On Sun, 11 Sep 2005, Christopher Reimer wrote:
Greetings,
I'm starting out with an old Pentium 100MHz/40MB/20GB (a Fujitsu drive with
Ontrack overlay software) laptop that's fully supported under SuSE Linux (the
hardware, not KDE). This is my first time building a LFS.
I'm unclear what you mean by 40MB/20GB and 'Ontrack' - that sounds like
a windoze driver ? I imagine it will take several days to build LFS on
a P100, so I wouldn't look forward to it, but it should certainly be
possible.
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?
I don't know how x86 linux boots from floppies know - supposedly the
2.6 kernel requires a bootloader. Back in 2.4 kernels you could 'make
bzdisk' to create a boot floppy, but I suspect those days have gone.
Or would it be simpler to install SuSE Linux on one-half of the hard drive
and create LFS on the other half?
If you can make Suse (with a 2.6 kernel) boot and see the 20GB disk,
then yes, that is a practical place to start from. If you have the
option, partioning so that '/' for Suse is 3 GB, /lfs is another 3GB,
swap is whatever seems appropriate, and the rest a common /home, will
see you in a good position to go forward [ you can reuse the '/' from
Suse to upgrade to the next LFS system ]. You might also want a common
/boot partition - some people like them. People with bigger disks will
often want to use more space for '/', particularly if they build
space-hogs like OOo, but for a lean system 3 GB is plenty of space.
Ken
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