hi
well i was trying to install binutils in the first pass.....everything went well
until the actual install into the tools directory......
i donot know what i screwed up....i followed every thing to the upmost care.....
i have a 2.4.22-1.15 fedora core 1 system.......but the LFS -6.0 documentation tells me that
the system should be comiled with a 2.6.2 kernel with a ht machine........is that the problemm.......
i am posting the details of the output here..



make install...
blah blah blah....
...
...
.
cd ../../../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/gas/doc && \
$restore $backupdir/* `echo "./../../../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/gas/doc/as.info" | sed 's|[^/]*$||'`; \
fi; \
rm -rf $backupdir; \
exit $rc
mkdir: cannot create directory `.am2372': Permission denied
../../../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/gas/doc/as.info: Permission denied
make[3]: *** [../../../binutils-2.15.91.0.2/gas/doc/as.info] Error 2
make[3]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/gas/doc'
make[2]: *** [install-am] Error 2
make[2]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/gas/doc'
make[1]: *** [install-recursive] Error 1
make[1]: Leaving directory `/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build/gas'
make: *** [install-gas] Error 2
lfs:/mnt/lfs/sources/binutils-build$

culd somone plz tellme whr i m going wrong..

did you make the symlink to a dir /tools on the host and change the ownership to whichever user you are using to build the system?

as far as the 2.6 kernel, when I did lfs 6 i used a 2.4.28 kernel on the host but I also modified lfs because I wanted a 2.4 kernel on that too. It gives a reason on the requirement for a 2.6 kernel on the host ( IIRC mounting the psuedo directories for 2.4 and 2.6 is different) so it depends on what you want to use on the host ( I'm sure there is a way you can do it with 2.4 though.

yes i did create a symlink named 'tools' in the / directory...

and sure you configured it with --prefix=/tools
you didn't by chance do any of this as root did you?