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?
root@debian:~# cat /proc/partitions
major minor #blocks name
8 0 244140625 sda
8 1 3905536 sda1
8 2 1 sda2
8 5 48827392 sda5
8 6 19535008 sda6
8 7 5855661 sda7
11 0 1048575 sr0
root@debian:~#
udev is running:
root@debian:~# ps -e |grep udev
402 ? 00:00:00 udevd
13624 ? 00:00:00 udevd
13628 ? 00:00:00 udevd
root@debian:~#
root@debian:~# ls -l /dev/sd*
brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 0 Jul 26 00:09 /dev/sda
brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 1 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sda1
brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 2 Jul 26 00:07 /dev/sda2
brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 5 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sda5
brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 6 Jul 26 00:10 /dev/sda6
brw-rw---T 1 root disk 8, 7 Jul 26 00:07 /dev/sda7
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 16 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sdb
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 32 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sdc
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 48 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sdd
brw-rw---T 1 root floppy 8, 64 Jul 25 12:41 /dev/sde
root@debian:~#
(I don't know why it is saying sdab-e are floppies. There is not a floppy
drive in this machine.)
:-)~MIKE~(-:
On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 5:17 PM, <
kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
> What does:
> cat /proc/partitions
> say?
> Why are you using mkfs ?
> Why not mke2fs ?
> ET
> Michael Havens writes:
>
>> I was so excited! I installed the debian syatem but when I tried to mount
>> the LFS partition it said
>> "mount: wrong fs type, bad option, bad superblock on /dev/sda9,
>> missing codepage or helper program, or other error
>> In some cases useful info is found in syslog - try
>> dmesg | tail or so"
>> then as I was trying to investigate the LFS partitions cfdisk wouldn't
>> even
>> start and fdisk kept saying
>> "Warning: invalid flag 0x0000 of partition table 4 will be corrected by
>> w(rite)"
>> 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:
>> root@debian:~# mkfs -v -t ext4 /dev/sda6
>> mke2fs 1.42.5 (29-Jul-2012)
>> Could not stat /dev/sda6 --- No such file or directory
>> The device apparently does not exist; did you specify it correctly?
>> root@debian:~# fdisk /dev/sda
>> Command (m for help): p
>> Disk /dev/sda: 250.0 GB, 250000000000 bytes
>> 255 heads, 63 sectors/track, 30394 cylinders, total 488281250 sectors
>> Units = sectors of 1 * 512 = 512 bytes
>> Sector size (logical/physical): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> I/O size (minimum/optimal): 512 bytes / 512 bytes
>> Disk identifier: 0x0007bc26
>> Device Boot Start End Blocks Id System
>> /dev/sda1 2048 7813119 3905536 82 Linux swap /
>> Solaris
>> /dev/sda2 7815166 488281249 240233042 5 Extended
>> /dev/sda5 * 7815168 105469951 48827392 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda6 437499848 476569864 19535008+ 83 Linux
>> /dev/sda7 476569928 488281249 5855661 82 Linux swap /
>> Solaris
>> 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.
>> Please, what did I do wrong or else what is the problem?
>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>
>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 6:11 AM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
>> wrote:
>>
>>> 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.
>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>
>>> On Thu, Jul 24, 2014 at 5:27 AM, <kitepilot@kitepilot.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>> Michael, have you even looked at what is in line 32 of your
>>>> version-check.sh?
>>>> 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)
>>>> You'll learn that as you read LFS.
>>>> Did you ever try:
>>>> find /lib/ /*/lib/ -name lib${X}.la
>>>> ET
>>>> Michael Havens writes:
>>>>
>>>>> well, I didn't have a problem getting these files with a standard
>>>>> installation of debian; it was only after I tried with a net install of
>>>>> debia. So right now I'm downloading a current dvd iso of debian and
>>>>> after
>>>>> the install I'll see if that helps.
>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1@gmail.com>
>>>>> wrote:
>>>>>
>>>>>> well I installed gmp the way it instructed and then I did a search
>>>>>> for
>>>>>> mpfr on the same website and installed it as well, but couldn't find
>>>>>> gibc
>>>>>> or mpc. I was going to do a search for the missing files but figured I
>>>>>> would run version-check first to ensure I wasn't just spinning my
>>>>>> wheels.
>>>>>> It appears the two files were not installed correctly enough for LInux
>>>>>> from
>>>>>> Scratch.
>>>>>> gmp
>>>>>> ~$ bash version-check.sh
>>>>>> ---truncate---
>>>>>> version-check.sh: line 32: glibc: command not found
>>>>>> g++ compilation OK
>>>>>> libgmp.la: found
>>>>>> libmpfr.la: found
>>>>>> libmpc.la: not found
>>>>>> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>>>>>> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Stephen Partington <
>>>>>> cryptworks@gmail.com
>>>>>> > wrote:
>>>>>>
>>>>>>> this is what it is after:
>>>>>>> GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library
>>>>>>> The GNU Multiple Precision Arithmetic Library is a free library for
>>>>>>> arbitrary-precision arithmetic, operating on signed integers,
>>>>>>> rational
>>>>>>> numbers, and floating point numbers.
>>>>>>> http://petio.org/tools/gmp.html has some nice refrence material as
>>>>>>> well.
>>>>>>> *Snip*
>>>>>>> --
>>>>>>> A mouse trap, placed on top of your alarm clock, will prevent you
>>>>>>> from
>>>>>>> rolling over and going back to sleep after you hit the snooze button.
>>>>>>> Stephen
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