Re: LFS hangs after "Setting Hostname"

2005-03-05 Thread Jeremy Utley
Roberto Perpuly wrote: Darn thing still wont boot. Permissions on /dev/null are 777 (they were 666). It is a character file. Just to make sure, I deleted it and ran the following command tor recreate it mknod -m 777 $LFS/dev/null c 1 3 I'm running out of ideas, I'm almost contemplating start

Re: LFS hangs after "Setting Hostname"

2005-03-05 Thread Roberto Perpuly
Jeremy Utley wrote: a) Please don't top-post - see the FAQ for details b) it's a very good possibility that this might be causing problems - check /dev/null, make sure it's a device node, not an actual file, and that it has mode 777 perms. -J- I apologize for the top-posting. Darn thing still wont

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread MIke Cruz
TheOldFellow wrote: MIke Cruz wrote: So sounds like i will repartion my harddrive give LFS some room then take my time install LFS learn alot and in the end have a really really nice system. Thanks again Mike, Good luck with it. I hope you have as much enjoyment from LFS as I have. Finally, a bl

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread Ian Molton
MIke Cruz wrote: My question is with the kernel-2.6.8 that LFS is using will my system still work. I mean that I was not able to get my wireless working until I rebuilt my kernel using 2.6.11 Just use 2.6.11. its almost garaunteed to work. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-suppo

Re: LFS hangs after "Setting Hostname"

2005-03-05 Thread Jeremy Utley
Roberto Perpuly wrote: i just recently noticed that I DO get an error executing the cleanfs script. /etc/rc.d/rcsysinit.d/S50cleanfs: line 73: /dev/null: Permission denied Could this be the cause of the hang?? a) Please don't top-post - see the FAQ for details b) it's a very good possibility tha

Re: LFS hangs after "Setting Hostname"

2005-03-05 Thread Roberto Perpuly
i use the lfs-bootscripts-2.2.2, using the line "make install" to install the scripts. i added two lines to the /etc/rc.d/init.d/rc script. one at the beginning which echoes the first parameter passed to the script, and on line at the end that echoes "FINISHED". Booting the system shows me

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread TheOldFellow
MIke Cruz wrote: So sounds like i will repartion my harddrive give LFS some room then take my time install LFS learn alot and in the end have a really really nice system. Thanks again Mike, Good luck with it. I hope you have as much enjoyment from LFS as I have. Finally, a blatant advert for some

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread MIke Cruz
TheOldFellow wrote: MIke Cruz wrote: Hello I have a question before I take the leap to install a LFS system. First I have a HP Pavilion zv5034us Laptop 2.66 P4 with 1GB of RAM Ati IGP integrated video 128MB shared mem Ati

Re: Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread TheOldFellow
MIke Cruz wrote: Hello I have a question before I take the leap to install a LFS system. First I have a HP Pavilion zv5034us Laptop 2.66 P4 with 1GB of RAM Ati IGP integrated video 128MB shared mem Ati IPX150 AC'97 integrat

Getting started?

2005-03-05 Thread MIke Cruz
Hello I have a question before I take the leap to install a LFS system. First I have a HP Pavilion zv5034us Laptop 2.66 P4 with 1GB of RAM Ati IGP integrated video 128MB shared mem Ati IPX150 AC'97 integrated sound