Dear Sirs, Firstly my situation. I am a University student attempting as my final year dissertation to create a LFS distribution designed for other students at my university ie; educational software etc.
My issue: I want to be able to create a distribution as a series of CD's much like the mainstreams distro's like Fedora with 5 CD's. The reason is I want my LFS distro to be installed on multiple machines. I have no issue with porting as my university machines are mainly x86 Intel architecture so I have not yet found the need to do any cross compiling (though I would if if provides a solution). What I know: I have created several LFS partitions, amd am currently working through selected sections of BLFS to create my desired LFS. In my mind the picture I have is that if I can create a basic bootable LFS CD using the hint, perhaps if I also try and slip an aditional folder containing some of my 'Desired LFS' although I would think not all would fit so thats why I would at least need a second CD containing the rest. I would then use the Basic LFS to initiate the copying and configuration of the 'Desired LFS' to a selected partition I wish to install to. The task of copying and configuring I get a little foggy. I would assume that this is done on a fancy installer like 'Anaconda'. However, I wish to create a setup program myself. Would this be possible using a bash script or would I need to use something higher level like C++? In Sumary: I have a bootable CD containing a 'Basic LFS' & part of a 'Desired LFS' for installation. I wish to initiate the installation of the 'Desired LFS' using the terminal of the 'Basic LFS' I want to to create a program that will accept a user input (Selecting a destination drive/partition), update /etc/fstab based on the option. FYI I do not want any fancy options to select optional software, this is going to be standard for my university and what is on the distro is what the students get. I just want to create a simple setup program which will copy the nessacery files. The tricky bit is after I am done with one CD, How can I get the program to prompt the user to enter the next CD? Why have I posted this on a mailing list? Please can anyone provide me any reference material/links as I have managed to find no hints on the LFS website (or a google search) regarding mainly setup programs. Also if anyone has attempted this please share with me what pitfalls and blunders you came across Thanks in advance Best Regards Kevin P Annies _________________________________________________________________ Be one of the first to try Windows Live Mail. http://ideas.live.com/programpage.aspx?versionId=5d21c51a-b161-4314-9b0e-4911fb2b2e6d-- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
