Re: LFS install troubles...

2005-08-07 Thread Julio Meca Hansen
On Sat, 2005-08-06 at 11:33 -0700, Srinath M wrote: > Hi all, > > Everything was going fine till I reached the stage where you install > the first package (binutils) from source. While copying the source from > the liveCD onto the hdd for unpacking, I started getting buffer I/O > errors and the fi

Re: LFS install troubles...

2005-08-06 Thread Srinath M
Hi, I've attached the output from dmesg. Any pointers are welcome :) --- "Justin R. Knierim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Srinath M wrote: > > >No luck :( > > > >Can I post the output of dmesg here? > > > :( Sure, or you can post as an attachment bzipped. > > Justin > -- > http://linuxfrom

Re: LFS install troubles...

2005-08-06 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Srinath M wrote: No luck :( Can I post the output of dmesg here? :( Sure, or you can post as an attachment bzipped. Justin -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

Re: LFS install troubles...

2005-08-06 Thread Srinath M
No luck :( Can I post the output of dmesg here? --- "Justin R. Knierim" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Srinath M wrote: > > >I think it might be what Andrew says or simply, my drive lens or > some > >component is not cooperating. I checked the specs on the cdrom. For > my > >Thinkpad 390X, 'crn-

Re: LFS install troubles...

2005-08-06 Thread Srinath M
Actually yes, that could make sense. The system has 128M of physical RAM. I take it that the live CD pools space from this in order to populate the executables. That would leave me with lesser RAM for whatever stuff I do. And to top this all, I simply ASSUMED that 'mkswap /dev/hda2' ensures that sw

Re: LFS install troubles...

2005-08-06 Thread Justin R. Knierim
Srinath M wrote: I think it might be what Andrew says or simply, my drive lens or some component is not cooperating. I checked the specs on the cdrom. For my Thinkpad 390X, 'crn-8241b-(sm)' is the model/unit number or whatever for the CDROM hardware. How much memory do you have? You can alwa

Re: LFS install troubles...

2005-08-06 Thread Srinath M
But I never even started X :( I just finished booting a GNU/HURD live CD (http://www.superunprivileged.org/). I saw similar I/O errors on my first try. When I tried again, no errors. I was at the hurdle login screen without any problems. I think it might be what Andrew says or simply, my drive l

Re: LFS install troubles...

2005-08-06 Thread Ag Hatzim
Srinath M([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Sat, Aug 06, 2005 at 11:33:35AM -0700: > Hi all, > > Everything was going fine till I reached the stage where you install > the first package (binutils) from source. While copying the source from > the liveCD onto the hdd for unpacking, I started getting buffer I/O > e

Re: LFS install troubles...

2005-08-06 Thread Andrew Benton
Srinath M wrote: Obviously, the CDROM drive on my Laptop has gone flaky. Not unnecessarily, it may be that the kernel on the live cd has not been compiled with support for your particular chipset. Now I'm looking for an alternate method to start the installation. The 12 Gig HDD in my Laptop

LFS install troubles...

2005-08-06 Thread Srinath M
Hi all, Everything was going fine till I reached the stage where you install the first package (binutils) from source. While copying the source from the liveCD onto the hdd for unpacking, I started getting buffer I/O errors and the file could not be copied. When I tried a second time after rebooti