Hello All,
There's a rather ill natured thread on LFS Support at the moment called
Chapter 5 questions. Scott Robertson has made an interesting point:
On Fri, 04 May 2012 11:35:32 +0100
Scott Robertson scottrobertso...@yahoo.com wrote:
But do you not see from a newcomers
perspective that
I never had any confusion on that issue, because I prefer to build
everything in /usr/local/src/ anyway, and keep the tar files someplace
else entirely (currently /lsrc, because it's short to type, which means
I can't just copy and paste all the patch commands, but such is my
cross to
Although there isn't really an error,
On page 17, if the permissions are too restrictive, I think you need
to clarify what to do about it. You say to remount, but I the average
person might not know what that means. What I believe you intended
was to issue the command:
mount -o
Andrew Benton wrote:
On Fri, 04 May 2012 00:34:09 +0100
Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote:
Whew. I finally got k3b to build and work properly. There are a lot of
dependencies that I didn't know about and there are run time dependencies
too.
One runtime dependency is cdrecord
On 05/04/2012 05:11 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
Andrew Benton wrote:
On Fri, 04 May 2012 00:34:09 +0100
Bruce Dubbsbruce.du...@gmail.com wrote:
Whew. I finally got k3b to build and work properly. There are a lot of
dependencies that I didn't know about and there are run time dependencies
Scott Robertson wrote:
Hmmm, I followed the directions and typed it just as it is in the book:
mkdir -pv $LFS
mount -v -t ext3 /dev/xxx $LFS
But when I ran the mount command without any parameters to see what options
were set,
nosuid, nodev were set by default. So in my case at
On May 4, 2012, at 8:08 AM, Scott Robertson wrote:
Maybe I'm missing something, but I think that entire paragraph could be
removed. The book gives the command to mount the LFS partition as:
mount -pv $LFS -v -t ext3 /dev/xxx $LFS
And then warns, effectively, that if you did something
I'm using Ubuntu 10.04, but I am beginning to think of using something else for
this.
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