On 1/14/20 10:18 PM, Alan Feuerbacher via blfs-support wrote:
Now that I've got my shiny new LFS system up and running, and I've
installed a pile of BLFS software in chroot, but don't have X running,
I'd like some hints on streamlining the process of installing software
via Lynx.
Unfortunately, my hard drive that contained a lot of helpful hints
from when I last played with LFS 2 1/2 years ago went belly up a
couple of years ago, and I've forgotten many of the hints that were on
that drive. Here's what I remember:
In the Linux console I believe there is a way to switch between two or
more independent windows, so that you can have a program running in
each. This facilitates, say, looking at the BLFS book in Lynx in one
window, and installing the software in another. How do you switch
windows?
I know that on startup Linux records some log files, including what is
output to the console. Where can I find them?
A couple of days ago Bruce Dubbs gave me a link to some hints on
transitioning from LFS to BLSF. Good stuff!
Any other helpful hints?
Thanks in advance!
Alan
Use a package manager. Build packages in a clean chroot. I use the
kernel overlayfs to do that even when building the base system. It
protects the host from damage, when you are building and installing LFS
and BLFS. It also provides a mechanism to catch errors that you don't
know are happening.
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