On 12/6/05, David Murphy <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > I'm taking another run at LFS. I installed it a while back and loved the > result until I moved to where I needed to go wireless and could not for the > life of me get the adapter to run. Now I'm back on a wired connection and > looking to try again. LiveCD looks like a good alternative to installing a > full base distro, so I'm giving that a go. Is there a document anywhere > that covers the areas in which a LiveCD-based LFS setup might differ from > the usual? LiveCD offers the ability to install the lfs from a "good" host. You can do anything you'd like from the liveCD. BTW, wireless is working fine : I've compiled a recent kernel (I have an intel pro 2200, driver added to kernel 2.6.14) and the wireless-tools last version (0.28beta I believe). Modified a bit of the startup scripts, and it rocks ! > > In particular, at the moment I'm stuck on sections 4.3 and 4.4: "Adding the > LFS User" and "Setting Up the Environment". Each involves writing to the > LiveCD filesystem, which obviously at best can only be done in RAM. Since > I'm likely to be spreading the install over a number of sessions with > reboots in between... you see where I'm going. You can reboot as many times as you want, as long as you recreate the LFS user, re-chroot, always with same (and correct) options. You should print a few pages of the book, the ones useful for these commands, so you are sure you always do the same. FYI, I've installed LFS 6.1 and a part of BLFS (Xorg + firefox + required stuff for each) in about 24h (first time I build a lfs). So you can probably let your computer up and running for this time. Then you have anything you'd like to start from your hard drive.
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