On June 2, 2016 4:37:45 AM CDT, Richard Melville <[email protected]> wrote: >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
I see where he is coming from about a LiveCD. I have an entire basement (well... now, trailer to go to new house) full of machines of various ages, and at least half of them won't use USB drives to start off of. >-- >http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support >FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html >Unsubscribe: See the above information page Douglas R. Reno --LFS/BLFS systemd maintainer Sent from my cell phone. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
