I'm trying to use jhalfs for the first time. I'm using the LFS Live CD as my host system.

After configuring the menu I type 'make' and the first few lines seem OK. then I get the lines:

cp: writing './automake-1.10.tar.bz2': No space left on device

<jhalfs 2.3.1> exit
make: *** [all] Error 1

Now my partition is 90Gb and the swap partition is over 4Gb - how much more space does it need?

Obviously there is something fundamental I am not understanding yet so if any kind soul could point a way forward I'd be most grateful.

while in the Live CD environment but you will need a partition to install them onto
so cd to the 90 GB partition, and install from there

Many thanks repo for your reply. I'm still not quite sure but this is what I'm doing:

Make a directory /mnt/build_dir
mount my file system partition on it
make a directory /mnt/sources
copy all the LFS source tarballs into it from the live CD
cd into /home/jhalfs/lhalfs-2.3.1
then install jhalfs with make config

In the config menu I tell it where to find both these directories.

So am I doing something wrong - or is there something I haven't yet done?

Are you saying that jhalfs is trying to write to /home/jhalfs/jhalfs-2.3.1 which is on the CD - so I need to copy those directories onto the hard drive partition as well, then cd into it there?

Any help would be much appreciated.

I think I see your problem, and it explains why you initially had the earlier issue with it trying to download the book despite it being available on the CD, which I had actually been wondering about. The default jhalfs configuration that comes with the LiveCD is already set to use the "Working Copy" of the book in /usr/share/LFS-BOOK-6.3-XML and to use the packages available in /lfs-sources, but you seem to be following the instructions in the Automated LFS using jhalfs-2.3.1 thread. Those instructions are, for the most part, unnecessary when doing a standard LFS build from the LiveCD and seem to be more geared towards using jhalfs with a pre-existing distro as host.

If I were you, I would reformat the partition you want to use, just to make sure you're starting fresh; then, after booting from the LiveCD and activating the swap partition, making /mnt/build_dir and mounting your partition there, issue the following commands:

You shouldn't need to change anything in the menu, with the possible exception of your timezone and default page size: under "Build Settings" change the TimeZone field from "GMT" to "$TZ" (to match the timezone you chose on booting the LiveCD) and change "Groff page size" to A4 (since you're in the UK). After that, just Exit, save the configuration, and away it goes. It will copy the packages & patches from /lfs-sources into /mnt/build_dir/sources, so there's no need for you to make a sources directory yourself or do any manual copying. (That actually may have been your main problem, by the way, with running out of space: the directory you made, "/mnt/sources", wasn't on the partition but rather in RAM; "/mnt/build_dir/sources" *would* be on the partition, and as I mentioned jhalfs takes care of creating that.)

Many thanks once again Mystican for your excellent help. Yes I think I understand what is going wrong now so I'll go off and give it a go. I'll report back here in case it helps anybody else who has the same question.

I'm most grateful again for your time.

Just to say that I have now succeeded with jhalfs using the advice given in this thread. On my setup it took about 3.5 hours which is a great improvement on the manual method.

I'd like to thank once again Mystican and repo for their valuable help and advice, without which I probably would have given up by now! I hope this thread helps and encourages others who use the LFS Live CD.