I've done an LFS system, in fact I use it every day. It took a lot longer to work out the problems that I expected. Most of the problems were my own typos and text conversion problems. The trickiest problem I ran into were the boot scripts. I tried using the w3m web browser to convert the boot scripts that were part of the LFS documentation (HTML) into plain text that would run as scripts. w3m messed up the conversion and added some funny 8-bit invisible characters to the scripts. For the longest time I couldn't figure out why the scripts would just bail out with errors without running a single command. The w3m that I used was part of Debian potato. The newer w3m doesn't seem to have that problem. At the time I could only find the scripts as part of the documentation. But you may be able to find the scripts available on the LFS web site.
Anyway, I followed the LFS instructions pretty closely, except that I used newer source tarballs than they listed. In a few cases the custom patches that were recommended by LFS weren't need anymore because they had fixed the problems in the newer release. I think there might have been a few cases that the sources didn't compile quite right. Unfortunately I didn't save my own patches. I think they were minor syntactical errors. If in doubt, try going back to a source package LFS recommends. If you have the time, I highly recommend doing LFS. It gave me a lot more confidence with Linux. By the way, leave yourself plenty of room. I gave myself 1Gig, but I really should have had at least 2 Gig. It was big enough to install everything if I removed the compilation directories after installing each package. But since then I've downloaded a lot more tarballs than needed for the default installation. And the default installation just gets you the command line, no graphics. On Tue, 11 Dec 2001, larry a price wrote: > I've been playing with bootable business cards, and there is a script that > allows you to create a bootable cd from _any_ linux distro > it's called Bernhard's Bootable Linux CD and it's available from > http://www.bablokb.de/bblcd/ > I haven't played with it yet, mostly because I don't have ready access to > a burner, but it sounds sort of like what you are looking for. > Myself I'm interested in having a CD that's got My workspace and toolset > on it to the point where I can walk up to any recent model workstation, > drop a CD in, run a few scripts to get on the network, and go to work. > I have been running a live filesystem on fairly fast machine at efn, > (fast enough that Mozilla is not too painful) and have been learning > a fair bit about the in's and out's of running a fast but diskless > workstation, next step is gonna be some form of networked file system. > And a decent emacs on the CD ;-) > http://www.efn.org/~laprice ( Community, Cooperation, Consensus > http://www.opn.org ( Openness to serendipity, make mistakes > http://www.efn.org/~laprice/poems ( but learn from them.(carpe fructus ludi) > http://allie.office.efn.org/phpwiki/index.php?OregonPublicNetworking > On Wed, 12 Dec 2001, Bob Crandell wrote: > > After watching this thread for awhile, it finally occured to me that I'm trying to > > do this same thing with Gnome. Make an install disk using source code all > tarred > > up and scripted. Has anyone else been there, done that? > > > > Justin Bengtson ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote: > > > > > >> -----Original Message----- > > >> From: Jacob Meuser [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > > >> Sent: Tuesday, December 11, 2001 3:18 AM > > >> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > >> Subject: [EUG-LUG:508] Re: naive distro questions > > > > > ><snippety> > > > > > >> one can always add cruft later ;) Or, one could just tar up > > >> a whole customized system, with whatever additions and deletions > > >> suit one's fancy and call it site30.tgz (assuming kernel version 3.0) > > >> and the install script on the OpenBSD install disk will install > > >> (simply untar) that instead. You can also add an executable called > > >> "install.site" in / of the site30 tarball which will be run after > > >> the standard install script - system clonig the easy way. > > > > > >is there a way to do this with linux? i was thinking that once i get LFS up > > >and running, i can just tar the whole damn thing up and send it to a cd. > > >then i just need a boot disk able to run tar. when and if my system gets > > >too loaded with crap, i can just wipe and un-tar the site file. this may > > >get more complicated than i thought, but it sounds really nice. maybe > > >program a small perl installer for it... > > > > > >is there anything else involved besides the tarball, tar, tools to create > > >partitions and file systems and a boot disk? > > > > > > > > > >
