Re: vga=... in grub, WAS Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 01:05:41PM -0500, jasin wrote: > Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > > Unfortunately, vga=xxx seems to be incompatible with setting > > FONT=... in /etc/sysconfig/console ! The console spungs back into > > the default VGA mode during the SysV scripts. And if I *don't* > > s

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
support wrote: > Multiple 'windows' don't require X, personally i logon to 2 or 3 virtual > terminals, carry out the lfs build work in terminal 1 and have a copy of > the book open via lynx in terminal 2, then i can simply select with the > mouse to highlight and right click in VT1 to paste. To op

Re: Problem in 6.10 Re-adjusting the Toolchain [LFS 6.3]

2008-02-26 Thread Dan Nicholson
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 8:05 AM, mark jones <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Hello, > > I have completed the chapter 5. But I am facing one problem in chapter > 6.10 every time. After done all the steps before it, then query the following: > > > > $> grep 'SEARCH.*/usr/lib' dummy.log |sed 's|;

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread support
Laurent HOAREAU wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork a écrit : > >> Jeremy Huntwork wrote: >> >> >>> * Does the community still want the LiveCD project? >>> > (Consider that a > >>> couple of the arguments above imply that the LFS >>> > LiveCD by its nature is > >>> degrading

Re: vga=... in grub, WAS Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread jasin
Jeremy Henty wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:28:37AM -0500, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > >> Jeremy Henty wrote: >> >>> Does VGA=... work on anything except lilo? I could never get it >>> to work under grub and every solution I Googled was lilo-specific. >>> >> Works great in grub:

vga=... in grub, WAS Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 10:28:37AM -0500, Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Jeremy Henty wrote: > > > > Does VGA=... work on anything except lilo? I could never get it > > to work under grub and every solution I Googled was lilo-specific. > > Works great in grub: > > title Some Distro > root (hd

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread Laurent HOAREAU
Jeremy Huntwork a écrit : > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > >> * Does the community still want the LiveCD project? (Consider that a >> couple of the arguments above imply that the LFS LiveCD by its nature is >> degrading the quality of LFS) >> >> * If so, is the community prepared to lend help in ke

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > So we see at least two non-empty camps. One wants a strictly minimal CD, and > one > wants packages beyond it. The most "democratic" solution would be to make two > CDs (and that's, in fact, the origin of the talks about package management), > but > we don't have

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread J. Greenlees
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: ~snip~ > > I could let this thread continue for some more time, but I get the > impression that the ratio of votes will continue approximately the same. as with the last time this subject came up :) seems that while majority like the livecd project, getting more support is

Re: Problem in 6.10 Re-adjusting the Toolchain [LFS 6.3]

2008-02-26 Thread mark jones
> Hello, > I have completed the chapter 5. But I am facing one problem in chapter 6.10 > every time. After done all the steps before it, then query the following: > > $> grep 'SEARCH.*/usr/lib' dummy.log |sed 's|; |\n|g' > > I got nothing, then I tried with > > $> grep 'SEARCH.*/lib' dummy.lo

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-26 Thread Scott
On Mon, Feb 25, 2008 at 09:46:45PM +0100, Thomas Trepl wrote: > What I wished to have is a simple, clean BootCD with no > SchnickSchnack (how is that in English? Maybe "extra stuff") on it I think the best English idiom would be "bells and whistles". But thanks for the deutsche (?) idiom! I like

Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Tony Sequeira
On Tue, 2008-02-26 at 15:22 +, Jeremy Henty wrote: > Does VGA=... work on anything except lilo? I could never get it to > work under grub and every solution I Googled was lilo-specific. Indeed it does... title comet - kernel 2.6.24.2 - LFS 6.1 - 16th February 2008 root

Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Henty wrote: > On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:05:28PM +, support wrote: > >> I guess for the livecd it'd be easier to pass it as a kernel >> parameter with VGA=option. > > Does VGA=... work on anything except lilo? I could never get it to > work under grub and every solution I

Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Henty
On Tue, Feb 26, 2008 at 12:05:28PM +, support wrote: > I guess for the livecd it'd be easier to pass it as a kernel > parameter with VGA=option. Does VGA=... work on anything except lilo? I could never get it to work under grub and every solution I Googled was lilo-specific. > If

Re: What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread support
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > >> * Does the community still want the LiveCD project? (Consider that a >> couple of the arguments above imply that the LFS LiveCD by its nature is >> degrading the quality of LFS) >> >> * If so, is the community prepared to lend help in keepin

What next? [Was: Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?]

2008-02-26 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
Jeremy Huntwork wrote: > * Does the community still want the LiveCD project? (Consider that a > couple of the arguments above imply that the LFS LiveCD by its nature is > degrading the quality of LFS) > > * If so, is the community prepared to lend help in keeping it alive? Thank you all for you

Re: LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread support
lanas wrote: > Hi all, > > When booting a stock LFS system using VmWare (eg. that normally runs > Fedora) the resulting text screen is rather small. Is there some > parameter, perhaps a kernel parameter, or a font modification that > could make the text/console screen larger ? > > Thanks. > Y

LFS 'screen' in VmWare

2008-02-26 Thread lanas
Hi all, When booting a stock LFS system using VmWare (eg. that normally runs Fedora) the resulting text screen is rather small. Is there some parameter, perhaps a kernel parameter, or a font modification that could make the text/console screen larger ? Thanks. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/m

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-26 Thread Wit
nick levandoski wrote: > Those were good comments. > ps > > I would be glad to help with the LFS LiveCD project, the problem is im > not an expert but i did learn alot. Ex=has been "spurt"=drip under pressure. ;-) So don't worry, your future "expertise" is ahead of, not behind, you. > --