LFS Installation disk creation

2009-11-25 Thread mathan kumar
Hello there I've build my LFS system and i want distribute to my friends. Someone help me how can i do that. What are the possible ways to obtain this. Science is nothing but logic... My PGP Key ID : 0x1828F6A9 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: LFS Installation disk creation

2009-11-25 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
mathan kumar schrieb: I've build my LFS system and i want distribute to my friends. Someone help me how can i do that. What are the possible ways to obtain this. You should be able to just copy the partition. BUT: Your friends probably have different hardware. Therefore you'll run into trouble

Re: boot problem LFS 6.5

2009-11-25 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 04:23 -0500, stosss wrote: IDE this is 5 or 6 year old hardware that still runs fine. I do have newer hardware in another box with SATA drives that will get LFS at some point. Not sure I'd have the patience to run an LFS build on something that old. I mean, I've been

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-25 Thread Simon Geard
On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 20:29 -0600, al...@verizon.net wrote: Speaking of USB, I do have my own slide off topic. I've been wondering why people still prefer/use _internal_ opticals when USB, modern, versatile, sophisticated (like Blu-Ray) drives are so convenient, easy to share (especially with

Re: boot problem LFS 6.5

2009-11-25 Thread stosss
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 5:06 AM, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote: On Tue, 2009-11-24 at 04:23 -0500, stosss wrote: IDE this is 5 or 6 year old hardware that still runs fine. I do have newer hardware in another box with SATA drives that will get LFS at some point. Not sure I'd have the

Re: grub problem

2009-11-25 Thread su.sinnes
1) grub's kernel/linux line, the root=/dev/[is_incorrect] parameter 2) fstab's: [is_incorrect] / root line Kernel may panic if it can't find its system in (1) Kernel may find (1), but (2) is wrong (1) and (2) can even be different if the kernel can use it. okay is there any other 64 bit boot

Re: grub problem

2009-11-25 Thread linux fan
On 11/25/09, su.sinnes wrote: is there anything i can do? We've all been down this road before ... whatever we do, grub doesn't seem to work ... You have gotten grub to load a kernel ... that is getting close. The key marked PrtScr SysRq can stop the display from scrolling while booting --

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-25 Thread Richard Melville
Bruce Dubbs wrote:- That works for you, but for most people, it's far easier to use a usb thumb drive with capacities in GB to do the same thing. Some very old systems do not have usb connections, but many, if not most, newer systems do not have a floppy drive. Parallel printer

Re: grub problem

2009-11-25 Thread su.sinnes
The key marked PrtScr SysRq can stop the display from scrolling while booting -- you have to be quick. / CTRL-Q resume scolling Can you get with pencil and paper the messages that happen just before the panic. it did not work i think it's because im on a laptop and i need to hold down the fn

5.5. GCC-4.4.1 - Pass 1

2009-11-25 Thread knothead00
Greetings: I am the 5.5. GCC-4.4.1 - Pass 1 section in LFS 6.5 book using livecd. I run the command: ln -vs libgcc.a `$LFS_TGT-gcc -print-libgcc-file-name | sed 's/libgcc/_eh/'` and the results return: ( I ran it a couple of times) lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build$ ln -vs libgcc.a `$LFS_TGT-gcc

Re: 5.5. GCC-4.4.1 - Pass 1

2009-11-25 Thread William Immendorf
On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:30 AM, knothea...@gmail.com wrote: lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build$ ln -vs libgcc.a `$LFS_TGT-gcc -print-libgcc-file-name | sed 's/libgcc/_eh/'` bash: i686-lfs-linux-gnu-gcc: command not found ln: creating symbolic link `./libgcc.a': File exists You messed up when

Re: grub problem

2009-11-25 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/11/25 su.sinnes su.sin...@mail.com: 1) grub's kernel/linux line, the root=/dev/[is_incorrect] parameter 2) fstab's:  [is_incorrect] / root line Kernel may panic if it can't find its system in (1) Kernel may find (1), but (2) is wrong (1) and (2) can even be different if the kernel can

Re: 5.5. GCC-4.4.1 - Pass 1

2009-11-25 Thread Ken Moffat
2009/11/25 William Immendorf will.immend...@gmail.com: On Wed, Nov 25, 2009 at 9:30 AM,  knothea...@gmail.com wrote: lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/gcc-build$ ln -vs libgcc.a `$LFS_TGT-gcc -print-libgcc-file-name | sed 's/libgcc/_eh/'` bash: i686-lfs-linux-gnu-gcc: command not found ln: creating

Re: grub problem

2009-11-25 Thread linux fan
On 11/25/09, su.sinnes wrote: The key marked PrtScr SysRq can stop the display from scrolling it did not work i think it's because im on a laptop and i need to hold down the fn key to use prt sc and sysrq, and it is not supported. neither did ctrl + s OOPS, I might have typed before I had my

Re: grub problem

2009-11-25 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Ken Moffat wrote: Earlier, I think you said you were using vmware ? This is probably the key to the problem - I'm guessing it needs a specific disk driver, and perhaps that is not part of the linux kernel (because vmware is a proprietary product). Maybe there is a vmware support list or

Re: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*'

2009-11-25 Thread Fernando Oliveira
--- Em qua, 30/9/09, William Immendorf will.immend...@gmail.com escreveu: De: William Immendorf will.immend...@gmail.com Assunto: Re: invalid conversion from 'const char*' to 'char*' Para: BLFS Support List blfs-supp...@linuxfromscratch.org Data: Quarta-feira, 30 de Setembro de 2009, 21:04

Re: grub problem

2009-11-25 Thread linux fan
On 11/23/09, su.sinnes su.sin...@mail.com wrote: Hi im stuck with grub, as soon as i restart i get into the grub shell I reserve the right to be wrong, but ... While you can't compile the old grub under 64bit, you could still use the old grub ... can't you? --

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Simon Geard wrote: On Mon, 2009-11-23 at 18:29 -0600, al...@verizon.net wrote: The last thing is to start a flame here; I still see a need for floppies on Linux due to the relatively small sizes of files in need to be quickly sneakered among machines. Is this a machine predating USB? I

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-25 Thread Mike McCarty
Bruce Dubbs wrote: That works for you, but for most people, it's far easier to use a usb thumb drive with capacities in GB to do the same thing. ISTM, this whole sub thread is plainly, and simply, OFF TOPIC. Some very old systems do not have usb connections, but many, if not most, newer

Re: UDEV - Not Leaving Well Enough Alone

2009-11-25 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Good morning, Am Mittwoch 25 November 2009 21:54:10 schrieb Mike McCarty: Simon Geard wrote: [...], and I've honestly no idea where I could buy a new floppy disk these days... http://www.floppydisk.com/ SCNR :) Well, you don't use my machines, and on my machines, my rules hold. When I