On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 03:40 +0300, Face wrote:
it has been over 2 months since my first try i think. going through
the book manually over and over, I had many mistypes which force me to
start over. Therefore, I put them in a script so i can avoid mistypes.
To start with, copy-paste from the
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 11:14 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote:
OTOH, my version (with X and GNOME) seems to switch to 80x25 very
easily when I press CTRL-ALT-F1 through CTRL-ALT-F6, so the kernel
must support _something_ along those lines.
You're using the Nouveau driver? The X-only drivers like
Dear All,
I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created while, Installing the
host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5).
Do I need to partition it again, its a ext3 fs.
Or I can directly mount it in /mnt/lfs?, as its already mounted in /media.
Thanking you,
Prakhar Gaur
after each command a Footer script will be call with a message saying
press any key to continue or q to Exit
so if i did not see any error i will press enter and if there is an
error i will exit.
I am not saying this is the best way but the script only print stderr
and i will know if the
what do you mean by I suggest trying to automate that process
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 8:11 AM, Simon Geard delga...@ihug.co.nz wrote:
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 03:40 +0300, Face wrote:
it has been over 2 months since my first try i think. going through
the book manually over and over, I had many
Hey
I am a newbie too ... correct me if I am wrong..
I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created while, Installing the
host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5).
Do I need to partition it again, its a ext3 fs.
If you are NOT using this partition for any other work, go ahead and
make it
If you are comfortable with using ext3 vs ext4 or rieserfs or some
other filesystem, it should be fine. Make sure it doesn't have
anything in it and it should work fine.
On 7/3/10, PRAKHAR gaur prakhar_aaid...@hotmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created
On 03/07/10 00:17, Baho Utot wrote:
Neal Murphy wrote:
Cleverly crafted, you should be able to catch most of the errors when they
happen while maintaining a readable script.
If using bash a simple:
#!/bin/bash -e
set +h
at the top of the script works, bails on any error
One nitpick
On 03/07/10 09:57, shashank kumar wrote:
Hey
I am a newbie too ... correct me if I am wrong..
I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created while, Installing the
host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5).
Do I need to partition it again, its a ext3 fs.
If you are NOT using this
On 03/07/10 07:40, Face wrote:
what do you mean by I suggest trying to automate that process
He just meant that writing scripts is hard to get right. Though in my
experience, it's worth the effort in the long run. Partly for the
benefit of learning the programming language you've chosen and
On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 2:56 PM, Robb Bossley robb.boss...@gmail.com wrote:
If you are comfortable with using ext3 vs ext4 or rieserfs or some
other filesystem, it should be fine. Make sure it doesn't have
anything in it and it should work fine.
On 7/3/10, PRAKHAR gaur
On Sat, 3 Jul 2010 14:27:17 +0530
shashank kumar er.shashank.ku...@gmail.com wrote:
Or I can directly mount it in /mnt/lfs?, as its already mounted
in /media.
two things...
1. if a partition is already mounted you cant mount it again unless it
is first unmounted.
According to my
On 7/3/10, PRAKHAR gaur prakhar_aaid...@hotmail.com wrote:
Dear All,
I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created while, Installing the
host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5).
Do I need to partition it again, its a ext3 fs.
Or I can directly mount it in /mnt/lfs?, as its already
On 3 July 2010 14:28, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
If the 50GB host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5) is needed to run (yes,
I think), then you need to use a separate partition to contain the
destination LFS system. I think 12 GB is a good size. 5GB is a little
too small if many things
Ken Moffat wrote:
On 3 July 2010 14:28, linux fan linuxscra...@gmail.com wrote:
If the 50GB host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5) is needed to run (yes,
I think), then you need to use a separate partition to contain the
destination LFS system. I think 12 GB is a good size. 5GB is a little
too
Can the dedicated partition that I use for my lfs be a logical volume created
from a dedicated partition?
This is what my setup looks like:
/dev/sda1/boot
Volume Groups
vg_deltaflyer
Physical View
/dev/sda2
Logical View
lv_root
On 7/3/10, Ken Moffat zarniwhoo...@googlemail.com wrote:
destination LFS system. I think 12 GB is a good size. 5GB is a little
too small if many things will be installed (a typical desktop system
with lots of goodies).
I shudder to think about what you are using to fill that up ;) I'm
On 7/3/10, Andrew Benton b3n...@gmail.com wrote:
If using bash a simple:
#!/bin/bash -e
set +h
at the top of the script works, bails on any error
Or
set -e
A few package maintainers manage to return 0 success from configure
even when the configure fails. These may be rare or nonexistent
James Butler wrote:
Can the dedicated partition that I use for my lfs be a logical volume created
from a dedicated partition?
This is what my setup looks like:
/dev/sda1/boot
Volume Groups
vg_deltaflyer
Physical View
/dev/sda2
Logical View
hello all,
root:/sources/gmp-5.0.1# ./configure --prefix=/usr --enable-cxx
--enable-mpbsdchecking build system type...
pentium2-unknown-linux-gnu
checking host system type... pentium2-unknown-linux-gnu
checking for a BSD-compatible install... /tools/bin/install -c
checking whether build
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