<div dir="ltr"><div>it's good now. I installed the gnu-fdisk package and used the cfdisk executable from there. I could only install ext2 but after I did that mkfs worked to upgrade it to ext4. The reason I used mkfs as opposed to mke2fs is that the LFS book told me to use mkfs. Why should I have used mke2fs?<br>
<br>root@debian:~# cat /proc/partitions<br>major minor #blocks name<br><br> 8 0 244140625 sda<br> 8 1 3905536 sda1<br> 8 2 1 sda2<br> 8 5 48827392 sda5<br> 8 6 19535008 sda6<br>
8 7 5855661 sda7<br> 11 0 1048575 sr0<br>root@debian:~# <br><br></div>udev is running:<br>root@debian:~# ps -e |grep udev<br> 402 ? 00:00:00 udevd<br>13624 ? 00:00:00 udevd<br>13628 ? 00:00:00 udevd<br>
root@debian:~# <br><br><div>root@debian:~# ls -l /dev/sd*<br>brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 0 Jul 26 00:09 /dev/sda<br>brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 1 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sda1<br>brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 2 Jul 26 00:07 /dev/sda2<br>
brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 5 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sda5<br>brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 6 Jul 26 00:10 /dev/sda6<br>brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 7 Jul 26 00:07 /dev/sda7<br>brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 16 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sdb<br>
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 32 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sdc<br>brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 48 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sdd<br>brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 64 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sde<br>root@debian:~# <br></div><div> (I don't know why it is saying sdab-e are floppies. There is not a floppy drive in this machine.)<br>
</div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div>:-)~MIKE~(-:</div>
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:17 PM, <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com" target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
What does:<br>
cat /proc/partitions<br>
say? <br>
Why are you using mkfs ?<br>
Why not mke2fs ?<br>
ET <br><div class="HOEnZb"><div class="h5">
Michael Havens writes: <br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
I was so excited! I installed the debian syatem but when I tried to mount<br>
the LFS partition it said <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>
then as I was trying to investigate the LFS partitions cfdisk wouldn't even<br>
start and fdisk kept saying <br>
"Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by<br>
w(rite)" <br>
Writing didn't correct the problem so instead of bugging you I figured that<br>
this might have something to do with the fact that I set the LFS<br>
partitions up when I installed debian. So I reinstalled debian w/o setting<br>
up the LFS partitions and now now cfdisk starts and I set the partitions<br>
up. But it won't let me create the file system. this is what happens: <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>
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>
as you can see the device does exist. sda1 is swap for the debian system<br>
which is in sda5. sda6 is going to be the LFS system and sda7 is going to<br>
be the swap for LFS when I get done. <br>
Please, what did I do wrong or else what is the problem? <br>
:-)~MIKE~(-: <br>
<br>
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Michael Havens <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>> wrote: <br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
well..... I just realized that there must be a reason that the glibc line<br>
was commented out in the LFS book so I'm not going to worry about it.<br>
regarding your line I did enter it and it returned nothing. then I re-read<br>
the the text concerning that and it finally dawned on me..... I want all of<br>
them or none of them and if I only had 1 or two of them it is okay to<br>
delete the ones that are there. I get there.... even if it does take me a<br>
little longer. I wish this wasn't the case but at least I can blame the<br>
head injury for the difficulties. I'll start working on it when I get home<br>
from work tonight. <br>
:-)~MIKE~(-: <br>
<br>
On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:27 AM, <<a href="mailto:kitepilot@kitepilot.com" target="_blank">kitepilot@kitepilot.com</a>> wrote: <br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
Michael, have you even looked at what is in line 32 of your<br>
version-check.sh?<br>
Among other things, because 'glibc' is more than a program (it is more<br>
like the whole engine running under the hood), and your system would not<br>
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${X}.la<br>
ET <br>
Michael Havens writes: <br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
well, I didn't have a problem getting these files with a standard<br>
installation of debian; it was only after I tried with a net install of<br>
debia. So right now I'm downloading a current dvd iso of debian and after<br>
the install I'll see if that helps.<br>
:-)~MIKE~(-: <br>
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Michael Havens <<a href="mailto:bmike1@gmail.com" target="_blank">bmike1@gmail.com</a>><br>
wrote: <br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
well I installed gmp the way it instructed and then I did a search for<br>
mpfr on the same website and installed it as well, but couldn't find<br>
gibc<br>
or mpc. I was going to do a search for the missing files but figured I<br>
would run version-check first to ensure I wasn't just spinning my<br>
wheels.<br>
It appears the two files were not installed correctly enough for LInux<br>
from<br>
Scratch.<br>
gmp <br>
~$ bash version-check.sh<br>
---truncate---<br>
version-check.sh: line 32: glibc: command not found<br>
g++ compilation OK<br>
<a href="http://libgmp.la" target="_blank">libgmp.la</a>: found<br>
<a href="http://libmpfr.la" target="_blank">libmpfr.la</a>: found<br>
<a href="http://libmpc.la" target="_blank">libmpc.la</a>: not found <br>
:-)~MIKE~(-: <br>
On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Stephen Partington <<br>
<a href="mailto:cryptworks@gmail.com" target="_blank">cryptworks@gmail.com</a><br>
> wrote: <br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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 href="http://petio.org/tools/gmp.html" target="_blank">http://petio.org/tools/gmp.<u></u>html</a> has some nice refrence material as<br>
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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