On Friday, January 27, 2006 7:01 AM GMT,
Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
Hi,
The subject says it all. What are the minimal requirements for using
the LiveCD? (I only have dialup, so I have to drive to a friend's
home to download it on his fast connection and burn it on CD)
Besides my three working machines (three Pentium IV PCs, one of them
a laptop, all running Slackware 10.2), I also have an old Pentium II
233 MHz / 12 GB
HD / 128 MB RAM in the attic. I'd like to fiddle with LFS on this
machine, and I wonder if the LiveCD will boot on this machine.
I believe that the liveCD will run just fine on your P2, but I wouldn't
recommend building LFS on it since this will take a VERY long time. I
believe it takes somewhere around 5hrs to build on my Athlon XP @1.8GHz.
Factoring the speed of your P2, I think it will take around 35hrs to build.
Are there two modes on the LiveCD, e. g. console vs. graphical?
The liveCD doesnt come with a GUI. It just boots a minimal system that
enables you to build LFS. If you want a liveCD Linux distro, take a look at
knoppix, or one of the mini distros that run off a liveCD like puppy Linux,
or DSL. Those are more suitable to run on your old box.
I understand there's no way to make a hard disk install on the
LiveCD, but what about storing config files (like xorg.conf) on a
floppy or USB stick?
Cheers,
Niki Kovacs
Regards,
IraqiGeek
www.iraqigeek.com
Anyone who has never made a mistake has never tried anything new.
Albert Einstein
--
http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support
FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html
Unsubscribe: See the above information page
