Re: relocation of the sources

2005-06-09 Thread Kev Buckley
This brought up a philosophical debate in my mind. If the book mentions moving the sources, but then proceeds to move them to a directory where only root can write, ISTM that this can be mis-interpreted as you have to download sources as root to be able to save them. If someone has to be

Re: relocation of the sources

2005-06-09 Thread Archaic
On Thu, Jun 09, 2005 at 02:32:53PM +0100, Kev Buckley wrote: Hope that makes sense. Everything you said made perfect sense. However, all the sources unpacked are over 1 GB. Considering how LFS only needs 1.3 GB to build, your method would basically double the required partition space and

relocation of the sources

2005-06-08 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Wed, 2005-06-08 at 00:29, Randy McMurchy wrote: Archaic wrote these words on 06/07/05 23:55 CST: Okay, carefully reading your original message, with my head clear (full of vodka, albeit), I know see the problem. know see it? Randy! You're ruining our reputation! Must be the vodka ;)

Re: relocation of the sources

2005-06-08 Thread Matthew Burgess
Archaic wrote: I suggest: The reason for this is that the programs in /tools are no longer needed. Since they are no longer needed you can delete the /tools directory if so desired or tar it up and keep it to build another final system. Look good to me. I suggest: Removing /tools will also

relocation of the sources

2005-06-07 Thread Archaic
from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/testing/chapter06/revisedchroot.html # From now on, when reentering the chroot environment after exiting, use the following modified chroot command: chroot $LFS /usr/bin/env -i \ HOME=/root TERM=$TERM PS1='\u:\w\$ ' \

relocation of the sources

2005-06-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
On Tue, 2005-06-07 at 12:56, Archaic wrote: from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/testing/chapter06/revisedchroot.html # From now on, when reentering the chroot environment after exiting, use the following modified chroot command: chroot $LFS /usr/bin/env -i \

Re: relocation of the sources

2005-06-07 Thread M.Canales.es
El Martes, 7 de Junio de 2005 19:56, Archaic escribió: from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/testing/chapter06/revisedchroot.ht ml The redaction changes look fine to me. This brought up a philosophical debate in my mind. If the book mentions moving the sources, but then proceeds to

Re: relocation of the sources

2005-06-07 Thread Archaic
On Tue, Jun 07, 2005 at 01:08:10PM -0500, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: My suggestion is to leave that part completely out of chapter 6 and put it in as an appendix to the book. It is extremely confusing after you do that and then go to chapter 7. Did you read my changes? If so please re-reply

Re: relocation of the sources

2005-06-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
Archaic wrote these words on 06/07/05 23:30 CST: Suggestions? Comments? Feedback is requested, please. Is there any way you can perhaps make a short paragraph of what you are suggesting? I read your original email earlier today, but it was simply too much to think about. I got lost. So, I just