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2006-04-03 Thread Faheem Mohammed
Sorry everyone for the misleading title... Anyway.. i just booted into my spanking new LFS system... everything is lightning fast... ahhh.. (at the risk of sounding like an academy award speech) Thank you lfs-support, thank you community, thank you OSS... It's great to be able to build a s

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2007-01-20 Thread Vince Greg
Hello, Thank you very much for your help with my error with grub. With cfdisk I changed the partition id into 83 and now my system boot very welll Thaks a lot -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above

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2006-04-03 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 4/3/06, Faheem Mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > It's great to be able to build a system from scratch and i learnt more > in these last few days as opposed to all these years i have been > fiddling with *.nix... > Beautiful. Congratulations. Getting that first build up and running is a gre

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2006-04-04 Thread Thomas Görblich
Dan Nicholson wrote on 04.04.2006 00:43: On 4/3/06, Faheem Mohammed <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: It's great to be able to build a system from scratch and i learnt more in these last few days as opposed to all these years i have been fiddling with *.nix... Beautiful. Congratulations. Getting tha

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2006-04-04 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 4/4/06, Thomas Görblich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just built my first LFS and it went so smooth > that I was almost disappointed that I had not a single question to ask > here ;) I'm glad to hear that. Incidentally, I'm often curious how many people this is the case for. Most (all) of

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2006-04-04 Thread Warren Wilder
Dan Nicholson wrote: On 4/4/06, Thomas Görblich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: I just built my first LFS and it went so smooth that I was almost disappointed that I had not a single question to ask here ;) I'm glad to hear that. Incidentally, I'm often curious how many people this is the case f

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2006-04-04 Thread Thomas Görblich
Warren Wilder wrote on 04.04.2006 17:29: Dan Nicholson wrote: Most (all) of the posts here are from people having problems. It starts to make you feel that the book needs improvement. I'd like to see some actual statistics of people who made it through cleanly on the first try. Isn't there

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2006-04-04 Thread Roger Merchberger
Rumor has it that =?ISO-8859-15?Q?Thomas_G=F6rblich?= may have mentioned these words: Warren Wilder wrote on 04.04.2006 17:29: Dan Nicholson wrote: Most (all) of the posts here are from people having problems. It starts to make you feel that the book needs improvement. I'd like to see some ac

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2006-04-04 Thread Mike Clawson
>By the way, Dan, I wouldn't want to say that having a problem building >LFS always makes the book need improvement. The important thing is that >the book helps you to solve that problem, because that is how you learn >more about your system. Some might profit most from the essential >pre-readi

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2006-04-05 Thread Dave Abergel
Dan > Most (all) of the posts here are from > people having problems. It starts to make you feel that the book > needs improvement. I'd like to see some actual statistics of people > who made it through cleanly on the first try. I biffed my first try > with many of the same problems that come u

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2006-04-05 Thread Allard Welter
On Wednesday 05 April 2006 10:10, Dave Abergel wrote: [...] > My memory is that I did not make it through LFS cleanly first time, > but that I didn't need to ask questions of the list because all my > issues were covered by previous posts which I found in the archives. > If there is one thing tha

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2006-04-05 Thread John Gay
On Tuesday 04 April 2006 14:24, Dan Nicholson wrote: > On 4/4/06, Thomas Görblich <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I just built my first LFS and it went so smooth > > that I was almost disappointed that I had not a single question to ask > > here ;) > > I'm glad to hear that. Incidentally, I'm often

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2006-04-06 Thread Jonathan Webb
I think I restarted my LFS build four.. maybe five times. Almost all of my build issues came from skimming the secrions too quickly and either: executing a code block that I shouldn't have (tests I didn't need or commands that didn't apply to my system), or not executing something that was mentione

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2006-04-06 Thread Ken Moffat
On Thu, 6 Apr 2006, Jonathan Webb wrote: > My last full run through was a complete success using the LiveCD and > Development LFS book (back in Jan or Feb) with deviations for the > newest versions of most software packages. > Glad it worked for you, but can I throw in the obligatory 'FBBG' comm

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2006-04-07 Thread Henry christenson
> Always nice to hear of people who build without problems, although it > makes me jealous :-o > > Ken > -- > das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: Se

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2006-04-07 Thread Paul G Rogers
> I'd like to see some actual statistics of people who made it through cleanly > on the first try. I biffed my first try with many of the same problems that come > up weekly here, so I know that's not me. My first was with LFS-4.1, a year ago last November. That was hand done and I forget now w

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2006-04-07 Thread Randy McMurchy
On Fri, 2006-04-07 at 18:40 -0700, Paul G Rogers wrote: > My first was with LFS-4.1, a year ago last November. Why on earth would you have built LFS-4.1 a year ago last November? That was not the current version. In fact, it was very old. No wonder you had issues building it. -- Randy rmlinux

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2006-04-07 Thread [EMAIL PROTECTED]
>> My first was with LFS-4.1, a year ago last November. >Why on earth would you have built LFS-4.1 a year ago last November? >That was not the current version. In fact, it was very old. No >wonder you had issues building it. >-- >Randy Don't judge so fast. I had three very good reasons, and my

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2006-04-08 Thread Jeremy Monnet
On 4/8/06, Paul G Rogers <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > I'd like to see some actual statistics of people who made it through > cleanly > > on the first try. > That went very smoothly. My recent experience with LFS-6.1.1 was again > from cut & paste scripts. I did also 6.1.1 from nearly cut and pa

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2006-04-08 Thread Eric Stout
> And yes, a package manager may be nice. LFS with a package manager would be Gentoo or Ubuntu :) Eric -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page

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2006-04-08 Thread Jeremy Monnet
On 4/8/06, Eric Stout <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > And yes, a package manager may be nice. > > LFS with a package manager would be Gentoo or Ubuntu :) > Nope, when we talk about package manager, we d'on't talk about something that would install or uninstall something automatically for you. We ju

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2006-04-08 Thread Jeremy Huntwork
On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:50:56AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > (a) I had the CD in hand. Which CD? The first official CD for LFS was for version 6.0. There were a few individuals that made and released LFS-based CDs before that but nothing that was actually part of the LFS project. Not that

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2006-04-08 Thread Henry christenson
On 4/8/06, Jeremy Huntwork <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:50:56AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > (a) I had the CD in hand. > > Which CD? The first official CD for LFS was for version 6.0. There were > a few individuals that made and released LFS-based CDs before that b

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2006-04-09 Thread Paul G Rogers
>On Sat, Apr 08, 2006 at 06:50:56AM +, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: >> (a) I had the CD in hand. >Which CD? The first official CD for LFS was for version 6.0. There were >a few individuals that made and released LFS-based CDs before that but >nothing that was actually part of the LFS project. Not t

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2006-04-10 Thread Nils Jeppe
Can you please lock the list down? I get enough spam as it is. Thanks. On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hey, I wanted to thank you for signing up and helping me out. Don't forget, you only need to complete one offer. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinf

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2006-04-10 Thread Shane Shields
On Mon, 2006-04-10 at 13:17 +0200, Nils Jeppe wrote: > Can you please lock the list down? I get enough spam as it is. > > Thanks. Can you please not reply to the list without trimming the spammed message and stuffing up the spam filters. -- Shane Shields Registered LFS Compiler: 7582 To drink t

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2006-04-10 Thread Eric Stout
> Can you please lock the list down? I get enough spam as it is. I second the request. I have gone so far to get rid of spam on my system that I have implimented a whitelist-only email system. Now it's seeping in through a mailing list! Eric -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lf

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2006-04-10 Thread Nils Jeppe
On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Shane Shields wrote: Can you please lock the list down? I get enough spam as it is. Thanks. Can you please not reply to the list without trimming the spammed message and stuffing up the spam filters. I did trim the spam like I trim all email I quote. Stop wasting my

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2006-04-10 Thread Shane Shields
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2006-04-10 Thread Hari
On 4/10/06, Nils Jeppe <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > Can you please lock the list down? I get enough spam as it is. This was raised a while back [1] and was replied to [2, 3, 4]. My understanding is we will have to live with it. Miken 1. http://linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/website/2005-Novemb

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2006-04-11 Thread Nils Jeppe
That seems to have been about email adresses on the archives. I am complaining about actual spam on this list. Anyway, I'll settle the issue via normal spam complaints to the ISPs involved. Best wishes, - Nils On Mon, 10 Apr 2006, Hari wrote: This was raised a while back [1] and was r