Re: At 6.61, backup before Stripping Again & stripping itself

2005-11-22 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, 23 Nov 2005, Micheal E Cooper wrote: So what is the best way to make this backup? (1) As root user of the host system, do 'tar -cjf 051123_lfs_bkp.tar.bz2 $LFS'. (2) As root of the chroot'd system, do 'tar -cjf 051123_lfs_bkp.tar.bz2 /'. (3) other utilities or methods, or some tar optio

Re: Hi! A few questions from a first timer

2005-11-22 Thread Micheal E Cooper
> Hi! > I have finally decided to jump off the cliff and build lfs (my Knees > have been shaking for months leading up to this) using > lfs-packages-6.1.1.tar, and the LFS-BOOK-6.1.pdf. I decided to download >From one first-timer to another, I would strongly recommend that you go with the latest

Re: Hi! A few questions from a first timer

2005-11-22 Thread Randy McMurchy
ChasJTurner wrote these words on 11/22/05 18:52 CST: > After re-reading all of the posts, I have decided to go with 6.1.1. Good choice! -- Randy rmlscsi: [GNU ld version 2.15.94.0.2 20041220] [gcc (GCC) 3.4.3] [GNU C Library stable release version 2.3.4] [Linux 2.6.10 i686] 18:52:00 up 59 days

Re: Hi! A few questions from a first timer

2005-11-22 Thread ChasJTurner
ChasJTurner wrote: Gerard Beekmans wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: 6.1.1 almost stable book at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/testing/. You can also download the Testing book. The link wasn't available on the Download page yesterday but that was corrected. http://www.linuxfromscratch

At 6.61, backup before Stripping Again & stripping itself

2005-11-22 Thread Micheal E Cooper
In 6.61, the good book says, "However, it is easy to make a typo and render the new system unusable, so before running the strip command, it is a good idea to make a backup of the current situation." So what is the best way to make this backup? (1) As root user of the host system, do 'tar -cjf 0

Unzip

2005-11-22 Thread Peter Keller
Hi all, Just my experiences with compiling unzip-5.52 (blfs-cvsl-2005-11-20 on LFS-SVN-20051116, followed to the letter) 1) patch -Np1 -i ../unzip-5.52-fix_Makefile-1.patch FAILED at 878 (?) on inspecting the Makefile + ln -sf libunzip.so.0.4 libunzip.so already seemed to be applied. So

Re: Hi! A few questions from a first timer

2005-11-22 Thread Ken Moffat
On Tue, 22 Nov 2005, ChasJTurner wrote: Thanks for all the quick replies. Sorry about missing the obvious elephant in the living room. I think I better stick to a tested build, rather than a testing one as this is my first try at this, so I will grab the 6.1 tarball and start again. Hopefully

Re: Hi! A few questions from a first timer

2005-11-22 Thread ChasJTurner
Gerard Beekmans wrote: Dan Nicholson wrote: 6.1.1 almost stable book at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/testing/. You can also download the Testing book. The link wasn't available on the Download page yesterday but that was corrected. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/t

Re: Hi! A few questions from a first timer

2005-11-22 Thread Gerard Beekmans
Dan Nicholson wrote: 6.1.1 almost stable book at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/testing/. You can also download the Testing book. The link wasn't available on the Download page yesterday but that was corrected. http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/downloads/testing/ That should do

Re: [OT] Sending 'clean' mail

2005-11-22 Thread Declan Moriarty
Recently, Somebody Somewhere wrote these words > On Tue, Nov 22, 2005 at 10:33:53AM +, Declan Moriarty wrote: > > > > and of course it bombed, in the following way. Fetchmail threw an > > smtp error when the message was rejected (smtp protocol error), > > stopped > > Fetchmail is for pop3, im

Re: Hi! A few questions from a first timer

2005-11-22 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 11/21/05, Justin R. Knierim <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > That is your problem right there. There is a 6.1 tarball for the 6.1 > book. The soon-to-be-released testing branch will be 6.1.1, and changes > have been made to it so that those files aren't needed. Please download > the 6.1 tarball f