Re: Connecting to the Internet

2008-06-10 Thread J. Greenlees
Michael wrote: Today, I finished the LFS book, and booted into my first linux install that I compiled myself! Since I want to go deeper, and make it a full pledged desktop environment, I headed over to the BLFS book. I know it sounds like I'm on the wrong mailing list, but stick with me.

Re: stubs-32.h missing

2008-04-07 Thread J. Greenlees
Michael Kearns wrote: Hi, Having decided to have another go at LFS (been through the process a couple of times before, a few years back), I grabbed the 6.3 (amd64) LiveCD, and followed the latest development book. It's usually recommended to use CLFS for building 64 bit right now.

Re: stubs-32.h missing

2008-04-07 Thread J. Greenlees
Michael Kearns wrote: J. Greenlees wrote: Michael Kearns wrote: Hi, Having decided to have another go at LFS (been through the process a couple of times before, a few years back), I grabbed the 6.3 (amd64) LiveCD, and followed the latest development book

Re: chapter 5, bash 3.2 yacc version?

2008-03-30 Thread J. Greenlees
Dan Nicholson wrote: On Sat, Mar 29, 2008 at 12:44 AM, J. Greenlees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: errors with yacc, command not found error 127 so the question: Bison or BYacc? which one to install and link to yacc? You want bison. It installs a yacc binary. I figured

Re: LFS 6.3 CH 5.14 Bash-3.2

2008-03-30 Thread J. Greenlees
nick wrote: After finally figuring out I needed to install BISON because it wasn't installed with PC Linux OS I get an error with /make install/ in CH 5.14 Bash-3.2. The following is the output: ~snip~ make: [install] Error 2 (ignored) The last word on that line is the

chapter 5, bash 3.2 yacc version?

2008-03-29 Thread J. Greenlees
I decided to check PCLinuxOS as a build environment, which has been fine until installing bash in chapter 5. [ even running the test on tcl generated zero errors ] errors with yacc, command not found error 127 so the question: Bison or BYacc? which one to install and link to yacc? or, is it not

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

Re: LiveCD or No LiveCD?

2008-02-25 Thread J. Greenlees
Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: Besides, the LFS LiveCD has no real technical benefits as a host, except that it is preconfigured and already contains the packages - but why not download them separately in a town with a broadband connection, put onto a flash drive, and use with your

18 hours and counting ... gcc pass 1

2007-08-31 Thread J. Greenlees
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Yup, 18 hours and counting for 'make bootstrap' of gcc 4.1.2 host is lfs livecd r2032 target: Dell inspiron 3000, a pentium-mmx @266 MHz (i586-linux-gnu) ram 128 MB ( system reports 144 MB from onboard cache ram for bios and video ) swap space is

Re: 18 hours and counting ... gcc pass 1

2007-08-31 Thread J. Greenlees
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 Baho Utot wrote: On Friday 31 August 2007 2:59 am, J. Greenlees wrote: Yup, 18 hours and counting for 'make bootstrap' of gcc 4.1.2 host is lfs livecd r2032 target: Dell inspiron 3000, a pentium-mmx @266 MHz (i586-linux-gnu) ram 128 MB ( system

Re: 18 hours and counting ... gcc pass 1

2007-08-31 Thread J. Greenlees
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 J. Greenlees wrote: Baho Utot wrote: On Friday 31 August 2007 2:59 am, J. Greenlees wrote: Yup, 18 hours and counting for 'make bootstrap' of gcc 4.1.2 host is lfs livecd r2032 target: Dell inspiron 3000, a pentium-mmx @266 MHz (i586-linux-gnu

Re: 18 hours and counting ... gcc pass 1

2007-08-31 Thread J. Greenlees
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 TheOldFellow wrote: On Fri, 31 Aug 2007 01:38:01 -0700 J. Greenlees [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: snip on a major positive note, the lfs livecd is the only current distro to actually run correctly on this ancient beast. knoppix and gnoppix both won't

Re: automated install

2005-05-23 Thread J. Greenlees
Lai Zit Seng wrote: On Sun, 22 May 2005, Ben Cools wrote: I've read a lot about LFS by now and I am very enthusiastic about it. I am willing to try making my own distribution, but I still have one question left: Will I be capable, at the end of the learning process, to make my system auto