Hmmm… I got a couple of new (to me at least) Linux dis­tros today on the cover of a magazine; Morphix 0.3.5 and
EnGarde Secure Linux Com­munity Edi­tion 2.0. I really need to get back to using Linux a little more often. Maybe I should give one of these a try. Morphix is a live CD so it should be a breeze to have a play! Time to give the serv­ers sat under my desk a kick!

Woo Hoo! The ker­nel finally com­piled! The last couple of times it failed, there weren’t any valid reas­ons. I’m now wor­ry­ing that the hard disk is fail­ing some­how.
Any­way. I shan’t be doing any more Linux From Scratch until after my Java exam.

More ker­nel com­pile prob­lems. This time I get the error
cp: reading 'tlan.o': Input/output error
But this time I can’t find any ref­er­ences on google.
The file exists in the ./drivers/net/ dir­ect­ory, and I can copy it by hand. Strange. Ah well, I’ll try set­ting the build off again, now I’ve copied it by hand.

Aha! prob­lem solved.
A quick google search on the error mes­sage led me to this patch.
Ker­nel com­pil­a­tion proceeds…

Oh dear, I still have this error try­ing to build the ker­nel.
tridentfb.c:254: #error "Floating point maths. This needs fixing before the driver is safe."
It’s a bit of a pain as I don’t have a tri­dent card. I guess I’ve got a mod­ule turned on that I don’t need. I’ll try to find it in the con­fig menu and turn it off.

Boo Hoo! The ker­nel didn’t com­pile!

Woo Hoo! I’ve finally fin­ished chapter 6! So far the only devi­ations from the book are as fol­lows:
1) I chose not to install reiserf­sprogs
2) I enabled MD5 pass­word encod­ing (from the shadow suite hints page).