Christopher Reimer wrote:
Greetings,
Hi
I'm starting out with an old Pentium 100MHz/40MB/20GB (a Fujitsu drive with Ontrack overlay software) laptop
I built a LFS system on a similar system about 3 years ago (LFS 3.3 if I remember correctly) and it wasn't an enjoyable experience. It took me a week at least if I remember correctly. If I also remember correctly, you shouldn't need the ontrack software. Also I believe I kept a /boot partition at the beginning of the drive so that the bios still could boot the kernel. I could be wrong or things might have changed since then though.
I'm looking for a boot disk similar to a Windows 98 boot disk that will get me started with setting up the hard drive and accessing to CDROM drive for the liveCD. I searched the archives but didn't find a workable solution. Does such a boot disk image exist?
Sorry, but I just don't think the livecd would be a good choice with your system. You already have very limited memory, and having the livecd taking up that much more of it, will make your compile times extremely long. Also, I don't know of anyone making boot disks for the livecd. Hmm.
Or would it be simpler to install SuSE Linux on one-half of the hard drive and create LFS on the other half?
This is what I did 3 years ago. It works. Just make sure it is up to the requirements needed.
BTW, this question might have been better for the livecd mailing list. Justin -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
