Re: Udev and Alpha Branches Merged To Trunk

2006-04-26 Thread John Gay
for your hardware? Maybe even an automated tool to parse the output from lspci and generate a .config file? Just a thought. Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: Thank you

2006-04-05 Thread John Gay
to start again yet! So, overall, I think the book is quite comprehensive, as long as you have a good basic understanding of the Linux build process and using basic tools. Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs

mini-config

2006-02-13 Thread John Gay
they have a booting system to start with? Just a suggestion. Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Sound help? Quake4

2006-02-13 Thread John Gay
, so I guess now's as good a time as any to dig into it. Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: doubt

2006-02-12 Thread John Gay
just looking for things to watch out for, and tips for avoiding the pitfalls. Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: General questions about LFS

2006-02-12 Thread John Gay
needs, be they Server or X based. Once you've been through the books a few times, you should learn enough to start installing things not listed in BLFS. But BLFS does include enough for most full-blown Desktops, including Gnome or KDE. Hope you have fun with LFS/BLFS Cheers, John Gay

LCFS Build complete!

2006-01-31 Thread John Gay
understand they both expect 32-bit libs in /lib and 64-bit libs in /lib64. Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

64-bit build failed binutils chap 5?

2006-01-29 Thread John Gay
-bit types here. So much for just running through the book with a 64-bit host. Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: 64-bit build failed binutils chap 5?

2006-01-29 Thread John Gay
On Sunday 29 January 2006 22:05, Jim Gifford wrote: So much for just running through the book with a 64-bit host. Cheers, John Gay John you need to follow CLFS to get a good build on your x86_64. Damn, I was hoping to avoid cross-compiling by using a 64-bit host. If I need

Re: cp .6.11 glibc.2.3.4

2006-01-21 Thread John Gay
the first error message, it's impossible to tell what caused the failure. Do I have to start all over again from ch 5.1? We can't tell from this. Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe

RE: how to diminish lfs6.1 size?

2005-10-15 Thread John Gay
much you can do without and how small you want it to be. thanks, A little research does go a long way. Once you've an idea of what you want, we can help with the particulars. Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

RE: is LFS LSB compliant?

2005-10-09 Thread John Gay
development synced, and then base the rest of the system on the same tool-chain. But as long as they develop according to their own roadmaps you will always suffer some incampatability issues. Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http

Re: Boot floppy for liveCD...

2005-09-11 Thread John Gay
to a faster box, have a look for the cross-compiling hint, which explains how to use a fast box to build LFS for a slow box. Alot less painful (-; Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See

Re: Exists some script to create a LiveCd of the LFS?

2005-05-22 Thread John Gay
and skills with the rest of us. It's because of people like you that the OpenSource community works as well as it does. Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Re: How close is 6.1?

2005-05-04 Thread John Gay
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How close is 6.1?

2005-05-02 Thread John Gay
-6.0 desktop, but the second box I was hoping could be a 6.1 version of both. Sorry for asking such a silly question, but if holding up on the second build by a few weeks would give me a closer-to-bleeding-edge system, it'd be worth it to me. Cheers, John Gay -- http