I'll post this one more time; this time without the HTML formatting. Sorry about that.
Hi all, I'm new to this list and (somewhat) new to LFS. I've been reading the LFS book for years now, always meaning to "get to it someday." I finally decided that my skills had caught up to my ambitions. I decided to start my LFS build. There's a fellow on the LFS section of the Linuxquestions.org forum who keeps repeting the same answer to anyone who has a problem with a build: "use the live CD; only the live CD will work without problems." I looked at what it would take to remaster the live CD, but the hints are not particularly transparent. In contrast to the LFS book, the remastering hints only explain what steps to take, not what those steps mean, at least in my opinion as a newbie to remastering. So I simply downloaded the LFS 6.3 .iso and started running it on a blank disk image in a QEMU virtual machine. I got through chapter 5 without any problems and decided to start over with LFS version 6.6. To build version 6.6, I again started with a blank disk image and worked in a QEMU virtual machine, but this time I installed Slackware 13.1 with XFCE, but without KDE, to use as my host.So far, it's an ideal host and I've again made it through the end of chapter 5 without problems. I'm going to continue with chapter 6 tonight. FWIW, I'm also implementing the package users scheme with my build. I started to use it on the 6.3 build -- for the first couple packages in chapter 6 -- and it worked well. When I decided to start over with 6.6, I also decided to stay with the package user scheme. My conclusion is that the LiveCD is nice, but contrary to what's posted on the LQ board, it's not necessary. My _opinion_ as a new LFSer: What would be nice as a new LFS user is for the LFS live CD to have a good build host with something like XFCE, all of the packages and patches on the disk. X and XFCE are optional, of course. If the TTYs are accesible and links (or lynx) has a local copy of the book to read, and GPM is running (for cutting and pasting commands), then that's probably all that's necessary. I built the first part of version 6.3 in TTYs that way. Still, it's nice to work in X. My answers to the questionaire are below: Regards, -Drew Jul 27, 2010 12:01:03 PM, [email protected] wrote: Could we, and by this I mean you, Jeremy, post on the [,A,B,C]LFS-[support,dev] lists an e-mail similar to the following: > There is a small group of people trying to assess the viability of > resurrecting the LiveCD project. We would appreciate your input to > this process by answering the following questions. > > 1. Have you ever used an LFS LiveCD. Yes. > 2. Did you use it only for a build host? Yes. > 3. Did you use it to build something other than LFS No. > 4. Did you use it as a rescue disk? No. > 5. Did you obtain the iso image by having it build on your system? No. > 6. Did you obtain the image by downloading it directly? Yes. > 7. Did you use it for anything not listed in #2-#6? N/A -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
