On Sun, Feb 28, 2010 at 1:35 AM, Michael Robinson
<plu...@robinson-west.com> wrote:
> I finished getting a Linux from scratch system working.
>
> A few things missing, there is no netstat command, no ifconfig command,
> and no dns/dhcp commands.

There's an extension to LFS called Beyond Linux From Scratch (BLFS),
here are the pages from BLFS about these things:

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/basicnet/net-tools.html
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/basicnet/dhcpclient.html
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/view/stable/basicnet/bind-utils.html

> Pulled out my bash book and played a bit with the shell prompt.
>
> I don't know how to set the hostname, so the host name comes up as
> (none).

I googled for "setting hostname LFS" and got this:

http://www.mail-archive.com/lfs-b...@linuxfromscratch.org/msg11702.html


My /etc/sysconfig/networking file (in Fedora 12) contains this line:
HOSTNAME=my.systems.fqdn

> I haven't gotten my wireless logitech keyboard to work with this system,
> maybe I need to add something to the kernel?

Sounds like you need bluetooth support. There isn't anything on this
in BLFS as far as I could find, so here's the package that most
distros (maybe all of them) use:

http://www.bluez.org/

Vincent Damewood
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