[Beds] Re: MOUNT QUERY AND BOOTSRAP QUERY

[Neil Darlow]

Hi,

On Thursday 21 Nov 2002 09:21, THOROLD GUY wrote:
> I have createed an ext3 partition and I have started to install Linux From
> Scratch (LFS).  When this partition is mounted I am unable to see its
> contents, but as soon as it is unmounted I am abke to see the contents of
> it and edit and install.  I am running mandrake 8.1.  Does anybody know
> what is going on?

May I ask the obvious question (not to insult your abilities) that you are 
using mount and umount to mount and unmount the partition respectively?

The only other thought that occurs to me is that you may have an automount 
feature or daemon active on your Mandrake system and it's confusing matters.

> Also when trying to install gcc 3.2 I get a message informing me that I
> don't have the required files to make the bootstrap, does anyone know how
> to solve this problem?

I'm not a LFS expert (having only briefly looked at Gentoo and Lunar-Linux) 
but building and installing gcc-3.2.x on those systems is quite a complicated 
process. I suspect you've missed a step in the procedure. This isn't uncommon 
because I've found these build-from-source distributions to be poorly 
documented. Gentoo seems to be the better of the bunch though.

Regards,
Neil Darlow M.Sc. -- Beds LUGmaster
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