Howard wrote:
/dev/hdc : LFS Live CD Verified (/dev/hdc ? not /dev/cdrom? or is
it copied to hdc)
Just clearifying (I see the problem with booting is already solved,
except from the i586 non-boot thing :( )
HD's and CD-ROM's are all treated basically the same. hda=primary
master, hdb=primary slave, hdc=secondary master, and hdd=secondary
slave. /dev/cdrom or /dev/dvd and such are just symlinks to the
respective devices.
So should I take this boot problem to the "live cd" mail list?
or forget it and just move on into the book.
If your host (RH9) is sufficient for building LFS, then you could just
do it from there. Check the requirements in the book. If it's good
enough, then you already got the needed packages on the cd :)
And btw, you probably should set up a big swap partition when you're
building LFS, as especially GCC and Glibc require a substantially
amount of memory, and I don't think 128 MB would quite cut it. Try at
least the double amount of swap, but I would recommend 3-4 times the
size of your RAM.
Holy Mackerel! 512mb?! geez, right now shm is 64mb. I'm going to
have to do some clearing! Goodbye gnome......(use fluxbox anyhow)
Well.. I can't really say exactly how much is needed, but I've
experienced some boring segmentation faults on an old machine without
enough RAM/swap space. The specifics: P200MMX, 96MB RAM, 200MB swap
didn't work. (think it was the gcc package that gave the seg fault)
After I set up 1GB swap, everything went smooth (and slow..) I went for
the overkill since it takes several hours to compile on that machine, so
less would probably also do it..
And if you haven't already tried it, I would recommend giving XFce a
shot. It's lightweight and fast.
I'll have to read up on the possibilty of changing exsisting
partitions without messing up my RH9 install. Especially if I can't
get the live cd working.
Not to be rude, but do you really need w98? I'm proud to say there's not
a machine running anything from M$ in my house anymore :)
You could use that wasted space for the LFS build ;)
And when you're done and happy, RH will probably go out the window too.
Tor Olav
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