[lfs-support] LFS Dev Release Schedules
I'm thinking about building a new LFS system based on the development. How often are the development updated? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: How to proceed to BLFS
On Sunday 05 February 2006 02:00, boovarahan boovarahan wrote: Hi All ! Now that I have a stable LFS system, I want to go on to BLFS. But the problem is I can not use my LFS system usefully because it does not have network/text based web browser be default. So it is difficult to read the BLFS book which is stored in my hdd. Please guide me. Boovarahan S Well, I agree what that the LFS book as to say about the state of a LFS system at completion. The system you have created in this book is quite minimal, and most likely will not have the functionality you would need to be able to continue forward. By installing a few extra packages from the BLFS book while still in our current chroot environment, you can leave yourself in a much better position to continue on once you reboot into your new LFS installation. Installing a text mode web browser, such as Lynx, you can easily view the BLFS book in one virtual terminal, while building packages in another. The GPM package will also allow you to perform copy/paste actions in your virtual terminals. Lastly, if you are in a situation where static IP configuration does not meet your networking requirements, installing packages such as Dhcpcd or PPP at this point might also be useful. Hmm Why doesn't that mention setting up iptables and configuring a firewall? -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: spawnig too fast [Off Topic]
On Tuesday 31 January 2006 09:33, 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? :-) Oh boy, more LFS humor. Is this one of those distros that Iljia was talking about? b.) Use and out of the box distro suck as Debian, Suse, Redhat, Fedora, -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: (no subject)
Pubudu wrote: Hi . This problem occurred when i was building LFS when i entered the command in my chrooted environment expect -c spawn ls it displayed the message The system has no more ptys. Ask your system administrator to create more Then i tried the same command in my host system (fedora core 3) .It executed correctly. Can anyone help me to create ptys in my chrooted environment. - This mail sent is sent from ENTC WebMail system using IMP: http://horde.org/imp/ Did you see this? http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html#no-ptys At one point I remember getting this message even after reviewing this FAQ. I was building the system in X. I didn't have the problem if I didn't run X. I guess X must have used the ptys in my instance. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Starting with Slackware 10.1
Jedediah Klusman wrote: Im new to the LFS community, and i have only found one distrobution that supports my raid card. I plan on using Slackware 10.1, however my question is what packages do i have to have in order to start building LFS? Also how should i go about partitioning my hard drive in order to make a clean install of LFS? I want my final LFS build to look something like this /dev/ataraid/d0 d0p1 / 2000MBACTIVE d0p2ntfs 4000MB d0p3ntfs 4MB d0p4ext13000MB d0p5/swap 1024MB d0p6/var1000MB d0p7/home2000MB d0p8/tmp876MB d0p9/usr8000MB Guess im confused as how to keep the slackware stuff from geting mixed up with my LFS system, cause it will install crap into the partitions. _ Express yourself instantly with MSN Messenger! Download today - it's FREE! http://messenger.msn.click-url.com/go/onm00200471ave/direct/01/ I'm working on a LFS 6.0 system that I hosted on a Slack 10 (or 10.1 I don't remember now... I blew the host system away..) You'll need to install the 2.6 kernel package since slack uses a 2.4 kernel. The default development packages should be all that are required. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Backup
All, I've just finished LFS 6.0 (Yes, I know it isn't the latest. I started on it a few days before 6.1 was announced.) I have a question. I built the LFS on a notebook with a Pentiumn M. I made an image of the LFS system using dd and restored it on a desktop with a Pentiumn 4. The desktop appears to function normally. I haven't started building BLFS yet on the desktop, but was concerned about the toolchain. Will there be a problem building BLFS on the desktop since the toolchain was built on the portable? I didn't optimize any of the packages. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: Backup
Ken Moffat wrote: On Sun, 24 Jul 2005, Richard Hamilton wrote: I built the LFS on a notebook with a Pentiumn M. I made an image of the LFS system using dd and restored it on a desktop with a Pentiumn 4. The desktop appears to function normally. I haven't started building BLFS yet on the desktop, but was concerned about the toolchain. Will there be a problem building BLFS on the desktop since the toolchain was built on the portable? I didn't optimize any of the packages. I imagine it will be fine. The base toolchain probably thinks it's on gcc's definition of i686 (that is, a pentium II with the cmov instruction). The problems people get are caused by optimisations for a specific architecture - sometimes in the kernel. The compiler from LFS-6.0 probably predates the pentium M and doesn't offer any special optimisations for it. Ken I guess I can run the config.guess in the binutils package to doublecheck. Thanks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: [RFC] New LFS Website
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: Hello Everyone: The LFS Website Team has been working on a new website for the Linux From Scratch community. We have shown it briefly before, but it is now nearly fully functional and filled with content. Our goal with this new site was to produce a simple and readable site that is easy to navigate and easy to maintain. You'll notice that we endeavored to greatly reduce the number of possible links on one page and lead the user through the site by logical grouping of data. Apart from just a redesign in the layout of the site, much has been done in rewriting the backend struture, to reduce maintainance overhead and to allow a more dynamic and up-to-date website. Please visit this new proposed site (follow the link below) and reply to the website mailing list with your thoughts or comments. We would like to hear from the community as to whether they would like to see this new design implemented. http://beta.linuxfromscratch.org/ Thank you, -- Jeremy Huntwork LFS Website Team Looks great! -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
Re: undefined reference error
developerman wrote: While compiling TCL (in building temporary system) or later when rebuiling binutils error undefined reference has occured. GLIBC test was fault with c++-types test. What to do? What is reason? Are you talking about NULL not being defined in strstr.c in the tcl package? Take a look at this: http://sourceforge.net/tracker/index.php?func=detailaid=1175161group_i d=10894atid=110894 Funny thing is that some LFS user reported the bug sourceforge, but I couldn't find anything in the LFS support archives. I ran across this error earlier this week. Isn't this a canidate for a lfs patch? I looked at the main FAQ but I didn't see how to report this type of problem. It is a bug in the tcl package. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
