As mentioned in the book we need to install the packages as lfs user, but when I try to install it shows error permission denied (first unzip bunzip2 -dv,and then extracting tar -xvf file.tar). Even though i made lfs owner (using chown -v lfs $LFS/sources).

Is it that one needs to apply patches before extraction? If so please help me how?

Thus, i extracted the binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2 and installed it in root. When i do following
root@ubntu:/sources# tree
I can see the directory expanded of instaled binutils-2.21.1a.tar.bz2.
But
lfs@ubntu:/sources$ tree
It shows error opening directory next to binutils-2.21.1, though I can see all the packages in tree.
As the situation says I may not have authority to handle /sources directory. But, the command chown -v lfs $LFS/sources made lfs as the owner of directory.
So how should i install the downloaded packages?

Hi

You dont install anything as root in chapter 5, it is done as user lfs.
When you down load if you are user lfs then the permissions will be yours(lfs)
You can check the permissions of the files in sources to see who owns them.

The sources dir should be lfs:root.

Hi,
My Linux info:
Distribution: Ubntu.
Installation: Installed in windows OS, using wubi installer.

Is the partition we created for LFS needs to store and install the downloaded packages? Or the root, both are in two different partition in my case. My case LFS partition is 10 GB, ext3, partition.


Thanks.

Hi You created a partition for lfs. You then mout it at $LFS. which is HOST /mnt/lfs You then create dir sources to store packages and build lfs. Sources is host/mnt/lfs/sources.

Hi

So you made 2 partitions sda"y" and sda"x" you would of mounted sda"y" as and mounted sda"x" as The sources dir would be built on LFS