Alexander E. Patrakov wrote: > AFAIK, ALFS is not an active project (9 mails to the list and 0 SVN commits > since January, 1st). So it would be better to say something like "a scripted > build" (meaning user-written scripts) instead of "ALFS",
Yes, that is a good idea. > and proide some > concrete specs of a "reasonably fast system". Well I could use my system as an example. Under vmware running from the LiveCD: model name : Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 CPU 3.20GHz Filesystem Size Used Avail Use% Mounted on /dev/sda3 3.4G 1.3G 2.0G 41% / /dev/sda1 99M 13M 81M 14% /boot shm 379M 0 379M 0% /dev/shm Memory info: total used free shared buffers cached Mem: 775184 191924 583260 0 56528 11580 -/+ buffers/cache: 123816 651368 Swap: 498004 0 498004 The SBU unit value is equal to 339 seconds. 41.2 SBU total 41.2 SBUs times 339 seconds per SBU 13966.8 seconds = 232.78 minutes = 3.88 hours It is about half that time when native and not accessing source from the CDROM. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page