Justin R. Knierim wrote:
Srinath M wrote:
Hi Justin,
That was fast. Thanks. However, I cannot afford more than 4-6 hours at
a stretch. Is it possible to do the installation in parts. Can I can
turn the machine off, boot using the live CD again the next day and
continue where I left off?
Yes. Of course when you restart, you need to remount all your
partitions for the new lfs.
When you get to chapter six, you must also redo the following sections:
6.2. Mounting Virtual Kernel File Systems
6.3. Entering the chroot environment
and lastly
6.8. Populating /dev
It sounds like a lot, but cut/pasting it goes quick. I don't think I
have forgetten anything, so hopefully someone else will chime in with
more info.
Justin
yes, it is possible to do it in stretches, I've built a a couple of LFs
systems like this (most of the pc's i own are running LFS) and quite a
few of them were built in stages as time allows.
personally, i found it easier to just leave the machine turned on in a
quiet corner, rather than go through re-mounting/chroot each time i want
to work on it. i tend to find it serves as a little
reminder/motivation too, and it means you can set off the huge compiles
and leave the machine working whilst you get on with things like sleep ;)
as Justin said, if your doing it in stages, its very important to make
sure you go through the correct mounting and chrooting sections prior to
continuing, if you switch off the machine between stretches.
`Zidane
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