> LFS progress #3 (the last one, i promise...) Hey, I say keep 'em coming. I've been getting a lot out of your reports. LFS sounds really cool. Time well spent.
> once i've actually created the boot cd (help would definitely be > appreciated!) You might check out the Mondo project: http://www.microwerks.net/~hugo/ It's a CD based disaster-recovery suite. The doc covers some of the details of making a bootable CD. On Monday 17 December 2001 10:19, Justin Bengtson wrote: > LFS is the best thing in computers that ever happened to me. no i am > not joking. > > a list of what i have installed and what i have successfully run so > far : > > dhcpcd > openssh > openssl > lynx (with ssl support) > mpg123 (on my new sb live. awesome.) > setmixer (a little gem i found on the debian site.) > cd writing tools (cdrdao, cdrecord, i can't remember all the > programs...) > > a list of what i plan to install to complete the base system > > pmail > cron (or a like scheduler) > mutt > lftp (or another ftp client) > > once the base system is complete and running, it's time to compile a > generic kernel and tar up the filesystem. with all the sources > included, it comes to just under 500mb. which leaves 140mb for a > boot image on the cd. i'm getting pretty close to a distro here... > once i've actually created the boot cd (help would definitely be > appreciated!), i plan to migrate totally to an LFS system, which i > will organize thusly : > > 20gb WD0200 hda > hda1 / 18gb > hda2 /boot 50mb > hda3 /var 1450mb (fits nicely...) > hda4 swap 500mb > 40gb WD0400 hdb > hdb1 /home 30gb > hdb2 /mdevel 10gb > > mdevel will be a partition used for keeping the LFS image up to date, > testing, test installing, creating an ISO image of the distro, > whatnot. i am going against the FHS by putting mdevel in /, but it > just seems more logical to me considering it's importance. > > nothing will be done with X until i have a new video card, but i plan > on downloading the source for X and Gnome before creating the ISO (so > that they are included...) anyway, that's it, thanks for your ears > folks (i promise to give them back...)
