Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-21 Thread Jan-Christoph Bornschlegel
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA256 Am 03.06.2013 01:32, schrieb scott maxwell: Sorry about the top posting. I have never posted to an email forum like this before and had no idea what you were writing about. My smart wife came to the rescue. Thank you all for your help. A

[lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
I keep getting stuck in LFS 7.3. Never gotten past Binutils 2nd pass. Now I have all the tar files in the sources folder on the new LFS partition but cant get to it from mnt/lfs/sources. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Current host os is Mint 14. Thanks. --

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread spiky
On 02/06/13 21:15, scott maxwell wrote: I keep getting stuck in LFS 7.3. Never gotten past Binutils 2nd pass. Now I have all the tar files in the sources folder on the new LFS partition but cant get to it from mnt/lfs/sources. Any help would be greatly appreciated. Current host os is Mint 14.

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
scott maxwell wrote: I keep getting stuck in LFS 7.3. Never gotten past Binutils 2nd pass. Now I have all the tar files in the sources folder on the new LFS partition but cant get to it from mnt/lfs/sources. You don't give very much info. There should be a leading / in /mnt/lfs/sources. Is

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
scott@scott-K52F ~ $ su - lfs Password: lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ echo $LFS /mnt/lfs lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ ls -l /sources ls: cannot access /sources: No such file or directory lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 4:24 PM, spiky martynvid...@aol.com wrote: On 02/06/13 21:15, scott maxwell wrote:

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ bash version-check.sh bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release /bin/sh - /bin/bash Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.22.90.20120924 bison (GNU Bison) 2.5 /usr/bin/yacc - /usr/bin/bison.yacc bzip2, Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010. Coreutils: 8.13 diff (GNU diffutils) 3.2 find (GNU

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
scott maxwell wrote: lfs@scott-K52F ~ $ bash version-check.sh bash, version 4.2.37(1)-release /bin/sh - /bin/bash Binutils: (GNU Binutils for Ubuntu) 2.22.90.20120924 bison (GNU Bison) 2.5 /usr/bin/yacc - /usr/bin/bison.yacc bzip2, Version 1.0.6, 6-Sept-2010. Coreutils: 8.13 diff (GNU

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
So where did you put the sources? The book says: mkdir -v $LFS/sources chmod -v a+wt $LFS/sources I put the sources where the book said to. What are you using for $LFS? That is, echo $LFSlfs@scott-K52F ~ $ echo $LFS /mnt/lfs I thought I was putting it on sda6 (also have windows 7 and Linux

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
Also, what is the output of: $ mount $ fdisk -l This is from normal user acct. and not the lfs acct. scott@scott-K52F ~ $ mount /dev/sda7 on / type ext4 (rw,errors=remount-ro) proc on /proc type proc (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) sysfs on /sys type sysfs (rw,noexec,nosuid,nodev) none on

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? scott maxwell wrote: Also, what is the output of: $ mount $ fdisk -l This is from normal user acct. and not the lfs

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
$ sudo mount -v -t ext4 /dev/xxx $LFS where does this command go? On Sun, Jun 2, 2013 at 5:42 PM, Bruce Dubbs bruce.du...@gmail.com wrote: A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
$ sudo mount -v -t ext4 /dev/xxx $LFS where does this command go? I found the location in the book sect. 2.4 but I'm using ext3 instead of ext4. Is that a problem. Do I have to start over from scratch? If so, how do I delete all the previous steps w/o formatting my linux mint partition? The guys

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread Bruce Dubbs
scott maxwell wrote: The guys at the local linux user group said not to do this LFS project. I understand why they said that. You don't seem to be able to follow instructions. I asked you twice to not top post and you continue. Perhaps someone else will answer your questions, but it will

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 06:13:10PM -0400, scott maxwell wrote: $ sudo mount -v -t ext4 /dev/xxx $LFS where does this command go? I found the location in the book sect. 2.4 but I'm using ext3 instead of ext4. Is that a problem. Do I have to start over from scratch? If so, how do I delete all

Re: [lfs-support] Can't access my sources directory to install build files

2013-06-02 Thread scott maxwell
On Jun 2, 2013 6:36 PM, Ken Moffat zarniwh...@ntlworld.com wrote: On Sun, Jun 02, 2013 at 06:13:10PM -0400, scott maxwell wrote: $ sudo mount -v -t ext4 /dev/xxx $LFS where does this command go? I found the location in the book sect. 2.4 but I'm using ext3 instead of ext4. Is that a