Re: [lfs-support] Preparing for new LFS build

On 14 June 2014 00:02, Baho Utot baho-u...@invalid.com wrote: On Friday, June 13, 2014 11:46:21 PM Armin K. wrote: On 06/13/2014 09:34 PM, Dan McGhee wrote: Getting ready to build LFS-7.5 and want to head off some situations before I begin. Somewhere in my last {,B}LFS build, I lost--or

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.5 Fails to Start after BIOS and Windows Update

On 15 August 2014 19:49, Dan McGhee beesn...@grm.net wrote: I apologize in advance for any ranting I might do. If it weren't for iTunes, I wouldn't use Windows. I installed a BIOS update from HP and then followed up with an upgrade from Windows 8 to Windows 8.1. Upon reboot, I went right to

Re: [lfs-support] Status of Systemd and UEFI Bios Stuff

On 21 August 2014 10:08, Emanuele Rusconi ema...@gmail.com wrote: On 21 August 2014 08:28, Alan Feuerbacher alan...@comcast.net wrote: It's almost sounding like UEFI is a big nothing, except for Windows. No? Alan It's a big except, if you want to dual-boot. I solved my UEFI

Re: [lfs-support] 64-bit Blues

I have one quite large ext4 partition, which has my 32-bit LFS. There is also a much smaller ext4 partition, which is big enough to hold a working LFS, but may not be big enough to compile one (about 60% full with a bare-bones LFS in it). This smaller partition currently has my

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 | Unsuccessful reboot

I am not sure: is the kernel meant to create the /dev/mapper LVM logical volumes or it's the initrd's job? And how can I fix the mkinitramfs errors? The kernel creates /dev/mapper. So, with or without an initrd the devices should be listed under /dev, providing, of course, that the kernel

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 | Unsuccessful reboot

On 19 October 2014 11:37, Andrei Banu andrei.b...@redhost.ro wrote: Hi, /dev/mapper is created but it is virtually empty (except for a char device). I was asking what populates /dev/mapper with the LV devices. OK, that's all you get from the kernel, the other devices are created by you

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 | Unsuccessful reboot

On 19 October 2014 14:53, William Harrington kb0...@berzerkula.org wrote: On Oct 19, 2014, at 6:15, Andrei Banu andrei.b...@redhost.ro wrote: I am trying to build the classic LFS 7.6 with the only difference that it's on LVM instead of normal partitions. I am quite fuzzy about systemd so

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 | Unsuccessful reboot

Thank you for your suggestion. Yes, I should read more than LFS alone, I know. I took a look at dmesg and used lspci to confirm it: I have RTL 8168d / 8111d NIC. However in the menuconfig I can only find 8139C, 8129/8130/8139 and 8169. So it seems I am out of luck. It's the r8169 driver

Re: [lfs-support] dns settings in the static configuration

On 2 November 2014 03:18, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Ken Moffat wrote: What I do not understand is the *concept* of switching between static and dhcp as a regular thing to do. My experience is that ALL modern broadband connection devices seem to offer dhcp, so what is the

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.6 Kernel Panic

On 2 November 2014 18:00, Anthony Price anth...@elenmar.com wrote: I have just finished building LFS 7.6 but when I boot, it fails with ' unable to mount root fs on unknown block 8,2' I compiled the Kernel with support for SATA and ext4 in the kernel (i.e. not modules) and carried out

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.6 with asterisk

On 26 November 2014 at 09:40, akhiezer lf...@cruziero.com wrote: Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 09:10:54 + From: lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer) To: LFS Support List lfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org Subject: Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.6 with asterisk Date: Wed, 26 Nov 2014 14:00:38

Re: [lfs-support] Swap script not working for me

On 5 December 2014 at 20:27, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Melville wrote: Just a point of information: the swap script set to run at S20swap in /etc/rc.d/rcS.d comes up too soon and displays an error message, but S60swap works OK. Obviously, working with USB flash media

Re: [lfs-support] Swap script not working for me

I don't have one partition, as such, on the SSD; btrfs doesn't require a partitioning scheme. It's true that it can exist happily on a partition, but one can, alternatively, give btrfs a bare drive (mkfs.btrfs /dev/sda) and then use the pooling benefits of the filesystem, together with

Re: [lfs-support] Oops.

On 12 January 2015 at 19:45, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Paul Rogers wrote: I just read the North Korean Red Star Linux has world-writable udev rules AND rcsysinit. Perhaps not quite ready to be world-wide hackers? Hackers or crackers? Perhaps they just want to be able to

Re: [lfs-support] Can't Mount Root Filesystem

On 18 March 2015 at 09:47, Роберт Киммель robert.l.kim...@live.ru wrote: On 18/3/15 17:14, Pierre Labastie wrote: Le 18/03/2015 09:11, Роберт Киммель a écrit : Greetings All, I've been building LFS systems on and off for more than a decade, but I've been struggling with this one for a

Re: [lfs-support] Can't Mount Root Filesystem

You say that you've checked all the relevant /etc and /boot files, and they seem OK, but it looks to me that the kernel panic is resulting from the rootfs being listed in the wrong place. I've certainly had that error in the past, so I've checked it quite a bit. When I boot with the LFS

Re: [lfs-support] Framebuffers

On 5 March 2015 at 23:53, Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm wrote: last year. I find Syslinux much easier to build, configure and use. It's small, light, and fast. Surely, all we require of a bootloader is to boot the system. Again, as you say: simpler is better. I used it to boot

[lfs-support] Email address variation.

Bruce, my email address, like many in the UK, started out as googlemail rather than gmail. I'm signed up with LFS and BLFS with the original address. At first that address appeared in my posts, but now it always shows as gmail, even though it is sent as googlemail. This wouldn't be a problem if

Re: [lfs-support] Framebuffers

On 4 March 2015 at 06:39, Paul Rogers paulgrog...@fastmail.fm wrote: You may want to check, but I think the i7 processor has an Intel GPU on the chip. This is neither here nor there for my question, but some do, some don't. This is an i7-940, Socket LGA1366, Tylersburg X58 Express chipset.

Re: [lfs-support] Why has /etc/group got a systemd-journal entry?

On 5 April 2015 at 18:10, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Hazel Russman wrote: In LFS 7.7 (non-systemd edition) there is a systemd-related entry in /etc/group. Is that required? No, it's not required, but there to maximize consistency between the books. It could also be seen as

[lfs-support] Ping

Is there any reason why we use ping from inetutils rather than the version from iputils. I realise that we don't install iputils, but why? I'm asking this because it would appear that the former won't tolerate the same alias (hostname) being entered in /etc/hosts for both IPv4 and IPv6, but the

Re: [lfs-support] Ping

On 21 August 2015 at 16:43, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Melville wrote: Is there any reason why we use ping from inetutils rather than the version from iputils. I realise that we don't install iputils, but why? Why not? There is no need to change. Even though most

Re: [lfs-support] Ping

On 21 August 2015 at 19:10, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Melville wrote: It was ftp and telnet that I was thinking of, along with rcp, rexec, rlogin, rsh and tftp. Surely, ifconfig has been marked as deprecated for some time and replaced with iproute2. I agree

Re: [lfs-support] Ping

On 21 August 2015 at 18:35, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Melville wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 16:43, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com mailto:bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Melville wrote: Is there any reason why we use ping from inetutils rather than

Re: [lfs-support] Ping

On 21 August 2015 at 20:41, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Melville wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 19:10, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com mailto:bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Melville wrote: It was ftp and telnet that I was thinking of, along with rcp

Re: [lfs-support] Ping

On 23 August 2015 at 19:51, William Harrington kb0...@berzerkula.org wrote: On Sun, 23 Aug 2015 12:28:20 -0500 Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: I'm open to disabling ping/ping6 in inetutils and adding another package to replace them, but I need to get someone to figure the

Re: [lfs-support] Ping

On 22 August 2015 at 17:32, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Melville wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 20:41, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: Richard Melville wrote: On 21 August 2015 at 19:10, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com mailto:bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote

Re: [lfs-support] Ping

On 23 August 2015 at 20:40, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: William Harrington wrote: Also IPV6 targets add ping6, but it also needs gcrypt or crypto support for MD5. So either openssl, gcrypt or both need to be installed before iputils for ping6. That's a deal breaker. The

Re: [lfs-support] Security issues

On 23 October 2015 at 17:47, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > Richard Melville wrote: >> >> I'm currently doing a security audit on all my LFS systems and I found >> that one is running udev-181. The question is: are there any security >> issues linked

Re: [lfs-support] Security issues

On 23 October 2015 at 19:16, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > Richard Melville wrote: >> >> On 23 October 2015 at 17:47, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Richard Melville wrote: >>>> >>>> >&g

Re: [lfs-support] Security issues

On 23 October 2015 at 20:53, William Harrington <kb0...@berzerkula.org> wrote: > On Fri, October 23, 2015 18:07, Richard Melville wrote: >> On 23 October 2015 at 17:47, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: >>> Richard Melville wrote: >>>> >>&

Re: [lfs-support] I found a mistake in book 7.8 section 5.5

On 25 October 2015 at 15:10, Craig Garner wrote: > > > On Sun, Oct 25, 2015 at 10:59 AM, Michael Havens wrote: >> >> Here are the instructions in question: >> >> tar -xf ../mpfr-3.1.3.tar.xz >> mv -v mpfr-3.1.3 mpfr >> tar -xf ../gmp-6.0.0a.tar.xz >> mv

Re: [lfs-support] I found a mistake in book 7.8 section 5.5

On 25 October 2015 at 16:44, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > Richard Melville wrote: > >>> If you have a recent tar, it will identify the compression for you. Add >>> a v >>> if you want to see the files. >> >> >> Not that rec

Re: [lfs-support] Security issues

On 24 October 2015 at 13:29, Richard Melville <richard.melvill...@googlemail.com> wrote: > On 23 October 2015 at 20:53, William Harrington <kb0...@berzerkula.org> wrote: >> On Fri, October 23, 2015 18:07, Richard Melville wrote: >>> On 23 October 2015 at 17:47, Bruc

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.8 cannot boot

On 10 November 2015 at 18:04, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Tim Squadrito wrote: > >> so I finished making LFS 7.8 "bootable". the reason I put bootable in >> quotes is because I followed the directions but when I try to boot the >> system, it says error no such partition. what can

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.7, Ch 6.6

On 3 January 2016 at 00:33, Paul Rogers wrote: >> Why don't you build Chapter 5 on a system that has the proper tools >> and copy /mnt/lfs/tools to the CentOS system? > > This CentOS 6.6 is the only x86-64 system I have. The alternative would > be CLFS from an i686

Re: [lfs-support] Can't build Glibc-2.22 in LFS-7.8

On 6 January 2016 at 07:58, Paul Rogers wrote: >> I was able to replace the module, and running memtest86 again showed > > You know that sometimes just the connectors will cause problems? Seen > that more times than I can count, albeit more in the olden days. The >

Re: [lfs-support] Thoughts on enhanced security

On 30 December 2015 at 21:47, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > There is always a tradeoff between security and convenience. How much > inconvenience you will but up with depends on the value of the data on your > system. You have to decide the value for yourself. From experience,

Re: [lfs-support] Thoughts on enhanced security

On 30 December 2015 at 19:05, Paul Rogers wrote: > I'm still thinking about in/ex-clusions for my LFS build. I've only had > to deal with my own systems, a somewhat restricted set of needs. > > What are the circumstances under which one needs, or does not, the > enhanced

Re: [lfs-support] ipv6 and ifconfig

On 12 January 2016 at 19:05, William Harrington wrote: > On Tue, January 12, 2016 18:32, Michael F. Trombley jr. wrote: >> Hello all. >> >> >> I am having an issue with ifconfig and ipv6. >> >> IPV6 is not showning when I run the ifconfig command. I have IPV6 compiled >>

[lfs-support] Messages not arriving at your end - test

Bruce, there is a definite issue at your end with my messages not appearing in the archives, even though I can see my replies at my end. It may be the same issue that I had before where I have one gmail account which ends in either .gmail or .googlemail respectively. Although, before, my LFS

Re: [lfs-support] Messages not arriving at your end - test

> On 16 Jue 2016 at 10:58, Richard Melville <richard.melvill...@gmail.com> > wrote: > On 16 June 2016 at 10:23, Richard Melville > <richard.melvill...@googlemail.com> wrote: >> Bruce, there is a definite issue at your end with my messages not >> appearing in th

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.7 i686 build failure

> On 15 June 2016 at 02:11, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > I tried to fire up my P6 yesterday but there seemed to be a power issue. I left it plugged in and today I noticed some LEDs flashing. I tried to restart it and it worked. Curious. It's like a battery

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.7 i686 build failure

On 19 June 2016 at 20:28, William Harrington <kb0...@berzerkula.org> wrote: > On Fri, 17 Jun 2016 22:35:42 +0100 > Richard Melville <richard.melvill...@googlemail.com> wrote: > >> > On 15 June 2016 at 02:11, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: >&

Re: [lfs-support] Segmentation fault

On 10 January 2016 at 17:58, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> >> On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 04:12:34PM +, Ken Moffat wrote: >>> >>> >>> One of my machines is somewhat prone to "having a bad day", when it >>> is compiling, and I think I very occasionally (much less

Re: [lfs-support] LFS - The Force Awakens!

On 17 January 2016 at 03:41, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sat, Jan 16, 2016 at 02:21:33PM -0800, Scott Czepiel wrote: >> On Jan 16, 2016, at 4:47 AM, Aleksandar Kuktin wrote: >> >> > So was Lord of the Rings. Lets not forget LOTR. :) >> >> But of course!

Re: [lfs-support] O/T - loading distros *after* lfs

On 5 February 2016 at 17:47, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Feb 05, 2016 at 10:39:33AM +, akhiezer wrote: >> >> Don't let 'em (2ndary-os's) fk around with your main os - at least, at >> (2ndary-os) install time - don't let them even see it: perhaps - if using >> a single

Re: [lfs-support] O/T - loading distros *after* lfs

On 5 February 2016 at 05:29, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Ken Moffat wrote: >> >> Sorry for asking an O/T question here, but -chat seems to be full of >> people who don't actually use LFS (judging from replies I've seen >> there in the past few months). >> >> I've got a new

Re: [lfs-support] Why does the udevadm settle command drive my video card crazy?

On 16 February 2017 at 07:06, Hazel Russman wrote: > On Wed, 15 Feb 2017 01:38:56 -0600 > "Douglas R. Reno" wrote: > > > On Wed, Feb 15, 2017 at 12:45 AM, Hazel Russman < > hazeldeb...@googlemail.com> > > wrote: > > > > > I'm replying to my own

[lfs-support] 6.32. Readline-6.3

Just a point of information: wouldn't using the --with-curses configure option provide the same result as "make SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses" and "make SHLIB_LIBS=-lncurses install"? Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html

[lfs-support] Adjusting the Toolchain

I'm just in the process of running over (and modifying) my build scripts. I'm currently looking at "Adjusting the Toolchain", chapter 6.10 in the current stable book, and a question arose in my mind. Wouldn't it be better to copy ld-new rather than move it? Doing so would keep ld-new around in

[lfs-support] Stray random character in 5.10. GCC-6.2.0 - Pass 2

A minor issue: there is a stray letter "n" between 2.9 and GB in the line "Required disk space" Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A:

[lfs-support] 7.10-systemd stable Ch 6.17 GCC-6.2.0 tests

As an experiment I'm building this on an old dual core Atom processor with 8 GB RAM. The GCC tests were very slow (of course) but to my surprise exited with only the two "unexpected" failures in the libstdc++ test suite. However, while the tests were running I noticed some output to the console

Re: [lfs-support] zlib-1.2.10 md5 sum?

On 3 January 2017 at 20:15, Pierre Labastie wrote: > I have: > pierre@:/sources$ md5sum zlib-1.2.10.tar.xz > 40f9e5b387a917c60fc0981619dcdfba zlib-1.2.10.tar.xz > > And book says: MD5 sum: d9794246f853d15ce0fcbf79b9a3cf13 That's the md5sum for the .gz version. > >

Re: [lfs-support] What is the best way to backup whole lfs system?

On 31 December 2016 at 13:27, ssmtpmailtesting ssmtpmailtesting wrote: > I did this: cp -arf /mnt/lfs /media/sda7 You don't need both the -a and the -r options as -a includes -r (or -R). Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ:

Re: [lfs-support] Using an SSD with LFS

On 25 April 2017 at 14:42, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > On Mon, 2017-04-24 at 13:28 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > > > Since I'm assembling hardware to get myself a Linux system, I'm > thinking > > > of getting an SSD device (the older type or the

Re: [lfs-support] Anyone tried the AMD Ryzen 7 1700 processor on LFS?

On 6 August 2017 at 17:56, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Sun, Aug 06, 2017 at 06:38:45PM +0300, Thanos Baloukas wrote: > > On 06/08/2017 05:57 μμ, Alan Feuerbacher wrote: > > > On 8/5/2017 10:58 PM, Thanos Baloukas wrote: > > > > > > > I'm going to buy a new system to speed up

Re: [lfs-support] [blfs-support] LFS on Windows

n 16 May 2017 at 15:44, akhiezer <lf...@cruziero.com> wrote: > > From: Richard Melville <6tric...@gmail.com> > > Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 13:19:19 +0100 > > > > > > On 16 May 2017 at 11:57, Simon Geard <delga...@ihug.co.nz> wrote: > > > >

Re: [lfs-support] [blfs-support] LFS on Windows

On 16 May 2017 at 18:20, akhiezer <lf...@cruziero.com> wrote: > > From: Richard Melville <6tric...@gmail.com> > > Date: Tue, 16 May 2017 16:18:19 +0100 > > > > n 16 May 2017 at 15:44, akhiezer <lf...@cruziero.com> wrote: > > > > > > F

Re: [lfs-support] [blfs-support] LFS on Windows

On 17 May 2017 at 01:09, Walter P. Little <walterplit...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 4:38 PM, Ken Moffat <zarniwh...@ntlworld.com> > wrote: > >> On Tue, May 16, 2017 at 10:57:04PM +1200, Simon Geard wrote: >> > On Tue, 2017-05

Re: [lfs-support] [blfs-support] LFS on Windows

On 16 May 2017 at 11:57, Simon Geard <delga...@ihug.co.nz> wrote: > On Tue, 2017-05-16 at 11:03 +0100, Richard Melville wrote: > > Have you missed the worldwide condemnation of Microsoft where Windows > > has allowed crackers to cripple systems, including our own N

Re: [lfs-support] what doing after error ch5.17.

On 13 October 2017 at 06:20, William Harrington wrote: > > > > On Oct 12, 2017, at 10:33, Armin K. wrote: > > > >> On 12.10.2017 12:49, Gdsi wrote: > >> Hi. Explain what doing after error ch5.17. Bison-3.0.4>make check: > >>

Re: [lfs-support] LFS8.1 chapter 5.10 : /tools/bin/gcc is dynamically linked to host linker

On 1 July 2018 at 23:35, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > On 07/01/2018 02:53 PM, Pierre Labastie wrote: > >> >> It shows up for me too, even after doing "source .bash_profile". I think >> debian sets this in /etc/bash.bashrc, which is executed at startup, >> according >> to "man bash". >> > > There is no

Re: [lfs-support] Page Table Isolation

On 5 January 2018 at 22:28, Paul Rogers wrote: > > Likewise, I'm not betting kernel patches will get pushed down to the > kernels that support those old systems. ext3 is not supported in the > latest kernels, so instructions to install the latest kernels will leave >

Re: [lfs-support] stow for package management?

On 6 January 2018 at 02:08, Michael Shell wrote: > On Fri, 5 Jan 2018 20:51:58 + > Jorge Almeida wrote: > > > I just found out about stow. It just seems too good to be true. So: > > did I misunderstood something? Any gotchas that are not obvious?

Re: [lfs-support] Some blfs programs expect /usr/bin/python

On 8 March 2018 at 17:15, Hazel Russman wrote: > On Thu, 8 Mar 2018 10:11:23 -0600 > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > > >Ken Moffat wrote: > > > I admire your optimism that you will be able to build (what I assume > > > is) a desktop system without

Re: [lfs-support] Some blfs programs expect /usr/bin/python

On 13 March 2018 at 16:11, Bruce Dubbs <bruce.du...@gmail.com> wrote: > On 03/13/2018 04:49 AM, Richard Melville wrote: > >> On 8 March 2018 at 17:15, Hazel Russman <hazeldeb...@googlemail.com >> <mailto:hazeldeb...@googlemail.com>> wrote: >> >>

Re: [lfs-support] Host system requiremens

On 13 March 2018 at 19:12, Paul Rogers wrote: > > Hazel, a little late in replying, I know, but I agree, it is annoying to > > have to install two versions of Python. Of course, the Python Community > > would say that there is only one version of Python now and that is

Re: [lfs-support] Kernel Config, SSD

On 6 March 2018 at 16:29, Rob wrote: > Does anything special need to be done with the kernel for optimal use > of solid state drives? > I recall something about turning on something called trimming, but > I don't remember much more than that. > Maybe check this out:-

Re: [lfs-support] Creating initial partition when disk names not persistent

On Sun, 7 Oct 2018 at 16:43, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > On 10/07/2018 12:58 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > On Sun, Oct 07, 2018 at 07:25:55AM +0200, Theodore Driscoll wrote: > >> Hi > >> > >> my daily-use machine runs openSuse. To experiment with LFS I added a > >> second SATA HDD. > >> > >>

Re: [lfs-support] Announcing Basic BLFS (beta)

On 26 September 2018 at 13:59, Xi Ruoyao wrote: > On 2018-09-26 12:06 +0100, Hazel Russman wrote: > > On Tue, 25 Sep 2018 22:25:33 +0100 > > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > Second question: can you https:// to google ? > > Yes. And to Linux Questions. It's only the LFS site that's causing > > problems.

Re: [lfs-support] Adjusting tool chain.

On 13 September 2018 at 22:19, Paul Rogers wrote: > > > In any event, don't get old! > > It's better than the alternative. > > > >-- Bruce > > There's a difference between "getting old" and ageing. Just don't forget: > "If I knew I was going to live this long, I'd have taken better care of

Re: [lfs-support] System Configuration on a USB stick?

On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 21:23, Thomas Trepl wrote: > Am Freitag, den 15.03.2019, 14:00 -0700 schrieb Pei Jia: > > > > Hello: > > Finally, I successfully built LFS, and now I come to Chapter 7 System > Configuration. > > Chapter 7: System Configuration > > Chapter 8: Making the LFS System Bootable

Re: [lfs-support] Moving working LFS to a different computer

On Tue, 30 Apr 2019 at 17:53, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > On 4/30/19 8:21 AM, Scott Harvey wrote: > > My last question (for now), and it’s a serious one, if slightly OT from > > the thread title. > > > > Trying to do this has illuminated the enormous gaps in my knowledge, and > > I’ve tried to bluff my

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-8.4 swapfile

On Fri, 26 Jul 2019 at 23:38, Baho Utot wrote: > > On 7/26/19 6:21 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > > On 7/26/19 5:03 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > >> > >> On 7/26/19 5:49 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >>> On 7/26/19 4:15 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > Why is swap enabled so early in the boot process? > > If

Re: [lfs-support] v 9.0: Chpt 6.46 Kmod make error: /usr/lib/liblzma.so: file not recognized: Is a directory

On Wed, 16 Oct 2019 at 01:48, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Tue, Oct 15, 2019 at 07:09:30PM -0500, Trent wrote: > > I am rebuilding again, and this time on a SSD drive connected to a USB > > adapter. Going much faster. > > > > I came up on this. > > > > in Chapter 6.46 > > > > >

Re: [lfs-support] Important software missing from LFS Basic System

On Thu, 24 Oct 2019 at 03:53, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Wed, Oct 23, 2019 at 08:46:06PM -0500, Trent wrote: > > Is there any reason LFS does not include WGET? > > > > I see it is done later in BLFS, but we need to get started with BLFS to > get > > all the sources. > > > > Trent > > > > There are

Re: [lfs-support] v9.0 Chptr 6.21 GCC configure returns: "Building GCC requires GMP 4.2+, MPFR 2.4.0+ and MPC 0.8.0+"

On Fri, 11 Oct 2019 at 20:22, Ken Moffat wrote: > On Fri, Oct 11, 2019 at 01:32:20PM -0500, Trent wrote: > The point of LFS is to learn from our mistakes, but if you get > nowhere with working out what went wrong, try rerunning the 6.19 > instructions for mpc and see if the header and library

Re: [lfs-support] v9.0 Chptr 6.21 GCC configure returns: "Building GCC requires GMP 4.2+, MPFR 2.4.0+ and MPC 0.8.0+"

On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 19:09, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > On 10/13/19 12:26 PM, Richard Melville wrote: > > On Sun, 13 Oct 2019 at 17:31, Bruce Dubbs > <mailto:bruce.du...@gmail.com>> wrote: > > > > On 10/13/19 10:56 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: > > > On Su