[lfs-support] status report about the nouveau driver

2012-02-06 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello everyone, I still haven't done chapter 6 of the book but in preparation, I tried to test a git kernel (v3.3.0-rc2) along with the git sources of the nouveau driver for my nvidia card according to the instructions there: http://nouveau.freedesktop.org/wiki/InstallDRM (section 1.2 in p

Re: [lfs-support] Greetings and first two questions

2012-01-30 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Secondly, there was no 'gcc-4.x.x' directory > created from the three un-tar operations in my > case (from the V.7.0 LFS commands.) there are 4 untar operation, gcc-4.6.1, mpfr, gmp and mpc. you have to untar gcc-4.6.1 first with: tar xjvf gcc-4.6.1.tar.bz2 the book assume that you unpacked g

Re: [lfs-support] Greetings and first two questions

2012-01-30 Thread Alain Toussaint
Le lundi 30 janvier 2012 à 22:47 -0500, rafe_b a écrit : > Hi Bruce, I'm trying desperately to understand. > I did read Sec. 5.3 carefully -- I printed it out and > read it prior to doing any builds -- but the subsequent > build steps don't seem to line up. The tree that > I have is: > > /mnt/lfs

[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] 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

[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

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 in Cygwin.......

2012-01-21 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Wish me luck or insanity! sound like me who will be trying out llvm/clang to compile LFS. Turn out that I recently discovered I need a multilib system in order to run virtualbox, sigh Alain (also insane). -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfr

[lfs-support] my latest project

2012-01-10 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello Everyone, Tonight, after having maxed the ram out of my computer (4GB ddr-400, I received my ram from amazon this morning), I set out to install Gentoo in order to build LFS in 64 bit with the clang/LLVM 3.0 compiler system. I will try out Jason's scripts and will likely do 2

Re: [lfs-support] LFS 7.0 - No Devices in /dev on boot up - Kernel then shuts off PC

2012-01-10 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Thank You Andy. I've been reading and trying things all night... Mostly > because I thought I WENT CRAZY selecting options in the kernel... I > though there was no way I missed a simple network driver... > > But I did - I missed a WHOLE category PAGE of them! LOL - So I'm > waiting > for a new k

Re: [lfs-support] help LFS 6.0 Ch 5.7.1 glibc-2.14.1 configure: error: gcc must provide the header

2011-12-15 Thread Alain Toussaint
> Guess I overlooked "The LiveCD cannot be used to build LFS 7.0 or > later." > So what liveCD should I use then? There's the gentoo live dvd available at the bottom of this page: http://www.gentoo.org/main/en/where.xml it has current up-to-date tools to build LFS. Alain -- http://linuxfromsc

RE: built LFS7 wont boot from usb harddrive

2011-11-13 Thread Alain Toussaint
> hd0,msdos1(LFS-7.0),2(swap),3(home). ^^ Could it be that the partition is FAT32 instead of ext(2,3,4)? Alain -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

RE: Just starting 7.0

2011-11-09 Thread Alain Toussaint
> fs:~/gcc-build$ patch -Np1 -i ../gcc-4.6.2-startfiles_fix-1.patch ^^ Isn't gcc-build the build dir and the sources are in ~/gcc-4.6.1 and also, from your other email, ensure that you have the wget list from the release version of the book, not the development one. Alain -- http

RE: Building LFS using jhlfs

2011-09-29 Thread Alain Toussaint
> It should be really simple, and it's stunning that this doesn't exist. And > So what exactly was the answer, because there isn't one in the reply. Do you have a reading comprehension problem? You asked for a step by step guide, LFS is one. You asked for a script giving reproducible result. T

RE: livedvd

2011-07-30 Thread Alain Toussaint
Which livedvd? Gentoo? Alain -Message d'origine- De : lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org [mailto:lfs-support-boun...@linuxfromscratch.org] De la part de Bill Cunningham Envoyé : 30 juillet 2011 18:50 À : lfs-support@linuxfromscratch.org Objet : livedvd This is just too much tro

RE: glibc error again

2011-07-27 Thread Alain Toussaint
<<< On my host system? Oh no. The kernel that comes with RH9. 2.4.20-6. A redhat version of a 2.4 kernel. I would just install the latest gentoo but it's about as difficult if not more so than lfs. I have the minimal ISO and have to go online and download a couple of files and use nano.

RE: glibc

2011-07-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
< Bill, Do you have a dvd burner in that machine? How about trying a recent livedvd to build LFS instead of using RH9 which is quite old? In my case, I will use the gentoo livedvd and I verified that it contain recent version of all the utilities needed to compile LFS (it does) and is

RE: glibc

2011-07-26 Thread Alain Toussaint
Bill, Do you have a dvd burner in that machine? How about trying a recent livedvd to build LFS instead of using RH9 which is quite old? In my case, I will use the gentoo livedvd and I verified that it contain recent version of all the utilities needed to compile LFS (it does) and is availa

RE: CFLAGS

2011-07-24 Thread Alain Toussaint
< > Maybe. But for a first build, we recommend not setting CFLAGS at all > unless specified in the book. Use the developer's defaults. They > understand the software better than you (or we) do. Optimization rarely > makes a discernible difference. I agree. The only difference I've ever

CFLAGS

2011-07-24 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello everyone, I am currently downloading a gentoo amd64 livedvd for my system as well as taking notes regarding how I'll build my installation of LFS and I am not sure about the CFLAGS I will use to build it. Here's the flags I've chosen after reviewing the http://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/g

RE: Boot hangs

2011-07-22 Thread Alain Toussaint
well, to bypass the bootscripts you could use root=/bin/bash, which gives you a bash prompt. it'll tell you if it got that far or not.>>> isn't it init=/bin/bash? I had to do it so many time to fix /etc/fstab under gentoo 32 bit (which uses /dev/hd* for pata while my custom kernel use /d

Gentoo live-cd to install LFS

2011-07-18 Thread Alain Toussaint
Hello Everyone, I looked at the archive up to last year (july 2010) to find out if a gentoo live cd as well as a gentoo stage 3 tarball could be used to install LFS but I haven't found anything yet, so, is there someone here who used these combination of package to install LFS? Thanks Alai