I've been working with *nix since the early 80's and have been using linux since the early 90's. It's only been during the past 5 years or so that I have been using linux exclusively. I've always been curious as to what it takes to create a linux system from the sources and never really had the time to devote to figuring out all of the steps needed. I just wanted to give a quick thanks to the developers of LFS because not only did it answer all of my questions about how to do it, actual step by step instructions were included.
I went through the LFS book manually the first time and even though the process was slow, the entire thing worked and, better yet, the end product worked. Next I decided to give jhalfs a try and lo and behold, other than a couple of weird problems that occurred as a result of oddities with the host system I chose, it too worked and the result was a working system. I've spent the last couple of days trying out the LiveCD/jhalfs method, and, like all of the other methods, it just worked. I now feel I have a very good understanding of the whole process of putting together a complete linux system from sources. I just wanted to thank the devs for all of the work they do and the quality of the work. I think one of the things that makes LFS so nice is inclusion of configuration files/info needed to make some of the software packages work. For the most part, getting the build configuration and actual build to work is fairly easy. It's actually getting the software configuration stuff to make the software work that's usually the PITA. Thanks for including that stuff, it sure is a time saver. Oh, BTW, the system I'm putting together is a basic HTTP server with firewalling, etc.. Just to give you an idea, the "normal" distro I use on that is "Ubuntu". The time from pressing the power button to when I get a login prompt using Ubuntu is ~2:45, with LFS, that time drops to ~20 seconds on the exact same piece of hardware. Bravo guys. Keep up the good work. It's appreciated. I did install some of the stuff from BLFS that I needed (apache, iptables, etc.). The only thing I had to get my self and figure out how to configure and compile was NET-SNMP. That would probably be the only thing I might suggest adding to the BLFS stuff. Mike -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
