Re: [lfs-support] the new Linux Subsystem in Win 10

2017-04-28 Thread Douglas R. Reno
On Sat, Apr 29, 2017 at 1:35 AM, Rob wrote: > Last year I heard that M$ was including a Ubuntu-based subsystem in its > Windows 10 product. I wasn't sure this was actually going to work very > well, but apparently it does. > Can this be used to build LFS? I'm not sure it can because of the ext* >

Re: [lfs-support] Using an SSD with LFS

2017-04-28 Thread akhiezer
> Date: Sat, 29 Apr 2017 07:32:00 +0100 > From: lf...@cruziero.com (akhiezer) > > > Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 23:57:11 -0400 > > From: Michael Shell > > > > On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:29:00 +0100 > > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > > > Thanks to both of you for this thread - I had assumed that only > > > DataCe

[lfs-support] the new Linux Subsystem in Win 10

2017-04-28 Thread Rob
Last year I heard that M$ was including a Ubuntu-based subsystem in its Windows 10 product. I wasn't sure this was actually going to work very well, but apparently it does. Can this be used to build LFS? I'm not sure it can because of the ext* file systems you would need, but i'm curious nonethe

Re: [lfs-support] Using an SSD with LFS

2017-04-28 Thread akhiezer
> Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2017 23:57:11 -0400 > From: Michael Shell > > On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:29:00 +0100 > Ken Moffat wrote: > > > Thanks to both of you for this thread - I had assumed that only > > DataCenter-grade products (as in "unaffordable") were nvme, and those > > (of course) have ridiculous

Re: [lfs-support] Using an SSD with LFS

2017-04-28 Thread Michael Shell
On Sat, 29 Apr 2017 00:29:00 +0100 Ken Moffat wrote: > Thanks to both of you for this thread - I had assumed that only > DataCenter-grade products (as in "unaffordable") were nvme, and those > (of course) have ridiculous prices. Bearing in mind that I haven't played with SSD's (yet), but lookin

Re: [lfs-support] Using an SSD with LFS

2017-04-28 Thread Ken Moffat
On Wed, Apr 26, 2017 at 09:41:34PM +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > On Wed, 2017-04-26 at 21:37 +1200, Simon Geard wrote: > > On Tue, 2017-04-25 at 23:36 +1000, Wayne Blaszczyk wrote: > > > As mentioned in my previous email, I got a Sumsung 250GB SSD 960 EVO > > > M.2. Apparently the M.2 SSD drives

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5's tar bug

2017-04-28 Thread Paul Rogers
> Just to be clear, it looks like tar-1.29 expects /bin/sh to be present > for it to execute external commands like gzip. I can see there is also > a SHELL environment variable involved (in the source code), but I'm > not sure how it's used. See xexec and sys_spawn_shell functions in > src/system.c

Re: [lfs-support] Chapter 5's tar bug

2017-04-28 Thread Wayne Blaszczyk
On Thu, 2017-04-27 at 15:51 -0700, Paul Rogers wrote: > > Can you try creating a /bin/sh link first and then see what happens. > > e.g. > > ln -fsv bash /bin/sh > > tar czf dummy.tgz /usr > > > > Regards, > > Wayne. > > Ah, I see what you're thinking.  It's one of those things that > *shouldn't*