Steve Fosdick wrote:
One possibility would simply be permissions on the /dev/hda device file
- you are running fdisk and/or cfdisk as root aren't you?
Thanks for the quick response Steve. That was the problem. I was so keenly observing the adage of "do not take the name of root in vain" that I had overlooked the need to be root to do serious stuff to the system. I managed to get there by myself at just about the time that you posted.
I am using the new partition to creat a Linux from Scratch system. Has anyone experience of this?
Dave Crease
David Crease david@creases.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
I am using the new partition to creat a Linux from Scratch system. Has anyone experience of this?
Yes, although it depends how much "from scratch" you mean. I started with a few choice things precompiled (like the compiler! and X, as my machine was not *that* fast) but built most of the rest and used GNU Stow to keep it all under control. A very useful learning experience for people interested in how the system hangs together, but not really for general use ;-)
MJR
MJ Ray wrote on Sunday, November 17, 2002 11:32 AM
David Crease david@creases.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
I am using the new partition to creat a Linux from Scratch system. Has anyone experience of this?
Yes, although it depends how much "from scratch" you mean. I started with a few choice things precompiled (like the compiler! and X, as my machine was not *that* fast) but built most of the rest and used GNU Stow to keep it all under control. A very useful learning experience for people interested in how the system hangs together, but not really for general use ;-)
MJR
I built a LFS system earlier this year as a way of getting into GNU/Linux fairly quickly. I found it really useful and a lot of fun. I had the advantage of a fair bit of Unix experience about 10 years ago but it was still a fairly sharp learning curve. Be prepared to do a fair bit of reading of man pages and how to's.
I'm now setting up a system based on Debian Woody, and the LFS exercise means I'm more aware of what's going on under the bonnet, so to speak.
Regards,
Keith
On Sunday 17 November 2002 11:32, MJ Ray wrote:
David Crease david@creases.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
I am using the new partition to creat a Linux from Scratch system. Has anyone experience of this?
Yes, although it depends how much "from scratch" you mean. I started with a few choice things precompiled (like the compiler! and X, as my machine was not *that* fast) but built most of the rest and used GNU Stow to keep it all under control. A very useful learning experience for people interested in how the system hangs together, but not really for general use ;-)
MJR
Why isn't it very good for general use then? I thought I'd better ask, since I'm in the middle of downloading the packages for it ;-)
(planning to put it on my old P100 (after putting another distro on it since it's only got win95 on it ATM) so I can put it into use for....something....I dunno really <G>. The problem I'm pretty sure the CD-ROM drive in the P100 doesn't read CD-Rs. I had better rethink this I think)
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BenEBoy mail@psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Why isn't it very good for general use then? [...]
Imagine teaching your cousin who's new to computers (and a bit of a technophobe) how to download and compile his own software. Now imagine him teaching himself. Does it gain him much over being able to get it all precompiled?
That's all I was meaning, not that you can't build a general-purpose system from scratch.
On Monday 18 November 2002 23:02, MJ Ray wrote:
Imagine teaching your cousin who's new to computers (and a bit of a technophobe) how to download and compile his own software. Now imagine him teaching himself. Does it gain him much over being able to get it all precompiled?
That's all I was meaning, not that you can't build a general-purpose system from scratch.
Right, my misunterstanding of 'general purpose' then :-)
On with the downloading...
BenEBoy mail@psychoferret.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
Right, my misunterstanding of 'general purpose' then :-)
"general use" I think I said, but it's all just semantics.
On with the downloading...
Enjoy the bitwash...
I was trying to install GNOME 2.0 yesterday, all went fine until I ran the configure script for sawfish. It errored out saying that I needed rep-gtk 0.14 installed. This was a bit funny since I had made (maked?) it just a few minutes before hand (version 0.14).
When I installed rep-gtk (and librep before it) 'make install' came back with a message 'warning: remember to run `libtool --finish/opt/gnome2/libexec /rep/i686-pc-linux-gnu' which I did. I also ran ldconfig to be on the safe side and (after the sawfish configure script crashed out the first time) added the path to ld.conf.so to be on the safe side. I'm *guessing* the problem has something to do with this?
Could somebody shed some light for me please (this is the first problem I encountered after compiing 30ish files yesterday so I'm a bit peeved).
I'm using SuSE 8.0 and the basic GNOME 2.0 packages apart from texinfo which I had to download the lastest version since it wasn't included.
thanks a lot,
BenE
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