On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 21:45:05 -0400, Joshua Murphy <[email protected]> wrote: > On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Raed Abu-Sanad<[email protected]> wrote: >> >> hi,, >> >> i have started reading the LFS book. The very fist steps are to create > partition (hd5), swap partition and filesystem. >> I want to use the a USB to develop LFS. is it ok?? if yes, do i have to > create a swap partition? > > Off the top of my head, I don't know what complications building on > USB might give... but swap isn't necessary so long as you have enough > RAM to support the build. Been a while since I had time for a full > build as well so I'm not sure what amount of RAM is needed either.
The only issue I can think of is the number of write cycles that a full LFS build will incur, which may wear the USB drive out (assuming it's a pen drive style, not just a hard drive in a USB enclosure). The build will obviously be slow relative to building on a IDE/SATA/SCSI drive due to the slower seek/write times on USB drives. Regards, Matt. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
