Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Josh wrote: hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline if something goes wrong. The next task at hand is to figure out how to

Re: problem with fixed font on X

2006-01-31 Thread Ricardo Eureka!
2006/1/30, Alan Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED]: here's a couple of pointers that may (or may not) help... Did you actually configure your fonts as explained in the subsequent sections of the book Chapters 25 and 26? Did I miss something? Sorry - I meant the last two sections of Chapter

spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
hi, upon rebooting after completing the book, got the following screen lines INIT Id 1 respawning too fase: disable for 5 minutes INIT Id 2 respawning too fase: disable for 5 minutes - similarly up to INIT Id 6 respawning too fase: disable for 5 minutes no more processes left in this run

gkd-pixbuf-config ?

2006-01-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
Hi all I've got problems installing a software that require GTK+1. It complains it doesn't find gdk-pixbuf-config. Indeed, I've not this tool. How do I obtain this tool? I installed GTK+2. As required I installed before GLib 2, Imlib2 Then I installed GTK+1 (and GLib 1, Imlib1) I searched

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Georg Schinnerl
--- Ursprüngliche Nachricht --- Von: Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] An: lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Betreff: first successful boot with GRUB floppy Datum: Mon, 30 Jan 2006 19:44:16 -0800 (PST) As the title states, I successfully booted my shiny new LFS-6.1.1

Re: gkd-pixbuf-config ?

2006-01-31 Thread Randy McMurchy
Luca Dionisi wrote these words on 01/31/06 08:16 CST: I've got problems installing a software that require GTK+1. It complains it doesn't find gdk-pixbuf-config. Indeed, I've not this tool. How do I obtain this tool? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/gnome/gdkpixbuf.html

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
--- Alan Lord [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: You are really trying everyone's patience. FAQ i had checked and corrected those entries but upon reboot it still loops there. But its funny thing is that out of 3 HD with numeric prefix in the etc/inittab, those did not had that only one that was

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Matt Darcy
i had checked and corrected those entries but upon reboot it still loops there. But its funny thing is that out of 3 HD with numeric prefix in the etc/inittab, those did not had that only one that was built with a PIII-450. hence what is the correct step to take. thanks 3 HD's with

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Randy McMurchy
Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: http://redora.redhat.com It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. What was its name, Astro? :-) -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4]

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Matt Darcy
Randy McMurchy wrote: Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: http://redora.redhat.com It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. What was its name, Astro? :-) Its the new distro - keep up Randy, don't you know anything --

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Shane Shields
Randy McMurchy wrote: Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: http://redora.redhat.com It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. What was its name, Astro? :-) LOL -- Shane Shields Registered LFS Compiler: 7582 To drink the WINE of success you

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Randy McMurchy wrote: Matt Darcy wrote these words on 01/31/06 09:28 CST: http://redora.redhat.com It looks like that dog in the old Jetsons cartoon typed this. What was its name, Astro? :-) Ruh roh. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
--- Matt Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: 3 HD's with numeric prefix in /etc/inittab ??? what does that mean, i worked throughout with 3 PCs thus have 3 HDD, and each have been done according to the book, but as at now realised the typo error etered as for 6.56.2 cofiguring Sysvinit, the groupo

syslog

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
hi, i got another situation here that the following messages appeared in the boot process :- starting system log daemon ... nice: syslogd: no such file or directory starting kernel log daemon nice: klogd: no such file or directoty. we had checked and the /etc/syslog.conf has been coded

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
mrdaniel wrote: hi, i got another situation here that the following messages appeared in the boot process :- starting system log daemon ... nice: syslogd: no such file or directory starting kernel log daemon nice: klogd: no such file or directoty. we had checked and the

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
:) On 1/31/06, Matt Darcy [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: http://redora.redhat.com http://www.debian.org http://www.suse.com http://www.ubuntu.com Why not www.microsoft.com and try to ask for support to them? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/30/06, Josh [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline if something goes wrong. The next task at

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
--- Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before you ask another question here, please list what you steps have taken to find the answer to this problem yourself. Before *ever* you post a request for help here, you should have at least used Google to search for an answer. As you may

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 1/31/06, mrdaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Chinese Lunar New Year for the urge to do one at least perfect LFS. but till now not there yet. If you expert could lend a hand LFS sould be up and running in perfection I believe in less than a normal working week. Doing searches elsewhere only

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
--- Luca Dionisi [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Then, you don't need LFS. You can live easily and *productively* with any recent linux distro. Really. Try and you'll see. ok, that's equivalent to the notion of mastering an art it may take as long as 3 years before one can come down from the

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread Luca Dionisi
On 1/31/06, mrdaniel [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: ok, that's equivalent to the notion of mastering an art it may take as long as 3 years before one can come down from the mountain to deliver in the real world. IMHO 3 years is too much, one week is too few. Regards Luca --

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread Ricardo Frydman Eureka!
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 mrdaniel wrote: --- Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Before you ask another question here, please list what you steps have taken to find the answer to this problem yourself. Before *ever* you post a request for help here, you should

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread Matt Darcy
mrdaniel wrote: hi, i got another situation here that the following messages appeared in the boot process :- starting system log daemon ... nice: syslogd: no such file or directory starting kernel log daemon nice: klogd: no such file or directoty. we had checked and the

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
--- Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: probably missing some of the finer points in the book. When you encounter a word or phrase you're not familiar with, how do you work out its meaning? by experimetation. for example the page for untaring had been misunderstood and a new

Re: syslog

2006-01-31 Thread mrdaniel
--- Ricardo Frydman Eureka! [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: I am a non-English speaker too. I think that LFS is not for everyone, I hope you understand what I mean You need some basic requirements to get it succesfully working: + some linux basis have improved trying with LFS. thanks for

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Subhash Chandra
hda is my Windows XP, without which, i couldn't have joined this mailing list or search for information online. I chose to completely preserve the MBR (and all of my first hard drive) as it is my lifeline if something goes wrong. The next task at hand is to figure out how to tweak the

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Subhash Chandra
@mr.danial I have an advise for you even if the rest of them decide I'm crazy! As you seem to be hell bent over LFS, get the livecd and use jhalfs or nalfs. You don't need much config there and default works fine. Once you get the system up and running, go for blfs and you'll get some package

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Chris Staub
Subhash Chandra wrote: @mr.danial I have an advise for you even if the rest of them decide I'm crazy! As you seem to be hell bent over LFS, get the livecd and use jhalfs or nalfs. You don't need much config there and default works fine. Once you get the system up and running, go for blfs and

Re: spawnig too fast

2006-01-31 Thread Subhash Chandra
I'm not going to mince words...this is the worst advice you can possibly offer an LFS newbie. I accept -- I don't know how much of what I say is true -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

LCFS Build complete!

2006-01-31 Thread John Gay
Well, I don't see a clfs-support list, and I don't feel confident enough to comment on the book contents, so I'll crow here instead. Let me know if there's a more appropriate place for these discussions. Just finished my 64-bit build on my Dual Opteron! I followed the pure-64 build plan from

Re: first successful boot with GRUB floppy

2006-01-31 Thread Josh
--- Georg Schinnerl [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: then use the following command to write this bootsector into a file dd if=/dev/hdb5 of=/root/boot.lnx bs=512 count=1 copy the file boot.lnx to your windows partition and add a line similar to the following to your boot.ini that's how i

Re: LCFS Build complete!

2006-01-31 Thread Jim Gifford
Thanx John, we really appreciate the comments. The CLFS list is up as cross-lfs, still awaiting gmane to sync up with it. -- -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] LFS User # 2577 Registered Linux User # 299986 -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: