I think I'm reading to try LFS, which I tried once before but gave up. Anyhow, when I did try, it was times that I followed the book instructions and some commands didn't work.

An example:

cd $LFS &&
mkdir -p bin boot dev/pts etc/opt home lib mnt proc root sbin tmp var opt &&
for dirname in $LFS/usr $LFS/usr/local
do
mkdir $dirname
cd $dirname
mkdir bin etc include lib sbin share src
ln -s share/man
ln -s share/doc
ln -s share/info
cd $dirname/share
mkdir dict doc info locale man nls misc terminfo zoneinfo
cd $dirname/share/man
mkdir man{1,2,3,4,5,6,7,8}
done &&
cd $LFS/var &&
mkdir -p lock log mail run spool tmp opt cache lib/misc local &&
cd $LFS/opt &&
mkdir bin doc include info lib man &&
cd $LFS/usr &&
ln -s ../var/tmp

I think the above commands was a problem for me. Now how do I type this? I'm sure its not all on one line, but I think some of them should be one line and some not!

Thnx.

maybe posting the problem and/or error messages you received will clarify things a bit...

im taking a guess here:

all of the commands listed are on their own line. type them in exactly as you see them(replacing the values with $´s in front of them (except for &dirname in the for loop) with their real values) and you should be set.

Thnx for the reply...I'll have to give it a try I start. And if I do run into errors, I'll post them. I won't start on this project till the weekend.

everything preceding the error gets done, so it is nice to know where it went wrong. from that point, you can check the line that wasn't working by running only that line's worth of commands (without the && at the end) you probably just have a typo or something.
if you run out of space on the screen there should be a \ at the end and the next line will be read as part of the origonal line.
if nothing works, copy from book & past into a file. run source file

Type it just like you see it. When there's a newline, put a newline. BASH takes care of the rest. It's knows that something must follow && so if that's at the end of a line, it will prompt you for more. Likewise with the for loop.