setting up file system
Michael Butash
michael at butash.net
Fri Jul 25 15:06:59 MST 2014
Don't make your bootable an extended (I don't think this will work if I
remember right), and why is swap first?
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.
-mb
On 07/25/2014 02:59 PM, Michael Havens wrote:
> 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?
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
>
> On Fri, Jul 25, 2014 at 1:54 PM, Michael Havens <bmike1 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> 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 at 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 at 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 at gmail.com
> <mailto:bmike1 at 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 at kitepilot.com
> <mailto:kitepilot at 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${X}.la
> ET
>
> Michael Havens writes:
>
> well, I didn't have a problem getting these files with
> a standard
> installation of debian; it was only after I tried with
> a net install of
> debia. So right now I'm downloading a current dvd iso
> of debian and after
> the install I'll see if that helps.
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 12:49 PM, Michael Havens
> <bmike1 at gmail.com <mailto:bmike1 at gmail.com>> wrote:
>
> well I installed gmp the way it instructed and
> then I did a search for
> mpfr on the same website and installed it as well,
> but couldn't find gibc
> or mpc. I was going to do a search for the missing
> files but figured I
> would run version-check first to ensure I wasn't
> just spinning my wheels.
> It appears the two files were not installed
> correctly enough for LInux from
> Scratch.
> gmp
>
> ~$ bash version-check.sh
> ---truncate---
> version-check.sh: line 32: glibc: command not found
> g++ compilation OK
> libgmp.la <http://libgmp.la>: found
> libmpfr.la <http://libmpfr.la>: found
> libmpc.la <http://libmpc.la>: not found
>
> :-)~MIKE~(-:
>
> On Tue, Jul 22, 2014 at 11:25 AM, Stephen
> Partington <cryptworks at gmail.com
> <mailto:cryptworks at 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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