source: BOOK/boot/common/createfiles.xml@ c84d855

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Last change on this file since c84d855 was 0060a51, checked in by William Harrington <kb0iic@…>, 11 years ago

Add description and command to link /proc/self/mounts to /etc/mtab for boot section and /etc/mtab for chroot section of createfiles.

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1<?xml version="1.0" encoding="ISO-8859-1"?>
2<!DOCTYPE sect1 PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DocBook XML V4.5//EN"
3 "http://www.oasis-open.org/docbook/xml/4.5/docbookx.dtd" [
4 <!ENTITY % general-entities SYSTEM "../../general.ent">
5 %general-entities;
6]>
7
8<sect1 id="ch-boot-createfiles">
9 <?dbhtml filename="createfiles.html"?>
10
11 <title>Creating Essential Symlinks</title>
12
13 <para os="a">Some programs use hard-wired paths to programs which do not exist
14 yet. In order to satisfy these programs, create a number of symbolic
15 links which will be replaced by real files throughout the course of
16 the next chapter after the software has been installed.</para>
17
18<screen><userinput>ln -sv /tools/bin/{bash,cat,echo,grep,login,passwd,pwd,sleep,stty} ${CLFS}/bin
19ln -sv /tools/sbin/{agetty,blkid} ${CLFS}/sbin
20ln -sv /tools/bin/file ${CLFS}/usr/bin
21ln -sv /tools/lib/libgcc_s.so{,.1} ${CLFS}/usr/lib
22ln -sv /tools/lib/libstdc++.so{.6,} ${CLFS}/usr/lib
23sed -e 's/tools/usr/' /tools/lib/libstdc++.la > ${CLFS}/usr/lib/libstdc++.la
24ln -sv bash ${CLFS}/bin/sh
25ln -sv /run ${CLFS}/var/run</userinput></screen>
26
27 <para os="c">Historically, Linux maintains a list of the mounted file systems
28 in the file <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>. Modern kernels maintain this list
29 internally and exposes it to the user via the
30 <filename class="directory">/proc</filename> filesystem. To satisfy utilities
31 that expect the presence of <filename>/etc/mtab</filename>, create the
32 following symbolic link:</para>
33
34<screen os="d"><userinput>ln -sv /proc/self/mounts ${CLFS}/etc/mtab</userinput></screen>
35
36</sect1>
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