Thanks for the VERY quick reply.... that is really a excellent
support !!!

Well, sorry I'm not really an expert in creating my own distro....

I have a USB stick with different distros (Puppy, dreamlinux) and they
come with only a few files (vmlinuz, ...xx.img etc) I can boot this
distro from my USB-Stick, so that works fine. 
So I would love to have my lfs on the USB-Stick in a few files too. Not
to install it, just like the others as a live-distro... but I'dont know
where to start: 
After all: How do I do a .img file  of my lfs?

Thanks anyway
Rodolfo


 
On Wed, 2009-09-23 at 14:24 -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Rodolfo Perez wrote:
> 
> > I could install lfs-6.4 on my laptop and I'm really happy about my new
> > lfs. 
> > Now I would like to put it on my USB-Flash drive. I checked on lfs and
> > was googeling.... but could not find a really satisfiying answer.
> > 
> > I'd like to have a very small (max. 500Mb) lfs distro on my usb and it
> > should be as lfs-live.
> 
> Most systems recognize usb drives as just another drive.  There is no reason 
> why 
> you can't set it up just like any other drive.  There are only a couple of 
> issues.  First, the kernel must be able to support any devices on the system 
> that you want to use.  Second the system BIOS should be able to recognize and 
> boot from the usb drive, usually from a keyboard prompt.  Third, you have to 
> set 
> up grub so that the MBR is on the USB drive.
> 
> Getting the distro down to 500M shouldn't be too hard.  There are a lot of 
> things in /usr/share that can be deleted.  Also be sure to strip all the 
> executables properly.
> 
> If you aren't going to compile, you can even remove gcc and several other 
> programs.  You can also remove any static libraries that have been installed.
> 
>    -- Bruce
> 
> P.S.  Please ignore William.  Most, but not all, of his posts are to satisfy 
> his 
> own ego.  He is not a member of the LFS team.

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