Now that a file system has been created, the partition needs to be made accessible. In order to do this, the partition needs to be mounted at a chosen mount point.
As the root user, ensure the
CLFS variable is set, if you haven't
already:
export CLFS=/mnt/clfs
Next, create the mount point and mount the CLFS file system by
running the following commands as root:
mkdir -pv ${CLFS}
mount -v /dev/[xxx] ${CLFS}
Replace [xxx] with the
designation of the CLFS partition.
If using multiple partitions for CLFS (e.g., one for / and another for /usr), mount them as root using:
mkdir -pv ${CLFS}
mount -v /dev/[xxx] ${CLFS}
mkdir -v ${CLFS}/usr
mount -v /dev/[yyy] ${CLFS}/usr
Replace [xxx] and
[yyy] with the appropriate
partition names.
Ensure that this new partition is not mounted with permissions that
are too restrictive (such as the nosuid,
nodev, or noatime options). Run mount | grep ${CLFS} to see what
options are set for the mounted CLFS partition. If nosuid, nodev, and/or
noatime are set, the partition will need
to be remounted.
Now that there is an established place to work, it is time to download the packages.