On Sat, May 8, 2010 at 11:44 PM, Simon Geard <[email protected]> wrote:
> On Sat, 2010-05-08 at 09:42 +0100, Rodolfo Perez wrote:
>> Hey
>>
>> I successfully installed lfs 6.5 on a partition of my laptop. Now I
>> would like to go on with blfs. To make life easier I would prefer to run
>> my new lfs 6.5 on a virtual machine in my guest system (Mandriva 2009.1)
>> in order to be able to "google", copy and paste from the blfs-book,
>> using the mouse etc.
>> Is there any chance of doing so with virtualisation? Or do I have to
>> work in my new "plain" lfs 6.5?
>
> Sure, no reason why not - you just need to ensure that your LFS system
> can boot under both real and virtual hardware.
>
> That said, you could just use a chroot environment like the one used to
> build LFS in chapter 6. That's what I, and no doubt many others here do
> - it's effective, and much less effort than setting up a VM...
>
> Simon.
>
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I just tried LFS on a VM and it worked so i moved to BLFS and im now
tring to transfer now VM > tarball > phisical PC.
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