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 _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list PLUG@lists.pdxlinux.org http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug