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Can I name my own LFS distro?
The question is... about LFS (Linux From Scratch), if I would build a Linux system, with LFS, is it 100% mine? Could I say I made all this from scratch?
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LFS System not booting or GRUB cannot access /bood/grub on boot
The closest question I could find is this one, however it is still quite a bit different from what I am needing: GRUB fails to install
My specific setup and the steps I followed to produce this
I am ...
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Do I only need one swap partition for multiple Linux distros? (and other questions)
I have Linux Mint 14 installed as my only OS. I have one extended partition containing /swap, / and /home, and I have some unallocated space on my drive.
I'm guessing that Mint decided to put this ...
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Eglibc cannot compile suffix of object files while trying to cross compile
I'm currently making my way through Trac's CLFS book.
When trying to configure the 32-bit version of EGLIBC-2.15, using the options:
BUILD_CC="gcc" CC="${CLFS_TARGET}-gcc ${BUILD32}" \
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LFS can't cd to lfs/source - permission denied
I'm trying to build a LFS using version 7.1. I've followed all of the steps up to 5.3 and now I'm stuck because I can't change to $LFS/sources - I get the message:
bash: cd: /mnt/lfs/sources: ...
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Linux from Binaries
I thought Linux from Scratch was a pretty cool tutorial, but I felt having to wait for everything to compile was a bit nerve-wreaking.
Is there a tutorial similar to LFS except pre-compiled binaries ...
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Cross LFS - PPC - Error while compiling
I'm trying to build a CLFS for a PPC 8270 processor. All is fine until I use the make ARCH=powerpc CROSS_COMPILE=${CLFS_TARGET}- command.
CC arch/powerpc/kernel/align.o
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How do I search for Linux distro build tools?
After having worked through Linux From Scratch, I get the eerie feeling that in practice, this is not how new distros are built.
How do I search for tools that other distributions are built with? Is ...
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Linux from scratch's bash problem: $() syntax error
When I try to build the glibc following the Linux from scratch instruction Chapter 6.9. Glibc-2.14.1, I get a syntax error about $(command).
The simplified problem is that I can type
echo `ls`
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Will I be able to build LFS using dash and mawk?
I decided that I want to learn more about Linux and try building LFS. I'm using Ubuntu 11.04 as host system and Ubuntu uses dash and mawk by default. I've changed mawk to gawk, but considering that ...
