Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-07-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:59 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > Apparently, it's the stated non-goal to support switching back > by the authors (or at least owners) of the driver. > So, unless he's willing to get the source for the driver, and > rewrite portions of it himself, there's not going to be a wa

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 22:39 -0400, Neal Murphy wrote: > Sometimes, deleting everything and starting anew is all you *can* do. More than that, it's often easier too. Less effort to start again paying closer attention to the instructions, than to spend time trying to work out how to fix the results

Re: Compilation problem for binutils

2010-07-02 Thread $reeHari
*This is the note on http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd : "Note:* The LiveCD is no longer being maintained. However, it still works well for many purposes, including as a vehicle to build LFS. The packages and the rendered LFS book on the CD are quite out of date. To use the CD to build LFS, do

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On 2 July 2010 01:57, Face wrote: > Ken, > Well, I am really sorry for all the trouble i caused. I start over b/c > i could not fix the earlier Problem, really sorry. > We're here to build systems. A large part of this is learning from our mistakes [ aside: some people claim to build LFS without

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread littlebat
On Fri, 2 Jul 2010 12:53:19 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > On 2 July 2010 01:57, Face wrote: > > Ken, > > Well, I am really sorry for all the trouble i caused. I start over > > b/c i could not fix the earlier Problem, really sorry. > > > We're here to build systems. A large part of this is learning

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday 02 July 2010 07:53:19 Ken Moffat wrote: > ... but people can make the same error each time. And that's really OK: it's a mere reflection of their computer skills and we can help them with that. But expecting different results every time is a sure sign of insanity, or so I'm told. :)

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-07-02 Thread Mike McCarty
Simon Geard wrote: > On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:59 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: >> Apparently, it's the stated non-goal to support switching back >> by the authors (or at least owners) of the driver. >> So, unless he's willing to get the source for the driver, and >> rewrite portions of it himself, the

Re: Compilation problem for binutils

2010-07-02 Thread Mike McCarty
$reeHari wrote: > *This is the note on http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd : > "Note:* The LiveCD is no longer being maintained. However, it still works > well for many purposes, including as a vehicle to build LFS. The packages > and the rendered LFS book on the CD are quite out of date. To use

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Mike McCarty
Neal Murphy wrote: > On Friday 02 July 2010 07:53:19 Ken Moffat wrote: > >> ... but people can make the same error each time. > > And that's really OK: it's a mere reflection of their computer skills and we > can help them with that. But expecting different results every time is a sure > sign

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Face
well, thank you all, i will start over and see what will happen. I am using a shell script to do the book if someone could take a look at it, that would be nice . Sincerely Install-Ch5.sh Description: Bourne shell script -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://w

problems with polkit

2010-07-02 Thread Olaf Grüttner
Dear all, I am having problems with polkit-0.94. make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/polkit-0.94/docs' Making all in man make[3]: Entering directory `/sources/polkit-0.94/docs/man' /usr/bin/xsltproc -nonet --stringparam man.base.url.for.relative.links /usr/share/gtk-doc/html/polkit-1/ --xinclud

Installing the Distro

2010-07-02 Thread Maginot Junior
Hi everybody I need to be able to install my distro, any idea on how to do that? I tried making my own installer in C and GTK but have some (many) problems, so I started to think if someone have any better idea, maybe something like the ubuntu installer... thanks! -- Maginot Júnior -- http://

Re: problems with polkit

2010-07-02 Thread Andrew Benton
On 30/06/10 21:50, Olaf Grüttner wrote: > Dear all, > > I am having problems with polkit-0.94. > > make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/polkit-0.94/docs' > Making all in man > make[3]: Entering directory `/sources/polkit-0.94/docs/man' > /usr/bin/xsltproc -nonet --stringparam > man.base.url.for.

Re: problems with polkit

2010-07-02 Thread Nathan Coulson
On Wed, Jun 30, 2010 at 1:50 PM, Olaf Grüttner wrote: > Dear all, > > I am having problems with polkit-0.94. > > make[2]: Entering directory `/sources/polkit-0.94/docs' > Making all in man > make[3]: Entering directory `/sources/polkit-0.94/docs/man' > /usr/bin/xsltproc -nonet --stringparam > man.

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-07-02 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday 02 July 2010 12:14:51 Mike McCarty wrote: > Simon Geard wrote: > > On Thu, 2010-07-01 at 17:59 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > >> Apparently, it's the stated non-goal to support switching back > >> by the authors (or at least owners) of the driver. > >> So, unless he's willing to get the sou

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Neal Murphy
On Friday 02 July 2010 15:11:31 Face wrote: > well, thank you all, i will start over and see what will happen. > I am using a shell script to do the book if someone could take a look > at it, that would be nice . > > > Sincerely Ah, you don't seem to have error detection in your script. After man

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Baho Utot
Neal Murphy wrote: > On Friday 02 July 2010 15:11:31 Face wrote: > >> well, thank you all, i will start over and see what will happen. >> I am using a shell script to do the book if someone could take a look >> at it, that would be nice . >> >> >> Sincerely >> > > Ah, you don't seem to have

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Face
Neal, thanks alot for going through the script I appreciated. well, I do have error detection i disable it on the script i attached. its like this Chapter5(){ GZ="tar -zxf" BZ="tar xjvf" exec 3>&1 #Start- This to handel stderr Chapter5_4 2>&1 1>&3 | sh

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Neal Murphy wrote: > On Friday 02 July 2010 15:11:31 Face wrote: >> well, thank you all, i will start over and see what will happen. >> I am using a shell script to do the book if someone could take a look >> at it, that would be nice . -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support F

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Face wrote: > well, thank you all, i will start over and see what will happen. > I am using a shell script to do the book if someone could take a look > at it, that would be nice . Ignore the previous post I accidentally sent. For any complex task like LFS, you should be able to successfully do t

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Face
it has been over 2 months since my first try i think. going through the book manually over and over, I had many mistypes which force me to start over. Therefore, I put them in a script so i can avoid mistypes. Yes i do agree the script is way too long , however, alot of the lines is about tell me

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Face wrote: > it has been over 2 months since my first try i think. going through > the book manually over and over, I had many mistypes which force me to > start over. Therefore, I put them in a script so i can avoid mistypes. > Yes i do agree the script is way too long , however, alot of the lin

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Face
:) Hope you did not took my respond the wrong way, i do appreciated every advice. thx On Sat, Jul 3, 2010 at 4:28 AM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Face wrote: >> it has been over  2 months since my first try i think. going through >> the book manually over and over, I had many mistypes which force me to

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 02:19 +0300, Face wrote: > Neal, > > thanks alot for going through the script I appreciated. > > well, I do have error detection i disable it on the script i attached. > its like this That's not error detection - that's just logging stderr. The biggest problem with scripte

Re: LFS (Version SVN-20100529) - 5.9. Binutils-2.20.1 - Pass 2

2010-07-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2010-07-03 at 03:40 +0300, Face wrote: > it has been over 2 months since my first try i think. going through > the book manually over and over, I had many mistypes which force me to > start over. Therefore, I put them in a script so i can avoid mistypes. To start with, copy-paste from the

Re: Problem installing the "nouveau" driver

2010-07-02 Thread Simon Geard
On Fri, 2010-07-02 at 11:14 -0500, Mike McCarty wrote: > OTOH, my version (with X and GNOME) seems to switch to 80x25 very > easily when I press CTRL-ALT-F1 through CTRL-ALT-F6, so the kernel > must support _something_ along those lines. You're using the Nouveau driver? The X-only drivers like NVI

LFS 6.6 Chapter 2, Preparing a New Partition

2010-07-02 Thread PRAKHAR gaur
Dear All, I already have a 50 GB partition, which I had created while, Installing the host Operating System(Debian 5.0.5). Do I need to partition it again, its a ext3 fs. Or I can directly mount it in /mnt/lfs?, as its already mounted in /media. Thanking you, Prakhar Gaur