Re: ch6 chroot

2006-01-19 Thread Chris Staub
mrdaniel wrote: hi chris, as for your tips ldd/tools/bin/env, i had also run that, but its still no such file or directory. I did issue the command as follows :- # env enter it worked but only in chroot. FYI I'd spent 10 days trying out the LFS, and had learnt quite a fair bit more

Re: ch6 chroot

2006-01-19 Thread mrdaniel
hi chris, before taking on the redo process once again, may i enquire about the task in ch5.5 Linux-libc-headers especially with to following line from page 37 :- cp -Rv include/asm-i386 /tools/include/asm in my earlier attempts there were errors of not able to find many header files during

live cd from blfs

2006-01-19 Thread umar
Hi, Iam new bee to linux. I started building my own live CD ...but instead of using Knoppix file system can I use my compiled file system.I will make u clear. Usually we are copying /Knoppix to our remastering directory.Instead of that can i copy my own file system( I

Re: ch6 chroot

2006-01-19 Thread Michiel Faber
Chris Staub schreef: mrdaniel wrote: hi chris, before taking on the redo process once again, may i enquire about the task in ch5.5 Linux-libc-headers especially with to following line from page 37 :- cp -Rv include/asm-i386 /tools/include/asm in my earlier attempts there were errors

Re: Fwd: ch 6 chroot na

2006-01-19 Thread Tor Olav Stava
daniel wrote: good day, i'd reached ch 6 aftet executing the chroot command string in that page, got result that chroot was not able to run the command /toos/bin/env. The chroot command string was run as root. I remember I've also got that error some time ago, and as far as my memory goes

Compiling OpenOffice 2.0.1

2006-01-19 Thread Tor Olav Stava
Just want to ask before I try this monster compile. Will this version compile with the same instructions and patches that's in the current SVN book? If I remember correctly, compiling OOo-2.0.0rc3 took about 16 hours, so it would be nice to know if it's a waste of time ;) Are there any plans

5.3 patch binutils

2006-01-19 Thread mrdaniel
hi all, I'm redoing the whole process again but at this junction, need advise as to whether is it necessary to do the patch for the binutils refering to ch 5.3, if my system is creating from the liveCD version 6.1.1.3 and the HD has NO other flavours of linux. That is the HD has only a newly

No Wireless Tools ? KDE Control Module

2006-01-19 Thread Dr. Edgar Alwers
After having succesfully installed my PROWireless programs (thanks to all helpers !), I am trying to configure my wireless network. If I go into the control center of KDE, however, I get a message: No Wireless Tools - KDE Control Module. Error executing iwconfig. WLAN configurations can only

Re: ch6 chroot

2006-01-19 Thread Chris Staub
Michiel Faber wrote: Chris Staub schreef: mrdaniel wrote: You don't need to mkdir /tools/include/asm. Just do as the book says. If the instructions didn't work then you missed something. I dont agree, i had to make the directory asm first too... It depends on your host version of mkdir.

Re: This was not all all classified as Spam ;)

2006-01-19 Thread Chris Staub
mrdaniel wrote: hi clemens, excuse me for the typo entry, my apology. thanks for directing me to use linux mail instead and get into the support list. currently i have reply from a chris and i hope that we can get towards the goal asap. I hope to clearify the one line in tch5.5 whether it

round 11

2006-01-19 Thread mrdaniel
hi everybody, this is my round 11 and took almost 6 solid hours. This time again no issue along the way, but at the end of 5.7, no message output at the dummy test. so far i follow exactly the book except at 5.7 the Adjusting of Toolchain, the script file did not prepend that /tools in the

Re: round 11

2006-01-19 Thread Chris Staub
mrdaniel wrote: hi everybody, this is my round 11 and took almost 6 solid hours. This time again no issue along the way, but at the end of 5.7, no message output at the dummy test. so far i follow exactly the book except at 5.7 the Adjusting of Toolchain, the script file did not prepend

Re: round 11

2006-01-19 Thread Chris Staub
mrdaniel wrote: hi everybody, this is my round 11 and took almost 6 solid hours. This time again no issue along the way, but at the end of 5.7, no message output at the dummy test. so far i follow exactly the book except at 5.7 the Adjusting of Toolchain, the script file did not prepend

Re: round 11

2006-01-19 Thread mrdaniel
oh oh, i saw now that the pc clock is 01:14 but the date is 01/22/06 but may i ask has that got something to do with the dummy test ? and if i reset the date/time now will it be ok or i have to start all over. ciao On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:12 pm, Chris Staub wrote: mrdaniel wrote:

Re: round 11

2006-01-19 Thread Chris Staub
mrdaniel wrote: oh oh, i saw now that the pc clock is 01:14 but the date is 01/22/06 but may i ask has that got something to do with the dummy test ? and if i reset the date/time now will it be ok or i have to start all over. ciao No, it doesn't have anything to do iwth the sanity check,

Re: round 11

2006-01-19 Thread mrdaniel
hi chris, because i read that a simple sed script is to be used so i did the following in the specs file directory :- $ cat sed_ldLinuxso2.sh EOF #!/bin/sh SPECFILE=`gcc --print-file specs` sed 's@ /lib/ld-linux.so.2@ /tools/lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' \ $SPECFILE tempspecfile mv -f

admin password for knoppix liveCD

2006-01-19 Thread mrdaniel
hi chris and all, i am sorry to have not noticed that but now i need you guys advise for the Admin's password for the knoppix liveCD. I need that to change the date/time. thanks. On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:20 pm, Chris Staub wrote: mrdaniel wrote: oh oh, i saw now that the pc clock

Re: ch6 chroot

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Darcy
mrdaniel wrote: hi chris, before taking on the redo process once again, may i enquire about the task in ch5.5 Linux-libc-headers especially with to following line from page 37 :- cp -Rv include/asm-i386 /tools/include/asm in my earlier attempts there were errors of not able to find many

Re: fresh HD and the specs file

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Darcy
mrdaniel wrote: hi all, good day, [1] may i re-iterate that I started off directly from the liveCD and the hard-disk is partitined with cfdisk and thus the HD has nothing. Hence is that a good or correct start for me. [2] here I'v an enquiry : at ch5.7 Adjusting the Toolchain, i created

Re: 5.3 patch binutils

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Darcy
mrdaniel wrote: hi all, I'm redoing the whole process again but at this junction, need advise as to whether is it necessary to do the patch for the binutils refering to ch 5.3, if my system is creating from the liveCD version 6.1.1.3 and the HD has NO other flavours of linux. That is the HD

Re: Compiling OpenOffice 2.0.1

2006-01-19 Thread Randy McMurchy
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote these words on 01/19/06 11:40 CST: On 1/19/06, Tor Olav Stava [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Are there any plans to upgrade the SVN book to include this version? It supposedly contains a few bugfixes, so it sounds like a good idea to me.. I would also very much appreciate

Re: admin password for knoppix liveCD

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Darcy
mrdaniel wrote: hi chris and all, i am sorry to have not noticed that but now i need you guys advise for the Admin's password for the knoppix liveCD. I need that to change the date/time. thanks. On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:20 pm, Chris Staub wrote: mrdaniel wrote: oh oh, i

Re: 5.3 patch binutils

2006-01-19 Thread Matt Darcy
You mean, essentially, that he should just follow the book, step by step and do *exactly* what it says without any deviation? And that if something doesn't turn out the way the book says it should, then he should realize that he's goofed something up along the way? Thats a better summery

Re: admin password for knoppix liveCD

2006-01-19 Thread mrdaniel
hi Matt, its the order of the day, will do and will come back with LFS related matters. ciao On Thursday 19 January 2006 12:55 pm, Matt Darcy wrote: mrdaniel wrote: hi chris and all, i am sorry to have not noticed that but now i need you guys advise for the Admin's password for the

Re: admin password for knoppix liveCD

2006-01-19 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
mrdaniel wrote: its the order of the day, will do and will come back with LFS related matters. And before you post to this list again, please read the following link: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/index.html#netiquette -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support

Re: round 11

2006-01-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/21/06, mrdaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: $ cat sed_ldLinuxso2.sh EOF #!/bin/sh SPECFILE=`gcc --print-file specs` sed 's@ /lib/ld-linux.so.2@ /tools/lib/[EMAIL PROTECTED]' \ $SPECFILE tempspecfile mv -f tempspecfile $SPECFILE unset SPECFILE EOF $ Maybe you should

5.7 got there at last.

2006-01-19 Thread mrdaniel
allo guys, finally i'd got the message output at stage 5.7 and thus will proceed to work on 5.8 . The recollection is basically a step was missed and for all to know l; its the sym link to /tools/bin/cc that was missing. thanks for all who have helped. ciao --

Re: 5.7 got there at last.

2006-01-19 Thread Hari
On 1/20/06, mrdaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: allo guys, finally i'd got the message output at stage 5.7 and thus will proceed to work on 5.8 . The recollection is basically a step was missed and for all to know l; its the sym link to /tools/bin/cc that was missing. thanks for all who

Re: 5.7 got there at last.

2006-01-19 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Hari wrote: PS. If this message of mine is against the majority of what this community feels, I take it back. No, it's agreed. There's always lfs-chat if you're feeling chatty. Also our channels in IRC are a little bit more informal in nature. However, if you ask for support in IRC, be

The e key suddenly stopped working in 'chroot'

2006-01-19 Thread Dan McGhee
Using LiveCD-pre3 and LFS-SVN I fired up this afternoon to configure the kernel. For the record, I had successfully completed all through Chapter 8.2, Creating the /etc/fstab File. In my last session I had worked from Chapter 6.56 Sysklogd to Chapter 8.2 with no problems. I think I may have

Re: The e key suddenly stopped working in 'chroot'

2006-01-19 Thread Dan McGhee
Dan McGhee wrote: Using LiveCD-pre3 and LFS-SVN I fired up this afternoon to configure the kernel. For the record, I had successfully completed all through Chapter 8.2, Creating the /etc/fstab File. In my last session I had worked from Chapter 6.56 Sysklogd to Chapter 8.2 with no problems.

Re: The e key suddenly stopped working in 'chroot'

2006-01-19 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/19/06, Dan McGhee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use scripts named lfschroot.sh and devpop.sh (developed from the hint for using the LiveCD) to 'chroot' and 'populate dev.' I ran '$LFS/lfschroot.sh' followed by ./devpop.sh and got the message: No such file or directory. To my utter

Re: The e key suddenly stopped working in 'chroot'[SOLVED]

2006-01-19 Thread Dan McGhee
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 1/19/06, Dan McGhee [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I use scripts named lfschroot.sh and devpop.sh (developed from the hint for using the LiveCD) to 'chroot' and 'populate dev.' I ran '$LFS/lfschroot.sh' followed by ./devpop.sh and got the message: No such file or

Re: The e key suddenly stopped working in 'chroot'[SOLVED]

2006-01-19 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Dan McGhee wrote: export INPUTRC=/etc/inputrc to export INPUTRC=/etc/profile :) Good one. I'm sure I've done worse. -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: book version 6.1 , error happens in chapter 6.11 when i Re:Re: book version 6.1 , error happens in chapter 6.11 when i were compiling the glibc (Hari)

2006-01-19 Thread yu Qiang
i have find something maybe the reason for that error i had read some papers and they said that the binuntils-2.15 can not be compiled correctly with fedora 4,so i try binutils-2.16.90.0.1.tar.bz2 as they mentioned,maybe it is He cause the error! today , i use the livecd to compile the

Re: book version 6.1 , error happens in chapter 6.11 when i Re:Re: book version 6.1 , error happens in chapter 6.11 when i were compiling the glibc (Hari)

2006-01-19 Thread Chris Staub
yu Qiang wrote: i have find something maybe the reason for that error i had read some papers and they said that the binuntils-2.15 can not be compiled correctly with fedora 4,so i try binutils-2.16.90.0.1.tar.bz2 as they mentioned,maybe it is He cause the error! today , i use the livecd to

lfs on an ncr mainframe

2006-01-19 Thread Shane Shields
Hi all, Does anyone know if lfs can be built on an ncr 3500/3550? I am unable to find much info about it on google. I have know idea as to the cpu or architecture. -- Shane Shields Registered LFS Compiler: 7582 To drink the WINE of success you must first seek the sayings of source Anyone

Re: Book on LiveCD

2006-01-19 Thread Paul G Rogers
It's not in the sources directory! It does me no good being in the booted system, I'm using my LFS-4.1 as host--it's much faster running from a HD than a CD. If you prefer to do it this way, then you can boot the CD, mount your HD and copy the book to somewhere on your HD. :) Yes, I suppose

Re: Book on LiveCD

2006-01-19 Thread Chris Staub
Paul G Rogers wrote: It's not in the sources directory! It does me no good being in the booted system, I'm using my LFS-4.1 as host--it's much faster running from a HD than a CD. If you prefer to do it this way, then you can boot the CD, mount your HD and copy the book to somewhere on your

Re: [Spam]lfs on an ncr mainframe

2006-01-19 Thread Shane Shields
Shane Shields wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if lfs can be built on an ncr 3500/3550? I am unable to find much info about it on google. I have know idea as to the cpu or architecture. Replying to myself here :) After a hard search and beating google with a clue bat I found out the the

Re: [Spam]lfs on an ncr mainframe

2006-01-19 Thread Shane Shields
Shane Shields wrote: Hi all, Does anyone know if lfs can be built on an ncr 3500/3550? I am unable to find much info about it on google. I have know idea as to the cpu or architecture. Replying to myself here :) After a hard search and beating google with a clue bat I found out the the