New installation

Mystified · 03-29-2005, 02:03 PM

Since I kept having so many problems with my installation I decided to start over again. Now I'm having a new problem. I can't make install as user lfs. I have to do it as root which I dont want to do. The permissions on the directory haven't changed since my last install. Any ideas?

XavierP · 03-29-2005, 04:12 PM

Make install is always carried out as root:

Code:

$ ./configure
$ make
$ su
password
# make install

This is because root has full access to all directories and the user doesn't. Have you checked into "sudo"? Read "man sudo" to find out more.

Mystified · 03-30-2005, 05:27 PM

Actually in lfs it's not carried out as root. You don't su to root until you enter the chroot environment. I have already gone thru one installation of lfs and had problems which is why I'm reinstalling. I realize I could go ahead and make install as root but I refuse to do anything as root in my host system (gentoo). Hence my problem.

Thanks anyway tho.

taxtropel · 03-30-2005, 09:54 PM

that's just silly

just don't hang out as root

do your day to day tasks as a regular user, but then you log in as root to do sys-maint stuff. that's the way it was meant to work.

if you are too afraid to use root, then you really don't have any busniess trying an LFS build. you need to understand the Prerequisites

I don't mean to sound harsh but that is the reality of the situation, LFS is no place for sissies and newbies

rcxau · 04-01-2005, 08:04 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by taxtropel
that's just silly

just don't hang out as root

do your day to day tasks as a regular user, but then you log in as root to do sys-maint stuff. that's the way it was meant to work.

if you are too afraid to use root, then you really don't have any busniess trying an LFS build. you need to understand the Prerequisites

I don't mean to sound harsh but that is the reality of the situation, LFS is no place for sissies and newbies

Actually for the start of an lfs, building the initial toolchain, you are not required to do it as root. thats the way it was meant to work.

if you dont realise this taxtrope, then you really dont have any business commenting on a LFS build, you need to read the book again

I dont meant to sound harsh, but thats the reality of the situation.

Dont call someone a sissy or newbie, when you dont even understand the problem at hand. you're the one looking like a newbie here.

mystified did however realise that root isnt meant to be required here, which is a great thng,

mystified: have you tried changing permissions on all the directories?

Try to "chmod 777 /tools" and the directories where you have your source tarballs and extracted source. it might be a permissions problem.

Good luck, enjoy LFS

rcxau

shotokan · 04-02-2005, 01:36 AM

I don't think you are supposed to be able to not start completely over in the LFS install.( You could probably do it with out partitioning, and giving it a filesystem anymore.)

I am kinda sure you have to mount the partion, and every thing beyond that point, again.

Yerp · 04-04-2005, 11:17 AM

You said that you are restarting your lfs install.

Did you remember to delete the lfs user on the host system that you created during the original install?

Code:

userdel lfs

You might also want to remove that user's directory, which is normally /home/lfs

if you ever need to change who owns the files, make sure to run as root (or that files owner..) with one of the following commands:

Code:

chown -R root:root /some/directory

or (depending on who you wish it to change it to..)

Code:

chown -R lfs:users /some/directory