Registering as user

2006-01-25 Thread M Sandell
Hi Been receiving the list for about a week now - it looks like there are some very knowledgeable folks out there! I'm really at BLFS stage (that first LFS boot was a good feeling!) and that mailist makes for weightier reading(!) however I do have 2 LFS questions. Firstly - I was going to

Re: /mnt/lfs entry in /etc/fstab?

2006-01-26 Thread M Sandell
On Thu, 26 Jan 2006, Niki Kovacs wrote: Le Jeudi 26 Janvier 2006 11:41, Matt Darcy a écrit : Warning - Slackware <10 has problems acting as a build host. For your first build you may want to consider a better host distro Humm. I spent the best part of the morning installing a comfortable buil

Re: lfs-support Digest, Vol 891, Issue 1

2006-02-07 Thread M Sandell
On Tue, 7 Feb 2006, boovarahan boovarahan wrote: For that we still need a host system and our hard built LFS is not usable for this purpose. But what about getting rid of the host system altogether ? Obviously it depends on personal circumstances. Since my first LFS boot I have been p

Re: Kernel-panic

2006-02-15 Thread M Sandell
On Wed, 15 Feb 2006, Filip Bartmann wrote: When I try booting my newly built LFS system. I have error: Kernel panic - not syncing: VFS: Unable to mount root fs on unknown block(3,6) I have LFS installed on /dev/hda6 on extended partition, and this I have in grub.conf,and in fstab too. In kernel

Re: 6.8.2 Mounting tmpfs and Populating /dev

2006-02-17 Thread M Sandell
On Fri, 17 Feb 2006, Hein van Dam wrote: P.S. I am expecting comments on u should have been able to find an answer in ..., but do I have to look through all the archives? or is there a simple way to search? Using Google's advanced search, with http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-supp

Re: LiveCD 6.2 install trouble

2006-12-19 Thread M Sandell
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, arnuld wrote: > -su "u:w$": command not found > > [ i checked the file ".bash_profile" to make sure that it contains this > line: > > "exec env -i HOME=$HOME TERM=$TERM PS1=`\u:\w\$ ` bin/bash" > > > i know, PS1 here has "ticks" not "inverted commas" ] This is the proble

Re: LiveCD 6.2 install trouble

2006-12-19 Thread M Sandell
On Tue, 19 Dec 2006, arnuld wrote: > hai all, > > this is my very 1st post & also my 1st try at LFS. I also meant to say "Hi" and "Welcome"! Mike. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information

Glibc make check errors

2007-06-19 Thread M Sandell
Hi I'm building LFS 6.2 on an AMD-K6 (500MHz, 56MB ram) using the LiveCD as host. Just wanted to ask the group's opinion on some make check errors from Section 6.9, Glibc. (Haven't found anything useful in archives/google.) Given the old hardware, the math failures (float, ifloat, ildoubl, l

Re: Glibc make check errors

2007-06-19 Thread M Sandell
On Tue, 19 Jun 2007, Dan Nicholson wrote: Thanks Dan. > One thing you can do is look at the output files from the tests to see > if there's anything that really stands out. For instance, there should > be a nptl/mutex5.out file that has the log from the test. I did have a quick check through t