Hi Andrew,

Thanks for your advice, it came very helpful when trying to install util-linux, although e2fsprogs gave no problem to me, it went really fine

Well, now my brand-new LFS system is running (although with not any kind of GUI, just plain text, but hey... better that than nothing...

By the way, there's something i would like to comment to you and it's the following... when finished the system setup (damn 22 compilation hours) i had to use GRUB as the bootloader... and it's not bad, to tell the truth, although i would like to use syslinux, instead...

When I compile the kernel it automatically makes the core, the modules and the bzImage, but when I try to run make bzdisk, that makes use of mformat, syslinux and mcopy, it just doesn't find mtools

I downloaded mtools and syslinux, and when i compile mtools it places all the symlinks and the mtools binary in /usr/local/bin, but when i run the make bzdisk command it says the mcopy and mformat command is not found, although i've installed it, among syslinux, of course...

What must I do in order to have mtools installed correctly?

Thanks in advance (and of course for the previous advice),
Julio

Sorry but I've never used make bzdisk so I don't know anything about that and can't help you.

I had the problem that the /usr/local/bin dir is not in the PATH enviroment variable, add this to the PATH variable (like: #export PATH=$PATH:/usr/local/bin) and try again

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perhaps you could use a --prefix=/usr/bin when you do the configure on syslinux-source?

Now I assume a lot of stuff here for this to work.. first that syslinux has a ./configure, second that it supports --prefix

But if it does then you should be in luck and the binaries should be placed into /usr/bin instead.

However if you are happy with just adding to your $PATH then the above poster solved it for you!