I want to express my appreciation for the people of the LFS
support echo, and especially for the support team. The quality
of folk, and the quality of support, are, in my experience,
unsurpassed.
I have, since about 2005 or so, used and admin'd a few free
distro's, the names of which would likely
Giorgio Cittadini wrote:
RESOLVED!!!
Congratulations!
And thanks for posting the fix.
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Frederick Muriithi wrote:
I just finished building my lfs 6.8 system, and registered as a new
lfs user. Just follow the rules for posting and you'll be surprised
Congratulations!
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Andrew Benton wrote:
Giorgio gioci...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
What to do? Could you suggest where I mistook? What to do now: remove
(but how?) Grub and reinstall it?
GRUB is not something to remove. If one no longer wants GRUB, then
one simply overwrites it with something else.
You don't
Andrew Benton wrote:
On Tue, 16 Aug 2011 12:46:46 -0500
Mike McCarty mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Andrew Benton wrote:
You don't need to reinstall grub. If it's working Ok and you can boot
into LFS then just edit grub.cfg to make an entry for windows,
something like this:
menuentry
Bill Cunningham wrote:
I don't know if this would qualify as an error or not. whatever this is
I think it broke the compile. Does anyone know what this says?
I know what the immediate meaning is, but not the cause.
In file included /mnt/lfs/gcc-4.5.2/gcc/gcc.c:8303: warning: cast
Simon Geard wrote:
On Thu, 2011-07-28 at 13:02 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
[...]
What is the issue? Does the GCC have special hooks into the
kernel or sth like that?
GCC doesn't - but glibc does. Not my area of expertise, but I assume a
2.4 kernel simply doesn't provide the necessary
William Immendorf wrote:
On Tue, Jul 26, 2011 at 8:29 AM, Bill Cunningham bill...@suddenlink.net
wrote:
  Ok. It's there. I have solved this problem. And another has arisen. I am
running an old RH 9 32 bit OS on a AMD athelon 64 bit address bus processor.
(FYI: It's spelled Athlon, not
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
[...]
It may not detect the network card. The live CD is no longer supported.
You can test a little more with `ifconfig -a`. If eth0 does not show up
then, the card is probably more recent than the iso.
Try using a more recent livecd from http://www.livecdlist.com/
Tony Hartzell wrote:
VFS: Cannot open root device hda2 or unknown-block(2,0)
Please append a correct root= boot option; here are the available
partitions:
Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: unable to mount root fs on
unknown-block(2,0)
Usually a result of a missing driver in the file system
Webmaster wrote:
Sometimes I don't have much time to wait it so I pressed Ctrl+C. Are
there any side effects if I stop it?
It depends upon when it is done. If you simply
$ make
and then
$ make check
then likely there is no problem. If, however, the
$ make check
is the first command, then
me,apporc wrote:
Alright.
In fact i saw his name was in chinese so i used chinese . I thought maybe
we can communicate with each other better with chinese.
Don't worry, it won't happen again.
By the way ,sorry for my poor english.
If I may make a comment and suggestion:
While the LIST
Bill Cunningham wrote:
Well I've pretty much follwed the book word for word up to the
What does pretty much mean?
compilation of binutils and it breaks the enviornment can't find the ld.
Bill
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Webmaster wrote:
I've found that there are so many options... I don't know which one I
should choose and which one shouldn't...
What is the different between * built-in and M moudle?
You got some replies which may have helped. I'll give an explanation
of the difference in physical terms, and
William Immendorf wrote:
On Thu, Jun 23, 2011 at 11:08 AM, Frederick Muriithi
fredmang...@gmail.com wrote:
[...]
Have fun, don't panic, and don't forget to bring your towel!!! (on
second thought, leave the towel behind)
Is that in large friendly letters? Then he'd better bring
his towel.
Webmaster wrote:
For example:
ls -l /usr/bin | more redirect_test.log 21 (BLFS 6.3 Page 37) What does
21 mean?
You got two nice explanations; I thought perhaps a little more
detail would help. However, this is a basic UNIX shell type
question, and something someone embarking upon building
Simon Geard wrote:
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:12 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Webmaster wrote:
I never check, because if the check passed it's useless but if the
check failed you can do nothing.
Then you do not understand the purpose of testing. I've heard
many a manager say more or less
lanas wrote:
OK. I already have a nicely-equipped Fedora 32-bit virtual machine in
That was going to be my suggestion. Not Fedora, abut a 32 bit virtual.
which I alreay built several LFS some time ago (2 years), so I'll keep
at it then. I was kind of hoping for a 'instant recipe' that did
Simon Geard wrote:
On Fri, 2011-06-17 at 11:12 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Webmaster wrote:
I never check, because if the check passed it's useless but if the
check failed you can do nothing.
Then you do not understand the purpose of testing. I've heard
many a manager say more or less
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
Webmaster wrote:
I never check, because if the check passed it's useless but if the
check failed you can do nothing.
Then you do not understand the purpose of testing. I've heard
many a manager say more or less the same thing.
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Brian Dickens wrote:
I recently finished working through the most recent LFS book, but
when I try booting into the new OS, I see the following error: VFS:
cannot open root device sda2 orq unknown-block(0,0)
It looks like you have a problem either in configuration of your boot or
in
robert wrote:
cannot get beyond this:
make[1]: Target `check' not remade because of errors.
make[1]: Leaving directory `/sources/glibc-2.12.1'
make: *** [check] Error 2
make[2]: [/sources/glibc-build/posix/annexc.out] Error 1 (ignored)
make[2]: *** [/sources/glibc-build/rt/tst-mqueue5.out]
bsquared wrote:
Hello,
Can anyone recommend some resources for troubleshooting a kernel panic.
I have been built LFS 6.8 on a USB stick, and moved it to a disk
partition using 'dd'. I modified the grub.cfg file and rebooted.
Then got a kernel panic.
Usually, kernel panics have some
William Immendorf wrote:
William, you have the patience of a saint.
Janu,
FBBG
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Send this type of message to lfs-support
Original Message
Subject: Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 2302, Issue 2 (janu mam)
Date: Wed, 4 May 2011 09:57:37 +0530
From: janu mam janakiramulu.mt...@gmail.com
To: Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com
References:
bsquared wrote:
In case anyone has interest. I was able to use jhbuild to install xorg
7.6 on LFS 6.8 w/ package users fairly easily.
Perhaps a hint is in order?
Mike
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me,apporc wrote:
Hi
Is there a book or someting like which i can refer to for these knowledge
about disks , images files and partitions .
I use the man pages a lot.
I don't know how to mount a partition in a image file with offset .I want to
know detailed knowledge about this . I hope you
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Yes, it,s a little touchy. You can get that when it's creating /tools, etc.
too.
Just delete the old stuff and start over. The program is not very tolerant
of errors and variations, but once you get it work the way you want, it's
handy.
I looked a little farther, and the
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Yes, it,s a little touchy. You can get that when it's creating /tools, etc.
too.
Ok, I've read the source, Luke, and I've got it going.
For the FIRST run one must have
Rebuild Files set to FALSE (not checked)
Rebuild Makefile set to FALSE (not checked)
It
bsquared wrote:
On Wed, Apr 20, 2011 at 9:16 PM, Mike McCarty
mike.mcca...@sbcglobal.net wrote:
Is the version 6.8 wget-list not yet available?
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.8/wget-list
Thanks! Got it.
It would make sense to put a copy or link in the
download area as well
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Update: The 6.8 sources is now on the master and will be on the mirrors
when they sync in the next day or so. I put a MD5SUM file in the tarball.
Thanks!
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I've started in building 6.8 using a VM (qemu).
I built the pseudo disc file using the raw disc image creator supplied
with the VM. I set up an ISO image of the LFS LiveCD as the boot
disc, attached the raw disc image to /dev/hda, and booted up. I then
ran cfdisk to create volumes, and formatted
Neal Murphy wrote:
Bother! Clicked the wrong button!
[nice stuff snipped]
I very much appreciate the suggestions for PT editors. Thanks!
However, I'd like to get an answer to the question about the
offsets within the file to get to the starts of the file systems.
Am I missing something, like
Karthik Bhuvanagiri wrote:
Hi,
I'm following LFS-Book-6.7. I followed everything in the book successfully
until section 6.44.1-Installation of Grub. Compiling grub-1.98 fails after
issuing make command.
Please suggest me in resolving the issue.
*Output of ./configure --prefix=/usr
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Did this ever get resolved? I see that the .o files got included
in the link more than once, but I didn't see a resolution.
In a fresh svn build yesterday, I get no errors at all. You've cut down
the output to where I can't see what the Makefile
Alex Bosworth wrote:
I don't know a lot about linux scheduler, but I believe that it would make a
difference as, setting a lower priority means less time slice allocated to
the
process thus, in turn reduces the frequency the process is scheduled. On the
No, it means that if there are
Lorenzo Trojan wrote:
Hi all, I hope this isn't a silly question...
it's not quite clear to me one thing: why the the gcc cross compiler
created in sec 5.5 isn't used for the compilation of the packages in
section 5 (something like ./configure CC=$LFS_TGT-gcc)? Since the
path is set to
I'm using a VM (qemu) to build LFS v 6.8. I'm using the LFS LiveCD
as my build system. I've partitioned and formatted my disc,
and successfully booted the LiveCD. I've downloaded jhalfs-2.3.2
(I understand the one on the LiveCD jhalfs-2.3.1 is broken) and
started setting up my directory structure.
Is the version 6.8 wget-list not yet available?
Mike
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
I'm using a VM (qemu) to build LFS v 6.8. I'm using the LFS LiveCD
as my build system. I've partitioned and formatted my disc,
and successfully booted the LiveCD. I've downloaded jhalfs-2.3.2
(I understand the one on the LiveCD jhalfs-2.3.1 is broken
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
When you go into the VM, extract jhalfs to your /home directory (the
name doesn't matter). Run from there. jhalfs should create
/mnt/lfs/{jhalfs,sources}. I tell it not to mess with sources and then
just copy them manually to /mnt/lfs/sources, because I sometimes
Mike McCarty wrote:
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
When you go into the VM, extract jhalfs to your /home directory (the
name doesn't matter). Run from there. jhalfs should create
/mnt/lfs/{jhalfs,sources}. I tell it not to mess with sources and then
just copy them manually to /mnt/lfs/sources
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Don't know. I'd have to look at the code. I've always used ~/jhalfs
(with the current svn version).
Doesn't work for me, and hasn't worked for me, ever.
I just repeated a trial, and got the same result. It complains that
/media/jhalfs/lfs-commands does not exist.
If
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Yes, it,s a little touchy. You can get that when it's creating /tools, etc.
too.
Just delete the old stuff and start over. The program is not very tolerant
of errors and variations, but once you get it work the way you want, it's
handy.
Are you familiar with the term
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Yes, it,s a little touchy. You can get that when it's creating /tools, etc.
too.
Just delete the old stuff and start over. The program is not very tolerant
of errors and variations, but once you get it work the way you want, it's
handy.
I did what you suggest five times,
Simon Geard wrote:
[...]
While not universal, there seems to be a growing feeling that having a
separate /usr partition serves no useful purpose these days. The third
of those links gives a pretty good summary of that viewpoint.
Well, I also have read this argument, and it cuts no water
with
There is an incompatibility with using udev and /usr being a
separate file system, which users of LFS need to be aware of.
It is presently not possible, in general, to use udev and have
/usr be a separately mounted file system. This is something to
consider when planning the layout of the disc
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
janu mam wrote:
i am using lfs livex86-r2160 as host for building lfs book 6.7,
in lfs6.7 book the following msg was there
The LFS LiveCD might not work on newer hardware configurations,
failing to boot or failing to detect
some devices such as some SATA hard drives.
Simon Geard wrote:
Not meaning to start an argument on that basis. But by 'modern'
desktops, I meant recent versions of Gnome or KDE, compared to more
lightweight setups.
As to the relevance to the thread, I know I didn't make that clear, but
my thinking was that device names really aren't
J Falcetti wrote:
How do would I know when I'm inside the directory?
Perhaps you need to re read the general instructions section.
Are you familiar with the cd and pwd commands?
First, you untar the tarball, then you cd to the directory
extracted from the tarball. For this particular build, you
Martin Zajíc ZAJCA wrote:
[...]
checking for suffix of object files... configure: error: in
`/mnt/LFS/build/gcc-4.5.1-BUILD/x86_64-lfs-linux-gnu/libgcc':
configure: error: cannot compute suffix of object files: cannot compile
See `config.log' for more details.
Did you see `config.log' for
Smartboy wrote:
I've been pursuing the UnionFS hint quite a bit over the past couple
years, though each attempt has either failed or I just never had time to
finish it. The biggest problem is that I don't know how to get
UnionFS/AUFS available during the Chapter 6 build, though I may have
Smartboy wrote:
It isn't enough just to install AUFS or UnionFS within the development
environment. I think it also needs something else, like being installed
in the host's kernel, though even after that I couldn't get AUFS to work
within a chroot.
Yes, that's part of installed. It must be
Pursuing the subject of package management, I've been considering
the use more than one of the hints. One hint I've explored somewhat
is the Package User hint. I must admit, that while it's simple,
and attractive, I don't like burdening something which isn't intended
to track packages, namely user
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
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 the
Timothy Rice wrote:
The graph is not acyclic.
Hi Mac,
That is true. The scripts would need to check for cycles and either bail
out to admit manual treatment, or automagically call upon special cases.
Ideally, the latter, once the basic idea is admitted as feasible. This
could be
Timothy Rice wrote:
Hey Dan,
[...]
After I rebuild manually, I'd be more than happy to work with you and
update the hint.
Sounds good :-)
If ya'll really get something working, I'd sure love to see
it.
I understand why LFS is the way it is. However, I'd like to
be able to build a list of
Timothy Rice wrote:
[...]
these other systems for dead. An example of what can be accomplished is to
have scripts that parse the (B)LFS books for source locations and
dependency information, and automatically download required files and
install any dependencies, recursively. I know this sort
Simon Geard wrote:
[...]
That's experience talking, I might add. My LFS builds are almost always
scripted, and more than once, I've investigated a compile problem that's
Is there a reason you prefer a script to an automated package like
JHALFS?
Mike
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Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Download locations may not always be accessible. If a download location
has changed since this book was published, Google
(http://www.google.com/) provides a useful search engine for most
packages. If this search is unsuccessful, try one of the alternative
May I suggest
I was at a used book store and selected a copy of O'Reilly's
Unix Backup and Recovery nutshell series book for purchase.
One of our party became ill, and I left early to take her home.
When I retuned, the others had already made the purchase, and
I wound up with the book, but no companion CD-ROM,
Danny Engelbarts wrote:
That book mentions the site http://backupcentral.com/ i had a quick look and
Thanks. I'll look there. I did do a search, and found the O'Reilly book
for sale from them, but no downloadable content.
the site appears closely related and offers downloads of various free
Dan McGhee wrote:
You are absolutely right, but I would not characterize it as a problem,
but something to be considered and about which to make a decision. In
fact, it's the reason I posted. Using only the instructions in the LFS
book, this header file would be replaced three
Tony Sauri wrote:
On Thu, 15 Jul 2010 11:45, Mike McCarty wrote:
Well, the larger parts are actually not in the book. It simply
refers one to the CD-ROM. At least, the paper version of the book
does. However, I'll reasearch what you suggest.
Are these the scripts you are looking for?
I'm
Simon Geard wrote:
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:59 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Apparently, it's the stated non-goal to support switching back
by the authors (or at least owners) of the driver.
So, unless he's willing to get the source for the driver, and
rewrite portions of it himself, there's
$reeHari wrote:
*This is the note on http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd :
Note:* The LiveCD is no longer being maintained. However, it still works
well for many purposes, including as a vehicle to build LFS. The packages
and the rendered LFS book on the CD are quite out of date. To use the
Neal Murphy wrote:
On Friday 02 July 2010 07:53:19 Ken Moffat wrote:
... but people can make the same error each time.
And that's really OK: it's a mere reflection of their computer skills and we
can help them with that. But expecting different results every time is a sure
sign of
littlebat wrote:
[...]
I sugguest adding a note in SBU section such as: the test time should
be included into SBU measure in Chapter 6 if the package has a testsuite
and shouldn't be included into SBU measure in Chapter 5 anyway.
Although it will not affect us to make a working LFS without
Simon Geard wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-30 at 13:25 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
Simon Geard wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:25 -0500, al...@verizon.net wrote:
You were ok up to here...
A combination of trying to simplify, and trying to remember stuff I last
played with in college, back when
$reeHari wrote:
Hi , thanks 4 the replies . I used version 6.3 of the book coz the livecds
of lfs contained only packages for version 6.3 of the book . since version
6.6 uses newer versions of packages and livecd with all the required
packages are not available , i would have to download each
Simon Geard wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-29 at 10:25 -0500, al...@verizon.net wrote:
You were ok up to here...
The 80x25 mode you boot in is special in that regard, because that
combination of pixels and fonts is implemented in the BIOS itself, as a
standard feature going back 20 years. And being
al...@verizon.net wrote:
On Jun 29, 07:40:18 AM, Simon wrote:
I'm confused. So before we go to the _exact_ steps of
Yes. You are conflating almost unrelated things.
I'm not a specialist on that particular video processor,
so take what I write here with a little grain of salt
here and there.
Andrew Benton wrote:
On 29/06/10 11:50, Saxon Landers wrote:
Hi there, im new to the mailing list, so please correct me if i make any
mistakes.
I have used linux for some time, and wanted to make my own, so ive gone
for LFS.
I am compiling onto a SanDisk Cruzer 4gb portable USB flash drive,
Neal Murphy wrote:
On Tuesday 29 June 2010 12:57:21 Mike McCarty wrote:
[about partitions]
The mount command should be able to mount anything with a file system
in it. CD-ROMS don't have partitions, nor do native USB sticks,
[...]
An explicit example: 'mount -t ext3 /dev/sdb /mnt'. Oh
William Immendorf wrote:
When I try to convert a Texinfo document into a DVI/PS file or an PDF
file, texi2dvi complains that texinfo.tex is broken, despite it being
That's the exact full error message? texinfo.tex is broken?
Mike
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littlebat wrote:
Hi,
I am learning LFS BOOK:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/6.6/chapter05/adjusting.html
Below is a sed syntax I can't understand and haven't found a place to
learn it.
code
sed -e /^\*cpp:$/{n;s,$, -isystem /tools/include,}
/code
You already got a good
rhubarb...@poetworld.net wrote:
[...]
Unfortunately, linuxant support has been less than helpful. Apparently
they view the problem as incorrectly behaving low-level OS tools on my
box. Huh? I realize I'm not incapable of error, but I've run LFS and
their driver on my box for several
rhubarb...@poetworld.net wrote:
They are suggesting that your compiler/assembler/linker tool chain
may have a fault, I think.
I checked the messages during my build carefully and believe all were
correct. Is there a post-build test?
Apparently, yes. You try to build hsfmodem driver
Eric Miller wrote:
hey all...haven't been here since 2002 lolz.
I'm hoping to build a stripped down LFS to use on a livecd that will do one
thing only: present the user with a simple scripted text menu, and then
(based on the menu input) .dd an image to a usb thumb drive.
You might
Philippe Delavalade wrote:
Hello.
There is a typo (imho) in the wget-list of the svn-20100622 ;
line 11 is
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net//expect/expect-5.44.1.15.tar.bz2
and should be
http://prdownloads.sourceforge.net/expect/expect-5.44.1.15.tar.bz2
with one '/' and not two.
That
prakhar gaur wrote:
Dear Jai,
Instead of buying books and all.
Just start working with LFS. If you got the mail-list id, then I am
sure that you know the place to download the book(LFS-6.6)
But be sure to go through the pre-requisite reading list though.
Building LFS will not teach OS
Danny Engelbarts wrote:
Sourceforge is probably doing some url rewrite magic that doesn't account for
repeated slashes.
Then it is violating the Standard, I believe. This should be
reported to them, I think.
Mike
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Paul Rogers wrote:
I think there is an assumption being made that everybody around the
world would automagically relate to books the way we native English
speakers do. There are people who read books back to front.
Not by me. My presumption was that he did have a problem knowing
what the
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote:
On Wed, 2010-06-16 at 22:54 +1200, Simon Geard wrote:
On Tue, 2010-06-15 at 21:45 +0430, Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote:
In appendex (Dependency section), we have 2 part for each package:
The appendix is for information only. When it comes to installing
packages,
Mohsen Pahlevanzadeh wrote:
In appendex (Dependency section), we have 2 part for each package:
1.Must be installed before 2.Installation depend on.
now i don't know when i want to install package x, see 1 or 2 and
install packages before compile package x.please guide me
If you ask a
piper.guy1 wrote:
Thanks for all your tips, advice, lectures, opinions, etc. Very
positive community. I think I'm going to enjoy my LFS experience. I
That's one thing I really like here, unlike the user support lists
for standard distros, which are full of bickering and posturing.
[...]
Now
Since, with LFS, we are much more in the driver's seat when it
comes to system config, I thought perhaps a pointer to some
guidelines might be appropriate.
http://web.archive.org/web/20080119033620/www.cert.org/tech_tips/unix_configuration_guidelines.html
Mike
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Simon Geard wrote:
I quite like an idea Fedora are working on - if installed to a btrfs
partition, use it's snapshot support to provide an easy rollback option
when installing updates.
I've been meaning to try that approach myself, since I've trashed more
than a few systems while trying to
Andrew Benton wrote:
On 08/06/10 21:54, Mike McCarty wrote:
piper.guy1 wrote:
Sooo...before I do something else that I'm not suppose to do, I
thought I'd get advise first. My thinking is that I need to get a
Linux rescue or recovery CD, mount the file system on the hard drive,
and then add
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Mike McCarty wrote:
Yeah, deleting the link without changing your /etc/passwd entry
to point to a valid shell would do that.
Changing the /etc/password file won't do much. The bootscripts need
/bin/sh.
I'm talking about his host, not LFS. I have no idea what his
boot
Neal Murphy wrote:
[...]
mid-nineties. And just a couple weeks ago, I overwrote a disk that contained
half of a couple striped MD filesystems. Lost nearly 10 years of pics and
history. Another time, while redesigning the Smoothwall build system, I
Of course, you've got it all on backup.
Neal Murphy wrote:
[...]
But you are right. I had no backups and no excuses. I have an empty 400GB
drive that would have held most of that data. And there's no reason I could
not have saved all the pics to DVDs. I didn't. I lost. Oh, well. No one died,
and no critters or humans were
piper.guy1 wrote:
Hi,
Started reading and doing what the book says (6.6). Didn't take too
long before I got myself into trouble. :-(
Hee hee! Aren't we having fun! Before starting in on something
like this, be sure your backup and recovery procedure works well.
So, join the explicitly non
Bruce Dubbs wrote:
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After configure:
#ifdef TARGET_LIBC_PROVIDES_SSP
#undef TARGET_LIBC_PROVIDES_SSP
#endif
#define TARGET_LIBC_PROVIDES_SSP 1
Modern C compilers do not require that little idiom to prevent
a warning. #undefine-ing something which is not defined is not
supposed to
Neal Murphy wrote:
On Thursday 03 June 2010 04:08:33 Simon Geard wrote:
Can you be more specific about the problems you're seeing? Does the perl
executable fail to run at all, unable to link to libgdbm.so? Or is it
something less obvious?
Simon.
[...]
That's when I dug into perl's
Danny Engelbarts wrote:
On Wednesday 02 June 2010 21:22:07 Mike McCarty wrote:
Paul Rogers wrote:
have one system that trails, i.e. has exactly the package versions
specified in the HSR, and verifies that each version of LFS does in
fact install flawlessly with those prerequisites
linux fan wrote:
On 6/2/10, Danny Engelbarts d.engelba...@gmail.com wrote:
... a 6.3 system is required than the book should state 6.3 until proven
otherwise.
That is just exactly what the DEV book now requires.
Unfortunately, now we don't get to find out exactly why the original
linux fan wrote:
On 6/2/10, Danny Engelbarts d.engelba...@gmail.com wrote:
... a 6.3 system is required than the book should state 6.3 until proven
otherwise.
That is just exactly what the DEV book now requires.
Unfortunately, now we don't get to find out exactly why the original
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