Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-21 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 03.06.2013 01:32, schrieb scott maxwell: > Sorry about the top posting. I have never posted to an email forum > like this before and had no idea what you were writing about. My > smart wife came to the rescue. Thank you all for your help. A si

Re: [Fwd: Problems compiling Devicekit-power-012]

2010-03-19 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Thomas Sapp schrieb: [...] > if someone would kindly instruct me how to redirect it to a file. I > tried putting "> devkitpower.log" on the end of the command but I only > got the non-error output. Thanks in advance for any help that is provided. You can catch the stderr output using: cmd > stdout

Re: my kernel won't recognize ide drives

2010-03-19 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
William Immendorf schrieb: > On Thu, Mar 18, 2010 at 2:24 PM, Scott Kopel wrote: >> So the question is what kernel configuration changes do I have to make to >> get the kernel to recognize my ide drives? I realize that new kernels name >> ide drives sdx and that's fine. I don't need them to be l

Re: Glibc test failure

2010-02-14 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
bchaf...@programmer.net schrieb: > globtest.sh: command substitution: line 32: syntax error near unexpected > token `)' Without knowing that script, this could be a missing shell variable? Maybe a variable that should be set through your environment is empty because you're missing something when

Re: Booting problems again

2010-02-13 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Mike McCarty schrieb: [...] > I have studied the recommended layout (I can't recall what it's > called, now) Maybe FHS? http://www.pathname.com/fhs/ Cheers, Jan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the abov

Re:

2010-02-13 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Mike McCarty schrieb: [...] > is used to encode the 8 bit character with hex code xx. > Since 0x3D is the code for "=", then "=3D" is the code > for "=". These substitutions are sometimes made by mailers > or even by machines in between. ... which teaches us: "don't copy/paste code snippets from e

Re: Booting problems

2010-02-12 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
brown wrap schrieb: [...] > So here is my question. If I move the external drive inside and make it the > first drive, will I be able to boot, even though LFS is on the 2nd partiton? > I don't want to, but I could move everyting over to the first partition, but > I'd have to wipe it out, which I

Re: Finished First Pass

2010-02-03 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Mike McCarty schrieb: > Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel wrote: >> Erm, maybe you underestimate the distros here :) > > Of course I don't. I'm pointing out why the two stage > bootstrap is necessary, to someone who doesn't understand. Ok, sorry then :) I just want

Re: Finished First Pass

2010-02-03 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Mike McCarty schrieb: > I don't think you'd be very satisfied if you used, say RHEL, > and downloaded the source they claimed was that of the compiler > they used to build, and when you built it using the copy you > have on your machine, the results were different. Erm, maybe you underestimate the

Re: Xorg problems, with libX11.so

2010-01-29 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Simon Geard schrieb: > No. No, you can't. The machine translation is almost as incomprehensible > to me as the original Chinese. Which is why we eventually must breed the Babel fish :) Seriously, just translate something A->B and right back. Always good for a laugh or two. Or try that one: "Time

Re: NFS Boot

2010-01-18 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Am Sonntag 17 Januar 2010 17:10:38 schrieb Mikie: > I'm a 46 year old IT and Automation professional. > > I have people from business, government, and education (small schools) > screaming for an alternatives to Windows. > The malware is disrupting everyone these days and people are drowning. > >

Re: Stuck at 5.7.1

2010-01-04 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Am Montag 04 Januar 2010 03:50:41 schrieb Simon Geard: > 100% correct. It *is* for advanced people, quite intentionally. It's > intended for those people who are interested in understanding things > like how the toolchain works, how everything fits together. Not to mention all whose job is packagi

Re: Stuck at 5.7.1

2010-01-03 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Am Sonntag 03 Januar 2010 19:38:03 schrieb Andrew Benton: > > The name "lfs:lfs" doesn't matter, you're free to change. It just has to > > be a user in the chroot system. > > No, root does the chroot part Erm, sorry, not precise enough. What I meant is that the user "lfs" must come from $LFS/etc/p

Re: Stuck at 5.7.1

2010-01-03 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Am Sonntag 03 Januar 2010 16:36:58 schrieb Mikie: > What is the difference using another user and substituting that username > elsewhere in the book? Is the LFS user hardcoded in the kernel with special > privileges? *ROTFL* Did you notice where your kernel comes from? ;) The name "lfs:lfs" doesn'

BLFS-6.3 / LFS-6.4 Problem in iptables-1.3.8 package, wrong struct contents

2009-12-18 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Hello there, This is my first serious post to blfs-* ML. I have a running LFS 6.4 (kernel version 2.6.27.4) system and I'm working on BLFS 6.3 (stable). I ran into trouble with the iptables-1.3.8 package. In several places there were errors reulting from changes in header files. I finally mana

Re: [Newbie, LFS-6.5]: Problems with binutils-Pass2 compilation..

2009-12-17 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Am Donnerstag 17 Dezember 2009 15:49:22 schrieb Ken Moffat: [...] > Probably, the absence of an 8-bit type : > > checking for type equivalent to int8_t... configure: error: no 8-bit type Or maybe you haven't got the respective -devel packages installed? What does rpm -q "glibc-devel" or rpm -q "l

Re: Knoppix is missing the patch command

2009-12-16 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Jonathan Wilkes schrieb: > I tried googling for any hints, and checking the archives for this list, > but I'm new to linux so I'm a bit unsure what I'm searching for. Any hints > would be greatly appreciated. As far as I know most LiveCDs should have a read-write-overlay filesystem. Which mean

Re: LFS 6.5 chapter 8.3.1

2009-12-03 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Am Donnerstag 03 Dezember 2009 10:32:56 schrieb stosss: > Did everything get built using > GCC on the host? If it did then this entire LFS build is toast. Well, if you compiled _anything_ successfully and don't have a working gcc in your chroot environment, the question is, how could you use the

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. Whe

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 troubl

Re: menu.lst and fstab

2009-11-24 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Am Dienstag 24 November 2009 17:36:32 schrieb linux fan: > As far as I am aware, greub always did, always will, call them hd. I also think so. > To be exact, it calls them hd when it means in grub-speak (hd0, > and they can be called sd when it means in real-speak /dev/sda (if it is > sata) So yo

Re: grub problem

2009-11-23 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Hej, su.sinnes schrieb: > i have recompiled the kernel 4 times now and i have selected all SATA > drivers, and ext 2 filesystem. > but no luck. Just for clarity: the drivers are compiled in the kernel statically? Second thing, maybe the drivers you have in LFS handle device names differently an

Re: boot problem LFS 6.5

2009-11-23 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
Hei there, Simone Dalmasso schrieb: > Hi, I had a similar problem and the solution was to recompile the kernel > with the correct driver for the hard disk. Just for the sake of completeness (because I went through the same kind of problem), you also need the correct driver for the IDE (or SATA) c

Re: Installing initrd

2009-11-19 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Hello, Shirley Temple schrieb: > My only two options for my scsi host system is to either compile the > drivers into the kernel at make time or to add initrd, I believe? I > checked out on google about compiling the drivers into the kernel and it > lo