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I was back to attend an old friend’s wedding in Ipoh, and was the photographer for both the bride’s side of dinner and the matrimony session in the church.

Langkawi - Jewel of Kedah

Pantai Cenang (Cenang Beach ) @ Langkawi Island

Since this trip is partly a teambuilding event, there were activities to be completed. Thanks to both of our managers, whom has organized the Geo-Caching that leads us to different part of the island and accomplish tasks given in a total of 5 teams. Photos shown are the places that’s involved during the Geo-Caching.

Boy running on the beach @ Tanjung Rhu

Temurun Falls @ Langkawi Island

Temurun Falls @ Langkawi Island

Wandering cat nearby Skull Beach (Pantai Tengkorak) @ Langkawi

On top of the Geo-Caching, beach volley is a must at such a nice place.

Beach volleyball

On the last day, we’ve been to another famous attraction in Langkawi – The Seven Wells.

Seven Wells Falls (Telaga Tujuh) @ Langkawi

Seven Wells Falls (Telaga Tujuh) @ Langkawi

Stones and Water @ Seven Well Falls

Thailand National Flag

Taken quite a number of photos during the trip, in various places, including Grand Palace, Wat Phra Kaew, Wat Arun…etc. we went for the Chao Phraya River Cruise as well, and taken some photos from the boat.  Some photos are attached as follows.

In the Grand Palace and Wat Phra Kaew

Wat Phra Kaew

Dusit Maha Prasat Hall

Miniature Angkor Wat

Phra Borom Maha Ratchawang

In the Temple of the Dawn, Wat Arun.

Wat Arun in silhouette

Temple building within the Wat Arun

Main Prang in Wat Arun

Off we go~~~

During the Chao Phraya R iver Cruise

Wat Arunratchawararam

I LOVE U

Hotel along Chao Phraya

Great Temple

Guan Di Temple - 关帝庙

Floods at the riverside of Chao Phraya

Photowalk in Bangkok

On the go...

Auspicious and Luck - 吉祥如意

For more photos, feel free to drop by my Flickr.

Koi Fish @ Kek Lok Si

Some photos at Khoo Kongsi

Traditional Chinese Rounded Window

Hand-crafted Wooden Panel

Khoo Kongsi @ HDR

After Khoo Kongsi, we went for lunch and then to Penang Peranakan Mansion.

Traditional Peranakan Living Hall

Traditional Peranakan Bedroom Setup

Western influence @ Peranakan Mansion

Traditional Card Game - Cherki

Traditional Chinese Wooden Door

Full set of photos taken during that day is available at Flickr.

In virtualized environment, this is far more easier. Run the VirtualBox Manager and add another virtual harddisk to it before we booted up the Fedora 13 / any other host that you prefer.

Added another new disk under the SATA Controller with 5GB of size, calling it LFS.vdi. Boot up the VM and configure our partition for the build.

Create partition as usual, I use the whole 5GB space for the LFS, without any swap or different partition. Once partition is done, format it with new file system. I used ext3

mke2fs -jv /dev/sdb1

When view with the Disk Utility provided by Fedora itself, the whole 5.4GB has been utilized as a single partition with ext3 file system. This will be the LFS build environment.

After the partition and file system setup, we need to mount it to be useable.

export LFS=/mnt/lfs

mkdir -pv $LFS

mount -v -t ext3 /dev/sdb1 $LFS

First thing, fire up ur Fedora 13.

From the page, they provide you a bash script to dump all the versions and checking on the availability of a particular module. *the rights of the script belongs to LFS (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org)

cat > version-check.sh << "EOF"#!/bin/bashexport LC_ALL=C

# Simple script to list version numbers of critical development tools

bash --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f2-4echo "/bin/sh -> `readlink -f /bin/sh`"echo -n "Binutils: "; ld --version | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f3-bison --version | head -n1if [ -e /usr/bin/yacc ];  then echo "/usr/bin/yacc -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/yacc`";   else echo "yacc not found"; fibzip2 --version 2>&1 < /dev/null | head -n1 | cut -d" " -f1,6-echo -n "Coreutils: "; chown --version | head -n1 | cut -d")" -f2diff --version | head -n1find --version | head -n1gawk --version | head -n1if [ -e /usr/bin/awk ];  then echo "/usr/bin/awk -> `readlink -f /usr/bin/awk`";   else echo "awk not found"; figcc --version | head -n1/lib/libc.so.6 | head -n1 | cut -d"," -f1grep --version | head -n1gzip --version | head -n1cat /proc/versionm4 --version | head -n1make --version | head -n1patch --version | head -n1echo Perl `perl -V:version`sed --version | head -n1tar --version | head -n1echo "Texinfo: `makeinfo --version | head -n1`"echo 'main(){}' > dummy.c && gcc -o dummy dummy.cif [ -x dummy ]; then echo "Compilation OK";  else echo "Compilation failed"; firm -f dummy.c dummy

EOF

bash version-check.sh

Below is the compilation of the result, and any actions I need to make sure the host environment is capable to compile LFS.

All modules that are available is either has higher versioning or comparatively same. But, a few modules is not installed.

First thing i installed was the bison, which is a GNU general-parser generator, especially useful for C development, which we need for LFS compilation.

I was using the Add/Remove Software for the installation by searching it and apply the package to my OS. I continue all this for other packages, and all manage to get the required versions easily, except gcc which has version 4.4.4 only.

Besides, to install gcc, you will be asked for more packages to be installed, as shown in the screen capture.

After all the hassle , i’ve rerun the shell script again, and this time no missing modules. Except, the gcc library is in version 4.4.4 instead of 4.4.3 as requested. Let’s try it out and see what happens.

   1: su

   2: Password: <ur_root_password>

   3: chmod +w /etc/sudoers

   4: echo 'raymond (ALL)=ALL ALL' >> /etc/sudoers

   5: chmod -w /etc/sudoers

   6: exit

What it does is to add ur account to the sudoers file by making it writable through ur root account (su = superuser).

I jumped straight to where Fedora 13 has been successfully installed from the LiveCD.

First boot after installation from LiveCD.

Logging in with my credentials

Default desktop settings, running at 800×600. To get other higher resolutions, you need to install the LinuxAdditions Package from VirtualBox

Mount the LinuxAdditions from Devices Menu on the VirtualBox

Run the Terminal

Navigate to the media, and install using the command sudo sh ./VBoxLinuxAdditions-x86.run

This is running in 1024 x 768.