On 2/6/2019 7:11 PM, Ken Moffat via lfs-dev wrote: > > no existing mounts in /mnt Actually, there is a reason that /mnt hasn't been populated for a long time now. In FHS 2.2, IIRC, possibly earlier (I was unable to find 2.1), '/mnt' was redefined as a mount point for temporary filesystems (ex: mount /dev/sda4 /mnt), but they left in a clause where you could continue to have sub-directories so that you were still in compliance if using the old directory layout.
https://u9506022.ct.sendgrid.net/wf/click?upn=-2FtiQfugU0Pt3oP5L9PpI-2Bm6bnNzJH3XxuXeeSHPGOn85swdGFglkvBxcnxLxW-2BJtA5JQEofuBB3NkShB1xBymPiI2NTuzyWmF1UZaPqzAeg-3D_Jk5LPYwsS0SsgumitnMItu9QU7Qj-2BgmCmPDCx2Jg8xDqlduZYllnrBzoZ5DawB3Ocb-2BTjgiafPfo-2FGbdaPEtI5lF0ocb4sB-2BKi7PNXApG999Urz88ngMSaaSMQ7X3-2BdiZj8UwTj3fcGAM-2FTJJNh9yfvMdrl42GPGeUBKRLUWkhV9QCFmRSpPB3jWmlPDiN9QUqHSgcvifOqsBJtRUl-2FedQ7TbpFXzqHupQf670fzOR0-3D I remember this useless tidbit only in thinking to future proof, I had requested many years ago that we move the mountpoint in the book to /media/lfs, but /mnt/lfs is still compliant today (and I'm not sure that /media/lfs was appropriate anyway, though, through bad habit, it remains on my systems). One minor and major revision and 18 years later, the blurb stating that the contents of /mnt are a local issue is still present. I suppose it's been forgotten and will remain acceptable for the next 18 years. :-) Anyway, as to a host to build from, the last several bare metal builds I did, I just did a quick Arch install (who's partition I later repurposed for for /boot or /var). It's kind of my goto for something quick now days. It typically only takes about 10 minutes to install and reboot...much quicker than any installer IME, but that's probably only because I've done it so many times. At one point, if you didn't need jhalfs, it was possible to install the base-devel group right on the ramdisk and build from there (or even with jhalfs if you didn't update everything). It was tight, and I'd expect not possible now days though. --DJ
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