pavan shah wrote:
hello all!!
I have almost done installing lfs on mandrake10.But i have following
queries regarding lfs:
1)I did nt find anywhere what to do with the sources directory.Can i
safely delete it?
because in some sections they have told to create symlinks from
sources directory to /tool/bin and /bin directory.
No, you don't make any symlinks from the sources dir to anywhere. You
certainly can remove the whole dir when you're done, though it's not a
bad idea to keep it in case you need to reinstall a package or rebuild a
new system.
2)Final size for my system is 200 MB.I have removed man and info pages
as i don't need them .It has reduced another 80 to 90 MB of space.Can
i further reduce it?
Friends i have already tried --strip-all on my binaries in /bin,/sbin
,/usr/bin,/usr,sbin.
and --strip-debug.
Now i am going to remove libraries in /usr/lib ending with _g.a or
_p.a.I don't want debug libraries.
Check the LFS Hints section - there should be one or two describing how
to trim down your system size.
3) I want to remove license files how can i find them?
I have no idea what you're talking about. Can you be more specific?
4) I could not understand concept of keymaps.Please tell me how can i
include them in my kernel.
If you don't know then you probably don't need to worry about it.
Basically, a "keymap" is just the layout of the keys on your keyboard.
5)I have not yet executed commands mentioned in section 8.4:"making
the lfs system bootable"
My mandrake10 partition is on /dev/hda5 and swap is on
/dev/hda1.Bootloader in the host system is lilo.
for LFS i am working on /dev/hda3.
during grub installation i can change the parameter to
root (hd0,2).
But still my question is that after all these steps ,will i be able to
boot into my host system or in next reboot i will get the grub loader
with entry for lfs.
You can either add an entry for LFS to lilo that's already installed, or
add Mandrake to the menu for GRUB. If you do install GRUB then that's
what you'll have when you boot.
regards
Pavan.
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