Craig Jackson wrote: > Otherwise, I use > console due to the extreme performance hit of X when run from the > LiveCD. (Not sure why this is). >
This is known to happen on machines with insufficient amount of RAM due to VM bug in the kernel, because it doesn't like the fact that our dm-snapshot device is backed by a loop device on a sparse file on tmpfs (it fruitlessly loops and tries to free some memory by flushing dirty buffers, try "echo 2 > /proc/sys/vm/overcommit_memory" and see an oops). Try adding swap to work around this. Or, if this guess is wrong (i.e., you have 512 MB of RAM or more), try booting the SVN version of the LiveCD as "linux toram" (if you have only 512 MB of RAM, you'll have to add swap, though). >> 4) What is the most annoying or useless bits of the CD? >> > > IPRoute. net-tools were added in the SVN version of the LiveCD. > I can hack the init scripts a bit to get it to work, but its > command line parameters are not very intuitive. This was my least > favorite upgrade from 5.x. I do understand the need for the update. > (IPv6 support). > LFS doesn't support IPv6, so the move to iproute2 is unjustified from this viewpoint. I will take back this opinion as soon as LFS bootscripts start supporting IPv6. >> 5) What would you change/add/improve? >> > > I would love a simple installer that copies the contents of the livecd > to a "safe OS" partition, from which to build LFS or CLFS or whatever. > Sorry, the information how to do this was available before, and is still available via private e-mail. However, due to dummies asking stupid BLFS support questions on IRC without completing LFS, I provide this information only on the condition that you unsubscribe from the support lists and agree to be banned on IRC. The SVN CD includes a compromise: you can put the ISO as a file onto a partition and use this file for booting - but you can't save anything across a reboot (i.e., the same limitation as if you booted from a CD). -- Alexander E. Patrakov -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
