On 1/15/2020 5:18 AM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote:
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.
Sorry, but I don't know what any of that means. Can you expand on it?
Alan
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