My Linux Practice

Author: Heidi

  • Creating a file system on the partition

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    Section 2.5, creating a file system on the partition. According to Google AI Mode, I don’t need to create a file system on the LFS partition, because GParted is a partition editor and has already made the file system using the same tools (mkfs) that someone would use doing it manually.

  • Version Check

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    Finishing 2.2.2 Host system software. I typed in version_check.sh from the manual onto the command line. I had to correct three errors with nano. But the version check is OK! Yay!

  • Set required symlinks

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    Still on 2.2.2 Host System Software. Now I need to set the default system shell (/bin/sh) to bash, changing it from dash. It took me a while to establish that this is the system shell, not user shells. And there are two other required symlinks. /bin/sh should link to bash/usr/bin/awk should link to gawk/usr/bin/yacc should…

  • Software headers in separate packages

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    2.2.2 Host system software: “Also note that many distributions will place software headers into separate packages…. Be sure to install those if your distribution provides them.” I googled and then checked with AI Mode each of the essential programs, looking for software headers, -dev, and -devel. Here’s where AI Mode became useful in trying to…

  • Google AI Mode

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    Here’s where I started really using Google AI Mode in Chrome. Note – for this post I managed to learn the difference between Gemini, Google’s AI Overview, and Google’s AI Mode. Google search, such as it is, and Duck Duck Go search, such as that is, weren’t coming up with a lot of results that…

  • More essential programs for the host

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    Continuing 2.2.2 Host System Software. sudo apt update Played around with: sudo apt list –upgradablesudo apt upgradesudo apt autoremove –dry runsudo apt auto remove Now installed missing programs or possibly tried to reinstall two programs sudo apt updatesudo apt install bisonsudo apt install gawksudo apt install m4sudo apt install texinfosudo apt install findutils – I…

  • Finally making the partition

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    2.4 Creating a new partition GParted manual I read the entire manual and printed out the needed instructions. GParted Live USB 1. Shrunk sda2 to 182.82 GiB, approximately 195 GB. Note: GiBs are apparently not MiB x 1000 2. From 54.61 GiB unallocated space, created sda3 27.3 GiB 3. Left the rest unallocated, about 27.3…

  • Displaying GRUB at boot

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    Where the heck is GRUB? Why don’t I see GRUB? I have GRUB, obviously: grub-install –version grub-install (GRB) 2.12-1ubuntu7.3 https://askubuntu.com/questions/182248/why-is-grub-menu-not-shown-when-starting-my-computer Also get rid of annoying login I turned on automatic login in Settings | System | Users Set up GRUB to display indefinitely at boot sudo nano /etc/default/grub Change: GRUB_TIMEOUT_STYLE=menu [changed from =hidden]GRUB_TIMEOUT=-1 [changed from…

  • Exploring Ubuntu and GParted

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    Updating Last month I updated the Numbat, explored snaps, and updated the snaps. Today I updated the debs and snaps. Boot with GParted Live USB Should see GUI In GUI:To select a device go to GParted | Devices menu option and select a deviceor from drop-down menu at upper leftLook at: text list details, device…

  • Bought GParted manual

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    I bought the GParted manual, “Manage Partitions with GParted How-to” from PacktPub, $6.98. Happy new year and on with LFS 12.3!