support] LFS vs. LFS LiveCD

2012-09-20 Thread William Harrington
On Sep 20, 2012, at 16:44 PM, Wally Lepore wrote: LiveCD which may need tweaking, especially with the kernel options. Mostly for hardware. Most drivers are modules. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Re: [lfs-support] Updated 6.3 livecd for LFS 7.2

2012-09-14 Thread xinglp
2012/9/14 William Harrington berzerk...@cox.net: Greetings all, Tonight, I updated the current livecd updated for 7.1 for 7.2. The livecd has an updated e2fsprogs so that users can create and edit ext4 filesystems (e2fsprogs 1.41.13 and later). The 7.2 book is with the livecd and x86 has

[lfs-support] Updated 6.3 livecd for LFS 7.2

2012-09-13 Thread William Harrington
Greetings all, Tonight, I updated the current livecd updated for 7.1 for 7.2. The livecd has an updated e2fsprogs so that users can create and edit ext4 filesystems (e2fsprogs 1.41.13 and later). The 7.2 book is with the livecd and x86 has no source and source isos. x86_64 has only

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

2011-10-26 Thread Steve Crosby
resending as previous is awaiting moderation as I forgot to re-join ML before posting --- The LFS LiveCD is listed in the 1.1 introduction as valid to use in building LFS as a host distribution, with a caveat about newer hardware not being detected. However, the kernel version of the LFS LiveCD

livecd and lfs 6.8

2011-07-04 Thread Bill Cunningham
I am glad I burned the live cd. What it's directions have to say are very different in some places than the book. Things actually work now. Bill -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Have you tried building LFS with LFS-LiveCD?

2011-06-17 Thread Webmaster
I think it's good to use LiveCD to build LFS. You don't need to install Host System (Ubuntu, etc.), just booting from the disk instead. And LiveCD also provides source codes, so you needn't download it.-- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: Have you tried building LFS with LFS-LiveCD?

2011-06-17 Thread Mike McCarty
Webmaster wrote: I think it's good to use LiveCD to build LFS. You don't need to install Host System (Ubuntu, etc.), just booting from the disk instead. And LiveCD also provides source codes, so you needn't download it. To answer your question: I have successfully built an LFS system from

Re: a livecd based on LFS SVN-20110330

2011-04-05 Thread bsquared
On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 7:09 AM, xinglp xin...@gmail.com wrote: I created it by learning the Official LFS LiveCD, but my version  has no desktop. jhalfs can run in it. With pkgs ssh, apache, svn, php, nginx, sqlite, mysql, gdb, valgrind Introduction http://smartutils.sf.net

Re: a livecd based on LFS SVN-20110330

2011-04-05 Thread xinglp
2011/4/6 bsquared bwcod...@gmail.com: On Sat, Apr 2, 2011 at 7:09 AM, xinglp xin...@gmail.com wrote: I created it by learning the Official LFS LiveCD, but my version  has no desktop. jhalfs can run in it. With pkgs ssh, apache, svn, php, nginx, sqlite, mysql, gdb, valgrind

a livecd based on LFS SVN-20110330

2011-04-02 Thread xinglp
I created it by learning the Official LFS LiveCD, but my version has no desktop. jhalfs can run in it. With pkgs ssh, apache, svn, php, nginx, sqlite, mysql, gdb, valgrind Introduction http://smartutils.sf.net/livecd.html Downlowd: http://st.yesit.tk/smartlinux-2011-0402-i386.iso http

Re: a livecd based on LFS SVN-20110330

2011-04-02 Thread xinglp
32bits and 64bits together http://sourceforge.net/projects/smartutils/files/smartlinux-2011-0402-dual.iso/download http://st.yesit.tk/smartlinux-2011-0402-dual.iso -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2011-01-25 Thread Someone Somebody
with it. I guess the issues stem from the LFS LiveCD being outdated, if it will be updated I guess the issues will disappear. On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 9:59 PM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.netwrote: Someone Somebody wrote: I'm doing it inside VirtualBox and I want a LiveCD that supports

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2011-01-20 Thread Someone Somebody
I'm doing it inside VirtualBox and I want a LiveCD that supports VirtualBox's absoulute pointing device that is a feature that allows you to use mouse pointer integration even without the guest additions installed which is quite useful when working from a LiveCD. The LFS LiveCD glitches

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2011-01-20 Thread Mike McCarty
Someone Somebody wrote: I'm doing it inside VirtualBox and I want a LiveCD that supports VirtualBox's absoulute pointing device that is a feature that allows you I'm not familiar with that feature. to use mouse pointer integration even without the guest additions installed which is quite

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2011-01-20 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Thu, Jan 20, 2011 at 1:59 PM, Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote: Someone Somebody wrote: I'm doing it inside VirtualBox and I want a LiveCD that supports VirtualBox's absoulute pointing device that is a feature that allows you I'm not familiar with that feature. to use mouse

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2011-01-19 Thread Mike McCarty
Someone Somebody wrote: Since the LFS LiveCD is quite outdated, what would you recommend to use for building an LFS system with as minimal/no tweaking to the LiveCD required? In what sense is it outdated? Does the current build require something not on the LFS LiveCD? If not, then unless

Make a lfs livecd but shutdown-help not execute

2010-12-05 Thread xinglp
/init.d/rc 6 ca:12345:ctrlaltdel:/sbin/shutdown -t1 -a -r now su:S1:once:/sbin/sulogin sd:06:once:/usr/bin/shutdown-helper 1:2345:respawn:/bin/openvt -f -c 1 -e -w -- /usr/bin/livecd-login 2:2345:respawn:/bin/openvt -f -c 2 -e -w -- /usr/bin/livecd-login 3:2345:respawn:/bin/openvt -f -c 3 -e -w

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2010-11-26 Thread xinglp
I actually used the hint to make a Live CD for each of my systems from LFS. Do you mean the hints below? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfscd-remastering-howto.txt http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/initramfs.txt --

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2010-11-25 Thread Someone Somebody
No recommendations? :( On Fri, Nov 19, 2010 at 9:11 PM, Someone Somebody temp4...@gmail.comwrote: I'm looking for a more clear recommendation, since I'm using this under a VM it's quite low on memory (I give it a 512M ram+2G swap on my 2G ram system), and as such I need a light LiveCD

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2010-11-25 Thread Andre Keller
clear recommendation, since I'm using this under a VM it's quite low on memory (I give it a 512M ram+2G swap on my 2G ram system), and as such I need a light LiveCD, and can you please list any modifications neccesary to make it work, as in additional packages, needing to compile

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2010-11-25 Thread Matthias Feichtinger
Am Thursday 25 November 2010 11:35:24 schrieb Someone Somebody: No recommendations? :( Yes of course! It's German and much more actual than any other here. And you could build it by yourself too. Jst go to serlfservix.de and have a look at molli :-) -- Der Versand unsignierter und

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2010-11-25 Thread Someone Somebody
I don't speak german... I'd rather something in English Thanks anyhow. On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Matthias Feichtinger a...@vienna.atwrote: Am Thursday 25 November 2010 11:35:24 schrieb Someone Somebody: No recommendations? :( Yes of course! It's German and much more actual than any

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2010-11-25 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 6:14 AM, Someone Somebody temp4...@gmail.com wrote: I don't speak german... I'd rather something in English Thanks anyhow. On Thu, Nov 25, 2010 at 1:41 PM, Matthias Feichtinger a...@vienna.at wrote: Am Thursday 25 November 2010 11:35:24 schrieb Someone Somebody:

Recommended LiveCD?

2010-11-16 Thread Someone Somebody
Since the LFS LiveCD is quite outdated, what would you recommend to use for building an LFS system with as minimal/no tweaking to the LiveCD required? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2010-11-16 Thread Matthias Feichtinger
Am Tuesday 16 November 2010 09:13:16 schrieb Someone Somebody: Since the LFS LiveCD is quite outdated, what would you recommend to use for building an LFS system with as minimal/no tweaking to the LiveCD required? There is only a German version called molli -- Der Versand unsignierter und

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2010-11-16 Thread William Immendorf
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Someone Somebody temp4...@gmail.com wrote: Since the LFS LiveCD is quite outdated, what would you recommend to use for building an LFS system with as minimal/no tweaking to the LiveCD required? I use aptosid (formally sidux) for building my LFS system

Re: Recommended LiveCD?

2010-11-16 Thread Stuart Stegall
On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:32 PM, William Immendorf will.immend...@gmail.com wrote: On Tue, Nov 16, 2010 at 2:13 AM, Someone Somebody temp4...@gmail.com wrote: Since the LFS LiveCD is quite outdated, what would you recommend to use for building an LFS system with as minimal/no tweaking

Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread Dahai Guo
Hello, I am building LFS 6.5 via LiveCD on VirtualBox. Now I am at chap 4 which talks about adding users. Everything went fine except that the added user was gone when I shut down the machine and restarted it. I used cat /etc/passwd to list the users and did not find the newly added user. Any

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread William Immendorf
On Tue, Aug 31, 2010 at 6:45 AM, Dahai Guo guo...@yahoo.com wrote: I am building LFS 6.5 via LiveCD on VirtualBox. Now I am at chap 4 which talks about adding users. Everything went fine except that the added user was gone when I shut down the machine and restarted it. I used cat /etc/passwd

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread kess . alexander
@linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Adding user on LiveCD -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread William Immendorf
when I have to shutdown, I launch the scripts and everything is setup... Please don't top post on this list, even through it might be hard with your Blackberry, Anyway, the thing you are talking about would be a hard task to do, but at least Puppy allows you to save your Livecd state, but other

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread Smartboy
Puppy allows you to save your Livecd state, but other than that, don't reboot on Livecds. Actually, I don't think it'd be as hard as one would think, though depending on how much reliability it may not be the best. Already, LiveCDs create RAM disks which store any modified files in RAM (usually

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread linux fan
The live cd has the user jhalfs which is already set up in sudoers (sudo). Once booted and at the shell, you can become jhalfs with: su - jhalfs Then can get into graphical desktop with: startxfce4 In the instructions that reference user lfs, substitute the user jhalfs I think that may work ok.

Re: Adding user on LiveCD

2010-08-31 Thread Tony Sauri
On Tue, 31 Aug 2010 23:45, Dahai Guo wrote: Hello, I am building LFS 6.5 via LiveCD on VirtualBox. Now I am at chap 4 which talks about adding users. Everything went fine except that the added user was gone when I shut down the machine and restarted it. I used cat /etc/passwd to list

LiveCD Remastering to LiveUSB Key

2010-04-13 Thread Liam Fitzpatrick
Hello, I am not sure if this is a lfs question or specifically a livecd question. I am trying to remaster the lfs 6.3 cd to contain 6.6 packages and a resized root fs. I am reading http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfscd-remastering-howto.txt Along with: http

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

2010-02-23 Thread Mike McCarty
stosss wrote: 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

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

2010-02-23 Thread brown wrap
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 with a keyboard or mouse. Mike When you say hub, do you mean an external hub? No, I don't have an

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

2010-02-22 Thread Mike McCarty
brown wrap wrote: I don't have any problem in recompiling the kernel, but I don't want to end up with the same result. I have a version of KNOPPIX 6.1 and the usb keyboard doesn't work on it either, but as I said it does work on 6.6-rc1 and Centos 5.4. KNOPPIX is built from Debian, and

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

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

2010-02-16 Thread brown wrap
CONNECT Feb 16 09:40:21 guajome-dome kernel: [ 27.544021] usb 1-2: khubd timed out on ep0out len=0/0 Feb 16 09:40:21 guajome-dome kernel: [ 32.755021] usb 1-2: khubd timed out on ep0out len=0/0 It looks to me like none of the usb ports are working, but they work under the LiveCD, version 6.3

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

2010-02-16 Thread brown wrap
--- On Tue, 2/16/10, stosss sto...@gmail.com wrote: Did you build USB support into your kernel? I thought I had built usb support. I find modules in the /boot/grub directory: [r...@localhost modprobe.d]# ls -l /mnt/lfs/boot/grub/|grep usb -rw-r--r-- 1 root root 3232 Feb 15 05:57

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

2010-02-16 Thread brown wrap
It looks to me like you might not have everything you need supported in your kernel. You might want to configure and install the kernel again. Checking the config a lot closer this time. I found this line in the .config file: CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT=y I don't have any problem in recompiling

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

2010-02-16 Thread Andrew Benton
On 16/02/10 20:35, brown wrap wrote: It looks to me like you might not have everything you need supported in your kernel. You might want to configure and install the kernel again. Checking the config a lot closer this time. I found this line in the .config file: CONFIG_USB_SUPPORT=y

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

2010-02-16 Thread brown wrap
CONFIG_USB_HID=y Is the important option for USB input devices Andy -- Just checked, its there: root:/# cd /boot root:/boot# grep CONFIG_USB_HID * config-2.6.32.7:CONFIG_USB_HID=y config-2.6.32.7:CONFIG_USB_HIDDEV=y --

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: saving info on livecd?

2010-02-12 Thread Mike McCarty
stosss wrote: Both of your scripts could be figured out. The second one probably a lot easier and faster then the first, but would you be willing to share the details of those scripts especially the first one? Like maybe post it some where so any one that wants to take a look can. Well,

saving info on livecd?

2010-02-07 Thread Jordan Peters
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 .bash_profile and .bashrc and save the lfs user in the end of 4.3? And how

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

Re: saving info on livecd?

2010-02-07 Thread Bruce Dubbs
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 section 4.4 while setting up .bash_profile and .bashrc and save the lfs user

Re: Building a LiveCD

2009-05-21 Thread Robert A. Lerche
I recently built a custom LFS live CD for the Open Source Digital Voting Foundation. I updated the live CD makefiles to reflect LFS 6.4 (plus a few other changes) and added an application program (Pvote) and its dependencies (Python, SDL, pygame). I made it boot to the root prompt, or just run

Building a LiveCD

2009-05-20 Thread Tom Yarrish
Hey all, I'm trying to put together a bootable Linux distro for a specific purpose. I've put together the initial LFS system per the documentation, and I've (in parallel) been customizing the LiveCD LFS as well. I would like to go with the LiveCD moving forward because it will do what I

Report on JHALFS with LiveCD 6.3 r2160

2009-04-16 Thread Mike McCarty
Sorry this is longish, but I didn't want to post piecemeal as I went, with this failed and what I did, then later oh, this failed, too etc. Too much clutter. Well, I have fiddled this and that, and somewhat gotten JHALFS to work with the LiveCd as the host distribution. The first hurdle

JHALFS 2.3.1 on LiveCD 6.3 r2160 is broken

2009-04-14 Thread Mike McCarty
I have struggled for a few days, a few hours at a time, to make the JHALFS shipped on (in) the LiveCD 6.3 r2160 work, and finally decided that it is just broken. So, I went to the website, and downloaded the current jhalfs-2.3.1.tar.bz2, transferred it to the disc on the build target, and ran

Re: JHALFS 2.3.1 on LiveCD 6.3 r2160 is broken

2009-04-14 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike McCarty wrote: I have struggled for a few days, a few hours at a time, to make the JHALFS shipped on (in) the LiveCD 6.3 r2160 work, and finally decided that it is just broken. So, I went to the website, and downloaded the current jhalfs-2.3.1.tar.bz2, transferred it to the disc

Re: JHALFS 2.3.1 on LiveCD 6.3 r2160 is broken

2009-04-14 Thread Mike McCarty
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: I have struggled for a few days, a few hours at a time, to make the JHALFS shipped on (in) the LiveCD 6.3 r2160 work, and finally decided that it is just broken. So, I went to the website, and downloaded the current jhalfs-2.3.1.tar.bz2, transferred

JHALFS with QEMU 6.3 LiveCD Fails

2009-03-30 Thread Mike McCarty
I've created a small (I now realize too small, but that's not the problem) QEMU disc and am running the 6.3 r2160 build of the LiveCD as QEMU's CD-ROM. I configured and started JHALFS, which ran for a while, then gets an unrecoverable error. I'm trying to build LFS 6.4 from the 6.4 book. Here's

Re: JHALFS with QEMU 6.3 LiveCD Fails

2009-03-30 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Mike McCarty wrote: make[1]: Entering directory `/media/hda1/build/sources/linux-2.6.27.4' make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/hda1/build/sources/linux-2.6.27.4' cp: cannot stat `../kernel-config': No such file or directory So, it looks like a required file is not present. I don't recall

Re: JHALFS with QEMU 6.3 LiveCD Fails

2009-03-30 Thread genericmaillists
On Monday 30 March 2009 14:38:56 Mike McCarty wrote: I've created a small (I now realize too small, but that's not the problem) QEMU disc and am running the 6.3 r2160 build of the LiveCD as QEMU's CD-ROM. I configured and started JHALFS, which ran for a while, then gets an unrecoverable error

Re: JHALFS with QEMU 6.3 LiveCD Fails

2009-03-30 Thread Mike McCarty
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: make[1]: Entering directory `/media/hda1/build/sources/linux-2.6.27.4' make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/hda1/build/sources/linux-2.6.27.4' cp: cannot stat `../kernel-config': No such file or directory So, it looks like a required file is not

Re: JHALFS with QEMU 6.3 LiveCD Fails

2009-03-30 Thread Mike McCarty
Bruce Dubbs wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: make[1]: Entering directory `/media/hda1/build/sources/linux-2.6.27.4' make[1]: Leaving directory `/media/hda1/build/sources/linux-2.6.27.4' cp: cannot stat `../kernel-config': No such file or directory So, it looks like a required file is not

Re: JHALFS with QEMU 6.3 LiveCD Fails

2009-03-30 Thread Tony Sauri
On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:22, Mike McCarty wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: So, I still don't know what to do about this. The book does not describe building that file in either Chapter 5 or Chapter 6. Mike The point Bruce refers to is covered in the jhalfs 2.3.1 README file. Tony --

Re: JHALFS with QEMU 6.3 LiveCD Fails

2009-03-30 Thread Mike McCarty
Tony Sauri wrote: On Tue, 31 Mar 2009 10:22, Mike McCarty wrote: Mike McCarty wrote: So, I still don't know what to do about this. The book does not describe building that file in either Chapter 5 or Chapter 6. Mike The point Bruce refers to is covered in the jhalfs 2.3.1 README file.

Unmounting the LiveCD after booting from it

2009-03-28 Thread Angel Tsankov
Hi, Can I unmount the LFS LiveCD after booting from it? Regards, Angel Tsankov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

LiveCD 6.3, LFS 6.4, PATA Drive

2009-01-27 Thread Ryan Isaacs
Got my LFS 6.4 install finished, rebooted, and pinging into the Internet :) I did have a complication that I thought I would note for others. I used the LiveCD 6.3, where my IDE (PATA) hard drive shows up as /dev/hda. However, in the kernel used for LFS 6.4, this becomes mapped as /dev/sda. So

Re: LiveCD LFS book 6.3 chapter 5 questions

2008-11-28 Thread Ralph Porter
From the What its worth department DJ captured the issue. I had the exact same experience. I came into LFS following the instructions verbatim. Rough time the first 2 or three times through. But like he says, once you get your arms around the style of how its written, it makes sense. I

LiveCD LFS book 6.3 chapter 5 questions

2008-11-27 Thread Stealth
I am running from the lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2160 on a box with a blank 40 GB hard drive. That box as actually a VM running inside VirtualBox which is running on a physical install of PCLinuxOS 2007. The CD is working nicely in this setup. I have successfully completed everything up to chapter 5

Re: LiveCD LFS book 6.3 chapter 5 questions

2008-11-27 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Stealth wrote: Does chapter 5.1 and 5.2 actually give instruction that is supposed to be done at that time? This is not clear to me. Yes. The first big red (okay, pink) note labeled 'Important' in section 5.1 answers your question. Read it carefully and try again. What I haven't found is

Re: LiveCD LFS book 6.3 chapter 5 questions

2008-11-27 Thread DJ Lucas
Stealth wrote: I have read the book from start to chapter 5.3.1 about 6 or 7 times trying to figure out what I missed. I don't see anything unless 5.1 and 5.2 actually have steps that I am supposed to do. 5.3 When I do this in chapter 5.3.1 mkdir -v ../binutils-build cd

Re: LiveCD LFS book 6.3 chapter 5 questions

2008-11-27 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
DJ Lucas wrote: Stealth wrote: I have read the book from start to chapter 5.3.1 about 6 or 7 times trying to figure out what I missed. I don't see anything unless 5.1 and 5.2 actually have steps that I am supposed to do. 5.3 He said he was using the 6.3 book, which is why I said

Re: LiveCD LFS book 6.3 chapter 5 questions

2008-11-27 Thread Stealth
On Thursday 27 November 2008 10:52:44 pm Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Stealth wrote: The instructions don't say where to extract the binutils file. But in 5.3.1 it says to create: mkdir -v ../binutils-build cd ../binutils-build Where exactly was I supposed to be when I was supposed to do

Re: LiveCD LFS book 6.3 chapter 5 questions

2008-11-27 Thread DJ Lucas
Stealth wrote: It sure would help if this chapter was made a lot more clear by adding some more information. At some point in the future after I know what I am doing with building my own OS from the book I will be glad to help make the confusing steps easier to see and understand.

Re: Help: Newbie questions about making livecd

2008-10-10 Thread Valter Douglas Lisbôa Jr.
Em Friday 10 October 2008 00:10:25 Lee Amy escreveu: Hello, I'm a newbie at LFS and I'm going to build my own LiveCD by this great project. Anyway, I hope you could tell me what I need at first. I didn't find the LiveCD Books so I wonder what book should I read at once? The LFS or else

Re: Help: Newbie questions about making livecd

2008-10-10 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Fri, Oct 10, 2008 at 9:26 AM, Valter Douglas Lisbôa Jr. [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Em Friday 10 October 2008 00:10:25 Lee Amy escreveu: Hello, I'm a newbie at LFS and I'm going to build my own LiveCD by this great project. Anyway, I hope you could tell me what I need at first. I didn't find

Help: Newbie questions about making livecd

2008-10-09 Thread Lee Amy
Hello, I'm a newbie at LFS and I'm going to build my own LiveCD by this great project. Anyway, I hope you could tell me what I need at first. I didn't find the LiveCD Books so I wonder what book should I read at once? The LFS or else? Which book describes making LiveCD? Thank you very much

using virtualbox to run LiveCD

2008-07-25 Thread Scott Castaline
Is it possible to build LFS on a VM particularly VirtualBox-1.6.2 using the LiveCD as the Host under VBox? Any recommended initial settings for the Host/Guest configurations? Also the Guest Additions for Linux would not be useful until well into BLFS? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman

reg. LFS 6.3 LiveCD - not mounting LiveCD

2008-05-22 Thread Perumal, Muralitharan (IE10)
Hi, I downloaded the .iso image of the latest LiveCD [lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2160.iso - kernel version 2.6.22.5], and wrote it into a CD. But when I tried to install the same on my PC (intel motherboard) from that LiveCD, it hangs at PCI: Probing PCI hardware (bus 00) and does not come up. So, I

LiveCD ?

2008-03-24 Thread Jean-Sebastien
Can we do a LiveCD after building our LFS and BLFS ? If yes, how :P Thanks -- Jean-Sébastien Provost --- Conception de site web Hébergement Service de courriel --- Courriel Perso : [EMAIL PROTECTED] Cellulaire : (418) 230-9855 -- http

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-28 Thread Hugo Grauls
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: * Does the community still want the LiveCD project? (Consider that a couple of the arguments above imply that the LFS LiveCD by its nature is degrading the quality of LFS) * If so, is the community prepared to lend help in keeping

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-26 Thread Wit
nick levandoski wrote: snip Those were good comments. ps I would be glad to help with the LFS LiveCD project, the problem is im not an expert but i did learn alot. Ex=has been spurt=drip under pressure. ;-) So don't worry, your future expertise is ahead of, not behind, you. snip

What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: * Does the community still want the LiveCD project? (Consider that a couple of the arguments above imply that the LFS LiveCD by its nature is degrading the quality of LFS) * If so, is the community prepared to lend help in keeping it alive? Thank you all for your

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread support
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Jeremy Huntwork wrote: * Does the community still want the LiveCD project? (Consider that a couple of the arguments above imply that the LFS LiveCD by its nature is degrading the quality of LFS) * If so, is the community prepared to lend help in keeping it alive

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-26 Thread Scott
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:46:45PM +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote: What I wished to have is a simple, clean BootCD with no SchnickSchnack (how is that in English? Maybe extra stuff) on it I think the best English idiom would be bells and whistles. But thanks for the deutsche (?) idiom! I like it.

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread J. Greenlees
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: ~snip~ I could let this thread continue for some more time, but I get the impression that the ratio of votes will continue approximately the same. as with the last time this subject came up :) seems that while majority like the livecd project, getting more support

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: So we see at least two non-empty camps. One wants a strictly minimal CD, and one wants packages beyond it. The most democratic solution would be to make two CDs (and that's, in fact, the origin of the talks about package management), but we don't have enough

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread Laurent HOAREAU
Jeremy Huntwork a écrit : Jeremy Huntwork wrote: * Does the community still want the LiveCD project? (Consider that a couple of the arguments above imply that the LFS LiveCD by its nature is degrading the quality of LFS) * If so, is the community prepared to lend help in keeping

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread support
Laurent HOAREAU wrote: Jeremy Huntwork a écrit : Jeremy Huntwork wrote: * Does the community still want the LiveCD project? (Consider that a couple of the arguments above imply that the LFS LiveCD by its nature is degrading the quality of LFS

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
support wrote: Multiple 'windows' don't require X, personally i logon to 2 or 3 virtual terminals, carry out the lfs build work in terminal 1 and have a copy of the book open via lynx in terminal 2, then i can simply select with the mouse to highlight and right click in VT1 to paste. To open

LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-25 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hello Everyone, It has recently been suggested to me that the LFS LiveCD project be killed. The main arguments for this are, essentially: 1) It is currently unmaintained 2) It removes the essential prerequisite of being able to configure a Linux system 3) It leads to less testing from other

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-25 Thread Howard_apfc6
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: It has recently been suggested to me that the LFS LiveCD project be killed. I need to know two things: * Does the community still want the LiveCD project? * If so, is the community prepared to lend help in keeping it alive? I can only speak for myself, but I

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-25 Thread Alexander E. Patrakov
Howard_apfc6 wrote: - Seems like the ultimate build platform for newbs. That's exactly what I am against. LiveCD users create 90% of support requests. Noobs (not to be confused with newbs) should be filtered out, e.g., by telling them to install and configure a real distro. Besides, the LFS

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-25 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Howard_apfc6 wrote: - Seems like the ultimate build platform for newbs. That's exactly what I am against. LiveCD users create 90% of support requests. Noobs (not to be confused with newbs) should be filtered out, e.g., by telling them to install

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