Re: [lfs-support] lfs 7.4 / Section 6 - Building the LFS System as sudo?

2013-12-01 Thread Douglas R. Reno
You want to run these commands as root (by using sudo). Douglas Reno -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: [lfs-support] lfs 7.4 / Section 6 - Building the LFS System as sudo?

2013-12-01 Thread Chris Staub
On 12/01/2013 06:27 PM, frozen tuesday wrote: Is it sufficient to sudo before every command in the rest of the book, or do I need to find a way to log in as the user root? Thanks. You stay root anyway as long as you're in the chroot. I see the chroot is coming up in 6.4 but

Re: [lfs-support] lfs 7.4 / Section 6 - Building the LFS System as sudo?

2013-11-29 Thread Chris Staub
On 11/29/2013 01:56 PM, frozen tuesday wrote: Hello all -- Thanks to the help I have received here or elsewhere, I have made it as far as section III in the online instructions: Building the LFS System. I am using Linux Mint 15 as my host computer which only allows me to sudo before

Re: [lfs-support] lfs 7.4 / Section 6 - Building the LFS System as sudo?

2013-11-29 Thread Douglas R. Reno
Hello, On Ubuntu and Mint, I found out that if you run: sudo passwd root And set the password, you can run su - root and login as root. I do this as one of the first things when setting up a Ubuntu or Mint system because I cannot stand sudo. Hope this helps! Douglas Reno --

Re: [lfs-support] lfs 7.4 / Section 6 - Building the LFS System as sudo?

2013-11-29 Thread Walter P. Little
On Fri, Nov 29, 2013 at 10:56 AM, frozen tuesday frozen.tues...@gmail.comwrote: Hello all -- Thanks to the help I have received here or elsewhere, I have made it as far as section III in the online instructions: Building the LFS System. I am using Linux Mint 15 as my host computer which