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

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
On Jun 2, 2013 6:36 PM, "Ken Moffat" wrote: > > On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 06:13:10PM -0400, scott maxwell wrote: > > $ sudo mount -v -t ext4 /dev/ $LFS > > where does this command go? > > > > I found the location in the book sect. 2.4 but I'm using ext3 instead of > > ext4. Is that a problem. Do I h

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

2013-06-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 06:13:10PM -0400, scott maxwell wrote: > $ sudo mount -v -t ext4 /dev/ $LFS > where does this command go? > > I found the location in the book sect. 2.4 but I'm using ext3 instead of > ext4. Is that a problem. Do I have to start over from scratch? > If so, how do I delete a

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

2013-06-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
scott maxwell wrote: > The guys at the local linux user group said not to do this LFS project. I understand why they said that. You don't seem to be able to follow instructions. I asked you twice to not top post and you continue. Perhaps someone else will answer your questions, but it will no

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

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
$ sudo mount -v -t ext4 /dev/ $LFS where does this command go? I found the location in the book sect. 2.4 but I'm using ext3 instead of ext4. Is that a problem. Do I have to start over from scratch? If so, how do I delete all the previous steps w/o formatting my linux mint partition? The guys at t

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

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
$ sudo mount -v -t ext4 /dev/ $LFS where does this command go? On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail?

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

2013-06-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? scott maxwell wrote: > Also, what is the output of: > > $ mount > $ fdisk -l > > This is from normal user acct. and not the lf

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

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
Also, what is the output of: $ mount $ fdisk -l This is from normal user acct. and not the lfs acct. scott@scott-K52F ~ $ mount /dev/sda7 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on /sys/fs/fuse/

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

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
So where did you put the sources? The book says: mkdir -v $LFS/sources chmod -v a+wt $LFS/sources I put the sources where the book said to. What are you using for $LFS? That is, echo $LFSlfs@scott-K52F ~ $ echo $LFS /mnt/lfs I thought I was putting it on sda6 (also have windows 7 and Linux m

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

2013-06-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
scott maxwell wrote: > lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ bash version-check.sh > bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release > /bin/sh -> /bin/bash > Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.22.90.20120924 > bison (GNU Bison) 2.5 > /usr/bin/yacc -> /usr/bin/bison.yacc > bzip2, Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010. > Coreutils: 8.13 > d

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

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ bash version-check.sh bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release /bin/sh -> /bin/bash Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.22.90.20120924 bison (GNU Bison) 2.5 /usr/bin/yacc -> /usr/bin/bison.yacc bzip2, Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010. Coreutils: 8.13 diff (GNU diffutils) 3.2 find (GNU findu

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

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
scott@scott-K52F ~ $ su - lfs Password: lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ echo $LFS /mnt/lfs lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ ls -l /sources ls: cannot access /sources: No such file or directory lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:24 PM, spiky wrote: > On 02/06/13 21:15, scott maxwell wrote: > > I keep getting st

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

2013-06-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
scott maxwell wrote: > I keep getting stuck in LFS 7.3. Never gotten past Binutils 2nd pass. Now I > have all the tar files in the sources folder on the new LFS partition but > can"t get to it from mnt/lfs/sources. You don't give very much info. There should be a leading / in /mnt/lfs/sources.

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

2013-06-02 Thread spiky
On 02/06/13 21:15, scott maxwell wrote: I keep getting stuck in LFS 7.3. Never gotten past Binutils 2nd pass. Now I have all the tar files in the sources folder on the new LFS partition but can"t get to it from mnt/lfs/sources. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Current host os is Mint 14.

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

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
I keep getting stuck in LFS 7.3. Never gotten past Binutils 2nd pass. Now I have all the tar files in the sources folder on the new LFS partition but can"t get to it from mnt/lfs/sources. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Current host os is Mint 14. Thanks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mail