Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Chris Staub
Stephen Liu wrote: Hi Hari, Why don't you just use the LiveCD? Oh, yes. I have LFS-LiveCD 6.1-3 here. I can't remember exactly whether it is necessary to intall it on the HD. OR just run it on the PC to install LFS on the empty HD, preformatted. I suppose I saw this posting before,

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Chris, No, the LiveCD cannot be installed to the hard drive - that's the point of the LiveCD. Tks for your advice. I found the document; http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/install-lfs-from-livecd.txt By Joseph M. Dupré DATE: 2005-08-13 SYNOPSIS: How to build a LFS 6.1

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Andrew Benton
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: Slackware uses an obsolete 2.4 kernel. You'll need to compile a 2.6 kernel Obsolete is a pretty strong word. Is it really obsolete? For the purpose of compiling LFS, a 2.4 kernel is obsolete. Andy --

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread silverspurg
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: Slackware uses an obsolete 2.4 kernel. You'll need to compile a 2.6 kernel Obsolete is a pretty strong word. Is it really obsolete? For the purpose of compiling LFS, a 2.4 kernel

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Obsolete is a pretty strong word. Is it really obsolete? For the purpose of compiling LFS, a 2.4 kernel is obsolete. I've built with 2.4. :) Steven http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/hostreqs.html I have to assume that

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Kevin Barnard
I used 6.1.1 that has the patch. (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter05/binutils-pass1.html) This patched 2 files I think, I'm at work away from the machine so I can't check for sure until later. The normal make works fine and ld does compile and install. It's the secondary

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Kevin Barnard
I think you are right about GCC most of that I think is around GCJ (loads of fun) I'll play around with the newer bintools and gcc and see if I get anywhere with this. Worst case is I run into another wall and have to start over with a more sane distro. In either case I'll let you know the

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Kevin Barnard wrote: I think you are right about GCC most of that I think is around GCJ (loads of fun) 1) Please don't post in HTML 2) Please don't top-post http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/index.html#netiquette -- JH -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

RE: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Richard Westfield
No, the LiveCD cannot be installed to the hard drive - that's the point of the LiveCD. That's not true. I've got the LiveCD installed on a partition, and have been using that for my builds. LFS 6.1 is the only distro I've found, in my very quick research, that met all of the host

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Chris Staub
Richard Westfield wrote: No, the LiveCD cannot be installed to the hard drive - that's the point of the LiveCD. That's not true. I've got the LiveCD installed on a partition, and have been using that for my builds. LFS 6.1 is the only distro I've found, in my very quick research, that met

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Hari
On 12/2/05, [EMAIL PROTECTED] [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: Slackware uses an obsolete 2.4 kernel. You'll need to compile a 2.6 kernel Obsolete is a pretty strong word. Is it really obsolete? Just for academic interest, I bought an 8 proc IBM eServer with

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-02 Thread Ken Fuchs
[EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: On Fri, 2 Dec 2005, Andrew Benton wrote: Slackware uses an obsolete 2.4 kernel. You'll need to compile a 2.6 kernel Obsolete is a pretty strong word. Is it really obsolete? Andy wrote: For the purpose of compiling LFS, a 2.4 kernel is obsolete. Not quite true.

FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-01 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Andrew Benton wrote: Bing. You hit the nail on the head there. As Richard said, Fedora Core 4 isn't a suitable distro to build the stable version of the book. It should work OK for the development version but that may not be suitable if it's your first attempt at LFS. I've had good results

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-01 Thread Richard A Downing
On Thu, 01 Dec 2005 10:04:50 -0500 Jeremy Huntwork [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Andrew Benton wrote: Bing. You hit the nail on the head there. As Richard said, Fedora Core 4 isn't a suitable distro to build the stable version of the book. It should work OK for the development version but

Re: FC4 as a host [Was: Re: file format not recognized from ld right from the start????]

2005-12-01 Thread Stephen Liu
Hi Hari, Why don't you just use the LiveCD? Oh, yes. I have LFS-LiveCD 6.1-3 here. I can't remember exactly whether it is necessary to intall it on the HD. OR just run it on the PC to install LFS on the empty HD, preformatted. I suppose I saw this posting before, installing LFS direct