Lfs

[Hypz]

I have been using linux since July. I would consider myself a user. I got this idea from reading a post that it would be a good learning experience to install LFS. I was following the online guide 5.1PRE-release. I did everything it told me too. I was half way done downloading all of the packages when Galeon crashed as it tends to do. I wasnt sure what packages it was downloading since I was just going through each download page and just clicking the right version number and then going on to the next one. It only had about 3 or 4 downloads in progress. I decided since I have a cable modem it would be easier to just delete all of the packages I had downloaded and just start over again. Since it would take forever to go down one by one on the LFS guide and seeing which ones I had already installed. So I delete /mnt/LFS, and after that none of my commands work. I cant ls, cd, man, nothing!

I was doing this from within slackware. But I decided to install Redhat because SLACKWARE SUCKS! I couldnt get anything working in it nor get help to fix my continuosly growing problems. Im not really looking for a way to fix this. Just why it happened. I finally thought I had some idea on how to work in linux now I feel like a complete n00b! Please nobody respond with RTFM or try looking on the site. Because I have and it doesnt give any explanation to what your doing just to do it.

[j79zlr]

I donno what you are asking, but if you can't handle slackware, then you probably can't handle LFS

[Hayl]

Originally posted by j79zlr
if you can't handle slackware, then you probably can't handle LFS

agreed

PS: posting that "SLACKWARE SUCKS" is a good way to start a flame war - esp if the Slackware Users see your post... just because it did not work for you or just because you couldn't figure it out, does not mean it "sucks"...

[psi42]

Originally posted by j79zlr
I donno what you are asking, but if you can't handle slackware, then you probably can't handle LFS

Ditto

[Hypz]

Im not really looking for a way to fix this. Just why it happened.

[serz]

Well, give it a try then..

Suggestions were already given.

[JohnT]

I was doing this from within slackware. But I decided to install Redhat because SLACKWARE SUCKS! I couldnt get anything working in it nor get help to fix my continuosly growing problems


Social Services, I understand, provides for those that can't afford it.:p

I have been using linux since July. I would consider myself a user

Then if you decided to install LFS, that would make you a Lfs USER ...wouldn't it?

[Hypz]

Im impressed by all of you. Thanks for the help everyone. And JohnT is hilarious once again. Seriously what a ****ing comedian.

[ph34r]

Why it happened? You probably ran a command somewhere you shouldn't have...

[serz]

In addition to what ph3ar said, if you still have you Slack.. you could make a new thread for your that problem.

[Fryguy8]

did you chroot? did you accidentally delete / by mistake (used an alias that wasn't set?)

If you can't get slackware working, LFS is much more difficult. LFS is EVERYTHING from scratch, there is no package maintainer to make xft and truetype work for mozilla, there is no package maintainer to make sure that the versions of all the graphics libs you are using work together. There is no guarantee that the media player you choose will support all the formats. Use slackware/debian/whatever for a while longer first.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Hypz
Im impressed by all of you. Thanks for the help everyone. And JohnT is hilarious once again. Seriously what a ****ing comedian.


You were doing fairly well and I was about to help, when you made your "Slackware " comment. I am always more than happy to help someone using my favorite distro, but when you slam it, expect the same. Try wget next time, in whatever distro you can handle.:p

[Darkbolt]

Originally posted by Hypz
SLACKWARE SUCKS!
...
Because I have and it doesnt give any explanation to what your doing just to do it.
1)How can a distro that makes you do everything suck? User error != distro sucking...really think about it, it's the oldest surviving distro, tell me how you think it could possibly suck so much, and still be around? logic man...logic

As for Ring T FM...It doesnt tell you what each command does, because it doesnt need to...If you want to know what a script/howto is really doing, man the commands...if you dont know what 'cat /proc/cpuinfo | grep bogo' does...man cat, and man grep, and you should get a fair idea. Believe it or not we're just as lazy as you, and dont feel like looking it all up to give you dictionary definitions any more than you want to go find them for yourself.

[sharth]

But see, how can we really respond saying what happened.. or why it happened...

galeon crashed... okay. that happens. Developers can't get every little case, and o might have hit it, or bad ram or god knows what.

uhm... and thats about it... so you rmed something... but you don't know what. and since i'm going to assume that lfs uses a chroot, I'm oging to assume that you weren't in the chroot...

However, you destroyed the system. SO WE CAN'T HELP YOU.

[Hypz]

Originally posted by Darkbolt
1)How can a distro that makes you do everything suck? User error != distro sucking...really think about it, it's the oldest surviving distro, tell me how you think it could possibly suck so much, and still be around? logic man...logic


I wasnt even talking about Slackware. I was referring to LFS. If its this big learning experience then why the **** am I more confused now than in the beginning? Im not interested in anybodys help anymore I'll just go RTFM.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by Hypz
If its this big learning experience then why the **** am I more confused now than in the beginning?


U-M-M-M, Possibly you didn't study before the big exam and stayed out too late? Or it could be that your self taught.:cool:

[mdwatts]

Originally posted by Hypz
I wasnt even talking about Slackware. I was referring to LFS. If its this big learning experience then why the **** am I more confused now than in the beginning? Im not interested in anybodys help anymore I'll just go RTFM.

Then I'll just move this to /dev/random.

[JohnT]

Originally posted by mdwatts
Then I'll just move this to /dev/random.

Make install -/dev/randoom:p