My 2 cents is going to have to go towards keeping the LiveCD. I find it very useful to use for building LFS on target systems that don't already have a Linux distro installed. Several have suggested that a liveCD from a different distro could be used but I suspect finding one with all of the development tools needed may be more difficult than expected. This is because most other liveCD are intended to provide all of the software needed so they can be used as is for internet, etc. These other liveCD are packed with browsers, word processing software, and the like rather than development tools.
The biggest advantage to the liveCD is the fact that it does what it was intended to do. It provides the set of tools needed and eliminates the need to have a version of linux installed on the target. I've been using linux since the early 90's and know my way around it pretty well. But, building the whole works from source had always eluded me just because I didn't have the time to spend to go figure it out. Then I ran across LFS and, unfortunately when I made my first attempt to follow the book I did so using an Ubuntu distro and ran into lots of problems but did get things working. Finally, I tried the liveCD and have been in love with it ever since. So, bottom line, if there is some way to keep it around, I'd vote for doing so. Mike -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
