Re: [lfs-support] virtualisation

2012-01-29 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 22:46 -0500, Alain Toussaint wrote: > For the moment, I'm looking at qemu but there's no > instructions on the packages needed to run it. It's been a while since I installed qemu, but from memory, it didn't have many - nothing that wouldn't already be present on a typical des

Re: [lfs-support] looking for a "build buddy"

2012-01-29 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 10:00 -0800, Robert A. Lerche wrote: > Hi. I have previously built LFS and used the LFS Live CD project to > create a custom system (back in the 6.3 / 6.4 days). > > I am now engaged in a project for a client using Android on a custom > embedded system. As you may know, And

Re: [lfs-support] compilation error in GCC pass 1 package

2012-01-29 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2012-01-29 at 14:44 +0530, mohit jain wrote: > Sir I have attached the text file of the problem faced. Please find it > and provide a remedy. > I am using LFS-BOOK-6.7.pdf > With UBUNTU 10.04 LTS as the host > Facing problem in compiling GCC-4.5.1 - Pass 1 package > and the error faced is

[lfs-support] chapter 5 done

2012-01-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
Good night, I did chapter 5 (not scripted); it went smoothly without failures. testsuites takes a while. chapter 6 will take longer but will happen during the week (starting from tuesday). Alain -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.

[lfs-support] virtualisation

2012-01-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello everyone, My current system run windows xp 32 bit in virtualisation with virtualbox. unfortunately, my processor (amd athlon x2 socket 939) doesn't include any extension to accelerate virtualisation and thus, I can't run linux-kvm but I'd like to know if there are virtualisation softw

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Qrux
On Jan 29, 2012, at 7:04 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Qrux wrote: > >> If you're not testing kernel operations that handle bare-metal (e.g., >> physical hardware drivers), you can do FS-related testing (or >> anything higher-level than the FS) even more easily (from a >> disk-space perspective) with

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Qrux wrote: > If you're not testing kernel operations that handle bare-metal (e.g., > physical hardware drivers), you can do FS-related testing (or > anything higher-level than the FS) even more easily (from a > disk-space perspective) with VMs. Wait for it. Hopefully later tonight in BLFS. >

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Qrux
On Jan 29, 2012, at 5:41 PM, Baho Utot wrote: > On Sunday 29 January 2012 08:08:58 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: >> Baho Utot wrote: >>> For me it is ever try to manage 16 regular partitions? >> >> How about two regular partitions: / and /boot, and lvm for everything else. >> >> And yes, I do manage 16

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: > What I do is to create a new lvm partition for the system under test. . . > > Then bend break and mutilate as necessary. After I am done and it is no > longer needed...just remove it from the grub menu and lvm and I am done. > every thing is clean. What if from your list abo

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Baho Utot
On Sunday 29 January 2012 08:08:58 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > For me it is ever try to manage 16 regular partitions? > > How about two regular partitions: / and /boot, and lvm for everything else. > > And yes, I do manage 16 regular partitions: > > $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda > > D

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: > For me it is ever try to manage 16 regular partitions? How about two regular partitions: / and /boot, and lvm for everything else. And yes, I do manage 16 regular partitions: $ sudo fdisk -l /dev/sda Disk /dev/sda: 320.1 GB, 320072933376 bytes 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 38

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Baho Utot
On Sunday 29 January 2012 07:05:17 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Baho Utot wrote: > > Am I correct in believeing that the root filesystem is mounted from > > the /etc/rc./init.d/mountfs script? > > No. It must be mounted in the initramfs or the kernel itself, usually > readonly. That is working in th

Re: [lfs-support] any pitfall when mounting /mnt/lfs partition relatime

2012-01-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
> > /dev/sda3 /mnt/lfsext4default 0 1 > > /dev/sda1 /mnt/lfs/boot ext3default 0 1 > > /dev/sda4 /mnt/lfs/home ext4noatime 0 1 > > > > but the partitions didn't mount with these option > > > > EXT4-fs (sda3): Unrecognize

Re: [lfs-support] any pitfall when mounting /mnt/lfs partition relatime

2012-01-29 Thread Firerat
On 29 January 2012 23:39, Alain Toussaint wrote: > Hello everyone, >        I just started building up LFS-SVN (my distro is very recent) and I've > set up /etc/fstab with default options such like this: > > /dev/sda3       /mnt/lfs        ext4            default         0 1 > /dev/sda1       /mnt

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Baho Utot wrote: > Am I correct in believeing that the root filesystem is mounted from > the /etc/rc./init.d/mountfs script? No. It must be mounted in the initramfs or the kernel itself, usually readonly. > If so is it permissable to remove the part that mounts the root filesystem? > > Does

Re: [lfs-support] any pitfall when mounting /mnt/lfs partition relatime

2012-01-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 18:39:29 -0500 Alain Toussaint wrote: > Hello everyone, > I just started building up LFS-SVN (my distro is very recent) and I've > set up /etc/fstab with default options such like this: > > /dev/sda3 /mnt/lfsext4default 0 1 > /dev/sda1

Re: [lfs-support] looking for a "build buddy"

2012-01-29 Thread Firerat
On 29 January 2012 18:00, Robert A. Lerche wrote: > Hi.  I have previously built LFS and used the LFS Live CD project to > create a custom system (back in the 6.3 / 6.4 days). > > I am now engaged in a project for a client using Android on a custom > embedded system.  As you may know, Android uses

[lfs-support] any pitfall when mounting /mnt/lfs partition relatime

2012-01-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello everyone, I just started building up LFS-SVN (my distro is very recent) and I've set up /etc/fstab with default options such like this: /dev/sda3 /mnt/lfsext4default 0 1 /dev/sda1 /mnt/lfs/boot ext3default 0 1 /dev/sda4

[lfs-support] LFS-7.0 with LVM

2012-01-29 Thread Baho Utot
I am using the lvm hint by Bryan Kadzban I think I am almost there to put LFS-7.0 on lvm, Have the following issues If someone here can point me in the correct direction and correction me. The lfs-7.0 is stock out of the book, with the following added packages lvm2.2.02.88 lfs-initramfs-1.0.

Re: [lfs-support] Trouble changing dynamic linker in step 6.9

2012-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dave H wrote: > hi yes the mailer is doing that. i am cutting and pasting it from HTML. > > i was wondering if it was something from my cut and pasting too, but i > tried typing in those parts by hand and had the same problem. > > the page that i'm referring is at > http://www.linuxfromscratch.o

Re: [lfs-support] Trouble changing dynamic linker in step 6.9

2012-01-29 Thread Dave H
hi yes the mailer is doing that. i am cutting and pasting it from HTML. i was wondering if it was something from my cut and pasting too, but i tried typing in those parts by hand and had the same problem. the page that i'm referring is at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/chapter06

Re: [lfs-support] looking for a "build buddy"

2012-01-29 Thread Matijn Woudt
On Sun, Jan 29, 2012 at 8:10 PM, Andrew Benton wrote: > On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:00:20 -0800 > "Robert A. Lerche" wrote: > >> Hi.  I have previously built LFS and used the LFS Live CD project to >> create a custom system (back in the 6.3 / 6.4 days). >> >> I am now engaged in a project for a client

Re: [lfs-support] looking for a "build buddy"

2012-01-29 Thread Andrew Benton
On Sun, 29 Jan 2012 10:00:20 -0800 "Robert A. Lerche" wrote: > Hi. I have previously built LFS and used the LFS Live CD project to > create a custom system (back in the 6.3 / 6.4 days). > > I am now engaged in a project for a client using Android on a custom > embedded system. As you may know,

[lfs-support] looking for a "build buddy"

2012-01-29 Thread Robert A. Lerche
Hi. I have previously built LFS and used the LFS Live CD project to create a custom system (back in the 6.3 / 6.4 days). I am now engaged in a project for a client using Android on a custom embedded system. As you may know, Android uses the Linux kernel as a base. Has anyone out there built And

Re: [lfs-support] Trouble changing dynamic linker in step 6.9

2012-01-29 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Dave H wrote: > Hi guys running into another snag and was hoping someone could shed > some light on the problem. > > At the stage to change the dynamic linker but for some reason, > cut/pasting didn't seem to work: > === > root:/s

Re: [lfs-support] compilation error in GCC pass 1 package

2012-01-29 Thread Eleanore Boyd
On 1/29/2012 3:14 AM, mohit jain wrote: Sir I have attached the text file of the problem faced. Please find it and provide a remedy. I am using LFS-BOOK-6.7.pdf With UBUNTU 10.04 LTS as the host Facing problem in compiling GCC-4.5.1 - Pass 1 package and the error faced is attached as a text fil

[lfs-support] Trouble changing dynamic linker in step 6.9

2012-01-29 Thread Dave H
Hi guys running into another snag and was hoping someone could shed some light on the problem. At the stage to change the dynamic linker but for some reason, cut/pasting didn't seem to work: === root:/sources/glibc-2.14.1# DL=$(re

Re: [lfs-support] LFS-7.0 /dev/pts

2012-01-29 Thread Baho Utot
On Saturday 28 January 2012 07:22:24 pm Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Andrew Benton wrote: > > On Sat, 28 Jan 2012 17:06:44 -0600 > > > > Bruce Dubbs wrote: > >> There are three places /dev/pts is mentioned in the book: > >> > >> 6.2. Preparing Virtual Kernel File Systems > >> 8.2. Creating the /etc/fsta

Re: [lfs-support] compilation error in GCC pass 1 package

2012-01-29 Thread spiky
On 29/01/12 09:14, mohit jain wrote: Sir I have attached the text file of the problem faced. Please find it and provide a remedy. I am using LFS-BOOK-6.7.pdf With UBUNTU 10.04 LTS as the host Facing problem in compiling GCC-4.5.1 - Pass 1 package and the error faced is attached as a text file w

[lfs-support] compilation error in GCC pass 1 package

2012-01-29 Thread mohit jain
Sir I have attached the text file of the problem faced. Please find it and provide  a remedy. I am using LFS-BOOK-6.7.pdf With UBUNTU 10.04 LTS as the host Facing problem in compiling GCC-4.5.1 - Pass 1 package and the error faced is attached as a text file which is copied from the terminal Rega