There is another method you can try. The Eee lets you boot from SD/SDHC, so you could try mounting an SD chip on the computer you are building LFS with, and build LFS on the SD chip. Then insert the chip into the Eee and boot from it.
----- Original Message ----- From: "Dan McGhee" <[email protected]> To: "LFS Support List" <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, September 13, 2009 11:37:13 AM GMT -07:00 US/Canada Mountain Subject: Re: ASUS EeePC Laptop Adrian Fisher wrote: > Hello all, > > I want to put LFS on my ASUS Eee PC Laptop (40GB SSD) but it has no > CD/DVD drive and I have no external one. While it already has Linux on > it it is a minimal installation as it has no compiler and no means of > installing software manually, other than the few packages Asus saw fit > to make available for it. To this end I will need to boot from a USB > flash drive, is this done any differently than with a CD/DVD drive? How > do I install the image to this device? > > Thanks in advance. > > A. > If you can get a bootable image on your flash drive and your bios supports booting from usb, it should work. The lfs-liveCD has version 6.3 on it and it might not support your hardware. This was the case with my brand new Pavilion dv6. Ubuntu 9.04 has a livecd for the "Desktop" version. I had to resort to this to build on the new laptop. Trick is you have to "Quit" the Ubuntu install to activate livecd. They don't tell you this--one of the things I don't like about distros. Search the {,B}LFS mailing lists archives. There have been discussions about usb booting and they may be more helpful than I can be. Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
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