On 2 June 2016 at 00:37, Jamenson Ferreira Espindula de Almeida Melo <[email protected]> wrote:
> I wish to build a LiveCD from a fresh Linux From Scratch (LFS) 7.9 > installation. Several considerations leads to that decision, like > having a rescue disk updated. Have you considered a USB flash drive rather than a CD/DVD? The advantages are: much greater capacity, faster, smaller physical size, relatively cheap, no additional drive required, and far less clunky. CD/DVD technology is now pretty ancient in the fast-moving IT world. My solution was to add a "rescue" BLFS version to a separate partition on the USB flash drive from which I boot. So, on a 16GB bootable device I have three GPT partitions: 100MB for boot (Syslinux), 9GB for swap and the remainder for the rescue OS. From the boot menu I can select the main BLFS system (the default setting on a pair of Btrfs formatted SSDs) or the rescue system on the flash drive. This works well for me, and I can use the same arrangement on each box. If the flash drive fails I have another clone standing by. Of course, you may have chosen your method for educational purposes, or for another reason, in which case ignore all the above. Richard -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
