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    <div class="moz-cite-prefix">Don't make your bootable an extended (I
      don't think this will work if I remember right), and why is swap
      first?<br>
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      Do yourself a favor, and unless dealing with windoze, just make
      your bootable the first partiton.  Give it 250mb, make it /boot,
      done.  Get jiggy with it any other way from there.  That'll
      support raid, crypto, lvm, btrfs, zfs, or whatever else you want
      to do as long as there's always a clean /boot first and modules
      are hooked in your initrd.<br>
      <br>
      -mb<br>
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      On 07/25/2014 02:59 PM, Michael Havens wrote:<br>
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      <div dir="ltr">Cool... it seems a more recent version of cfdisk
        will create filesystems but the version of cfdisk on the host
        system won't. How can I get that version? I tried to apt-get
        (thinking it was a more recent version) it but it couldn't find
        cfdisk and the package it comes in is already the most recent
        version. Could I download and compile it? or do you think cfdisk
        was modified by the distribution (mx14) it came on?<br>
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        <div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
        <br>
        <br>
        <div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:54 PM,
          Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a moz-do-not-send="true"
              href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span>
          wrote:<br>
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                <div>I was so excited! I installed the debian syatem but
                  when I tried to mount the LFS partition it said <br>
                  <br>
                  "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on
                  /dev/sda9,<br>
                         missing codepage or helper program, or other
                  error<br>
                         In some cases useful info is found in syslog -
                  try<br>
                         dmesg | tail  or so"<br>
                  <br>
                  then as I was trying to investigate the LFS partitions
                  cfdisk wouldn't even start and fdisk kept saying <br>
                  <br>
                  "Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4
                  will be corrected by w(rite)"<br>
                  <br>
                  Writing didn't correct the problem so instead of
                  bugging you I figured that this might have something
                  to do with the fact that I set the  LFS partitions up
                  when I installed debian. So I reinstalled debian w/o
                  setting up the LFS partitions and now now cfdisk
                  starts and I set the partitions up. But it won't let
                  me create the file system. this is what happens:<br>
                  <br>
                  root@debian:~# mkfs -v -t ext4 /dev/sda6<br>
                  mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)<br>
                  Could not stat /dev/sda6 --- No such file or directory<br>
                  The device apparently does not exist; did you specify
                  it correctly?<br>
                  <br>
                  root@debian:~# fdisk /dev/sda<br>
                  Command (m for help): p<br>
                  Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes<br>
                  255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders, total
                  488281250 sectors<br>
                  Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes<br>
                  Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
                  I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes<br>
                  Disk identifier: 0x0007bc26<br>
                     Device Boot      Start         End      Blocks  
                  Id  System<br>
                  /dev/sda1            2048     7813119     3905536  
                  82  Linux swap / Solaris<br>
                  /dev/sda2         7815166   488281249   240233042   
                  5  Extended<br>
                  /dev/sda5   *     7815168   105469951    48827392  
                  83  Linux<br>
                  /dev/sda6       437499848   476569864    19535008+ 
                  83  Linux<br>
                  /dev/sda7       476569928   488281249     5855661  
                  82  Linux swap / Solaris<br>
                  <br>
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                as you can see the device does exist. sda1 is swap for
                the debian system which is in sda5. sda6 is going to be
                the LFS system and sda7 is going to be the swap for LFS
                when I get done.<br>
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              Please, what did I do wrong or else what is the problem?<br>
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                  <div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
                  <br>
                  <br>
                  <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:11
                    AM, Michael Havens <span dir="ltr"><<a
                        moz-do-not-send="true"
                        href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>></span>
                    wrote:<br>
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                      <div dir="ltr">well..... I just  realized that
                        there must be a reason that the glibc line was
                        commented out in the LFS book so I'm not going
                        to worry about it. regarding your line I did
                        enter it and it  returned nothing. then I
                        re-read the the text concerning that and it
                        finally dawned on me..... I want all of them or
                        none of them and if I only had 1 or two of them
                        it is okay to delete the ones that are there. I
                        get there.... even if it does take me a little
                        longer. I wish this wasn't the case but at least
                        I can blame the head injury for the
                        difficulties. I'll start working on it when I
                        get home from work tonight.</div>
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                        <div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
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                            <div class="gmail_quote">On Thu, Jul 24,
                              2014 at 5:27 AM, <span dir="ltr"><<a
                                  moz-do-not-send="true"
                                  href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com"
                                  target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>></span>
                              wrote:<br>
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                                Michael, have you even looked at what is
                                in line 32 of your version-check.sh?<br>
                                Among other things, because 'glibc' is
                                more than a program (it is more like the
                                whole engine running under the hood),
                                and your system would not even boot up
                                is you don't have 'glibc' (which is a
                                whole lot system)<br>
                                You'll learn that as you read LFS. <br>
                                Did you ever try:<br>
                                find /lib/ /*/lib/ -name lib${X}.la<br>
                                ET <br>
                                <br>
                                Michael Havens writes: <br>
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                                    well, I didn't have a problem
                                    getting these files with a standard<br>
                                    installation of debian; it was only
                                    after I tried with a net install of<br>
                                    debia. So right now I'm downloading
                                    a current dvd iso of debian and
                                    after<br>
                                    the install I'll see if that helps.
                                    <br>
                                    :-)~MIKE~(-: <br>
                                    <br>
                                    On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:49 PM,
                                    Michael Havens <<a
                                      moz-do-not-send="true"
                                      href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com"
                                      target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>>
                                    wrote: <br>
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                                      well I installed gmp  the way it
                                      instructed and then I did a search
                                      for<br>
                                      mpfr on the same website and
                                      installed it as well, but couldn't
                                      find gibc<br>
                                      or mpc. I was going to do a search
                                      for the missing files but figured
                                      I<br>
                                      would run version-check first to
                                      ensure I wasn't just spinning my
                                      wheels.<br>
                                      It appears the two files were not
                                      installed correctly enough for
                                      LInux from<br>
                                      Scratch.<br>
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                                    gmp
                                    <div>
                                      <div><br>
                                        ~$ bash version-check.sh<br>
                                        ---truncate---<br>
                                        version-check.sh: line 32:
                                        glibc: command not found<br>
                                        g++ compilation OK<br>
                                        <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          href="http://libgmp.la"
                                          target="_blank">libgmp.la</a>:
                                        found<br>
                                        <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          href="http://libmpfr.la"
                                          target="_blank">libmpfr.la</a>:
                                        found<br>
                                        <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          href="http://libmpc.la"
                                          target="_blank">libmpc.la</a>:
                                        not found <br>
                                        <br>
                                        :-)~MIKE~(-: <br>
                                        <br>
                                        On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:25
                                        AM, Stephen Partington <<a
                                          moz-do-not-send="true"
                                          href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com"
                                          target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a><br>
                                        > wrote: <br>
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                                          this is what it is after: <br>
                                          GNU Multiple Precision
                                          Arithmetic Library<br>
                                          The GNU Multiple Precision
                                          Arithmetic Library is a free
                                          library for<br>
                                          arbitrary-precision
                                          arithmetic, operating on
                                          signed integers, rational<br>
                                          numbers, and floating point
                                          numbers.<br>
                                          <a moz-do-not-send="true"
                                            href="http://petio.org/tools/gmp.html"
                                            target="_blank">http://petio.org/tools/gmp.html</a>
                                          has some nice refrence
                                          material as well. <br>
                                          *Snip*<br>
                                          --<br>
                                          A mouse trap, placed on top of
                                          your alarm clock, will prevent
                                          you from<br>
                                          rolling over and going back to
                                          sleep after you hit the snooze
                                          button. <br>
                                          Stephen <br>
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