ga ho wrote:
> [email protected] wrote:
>> Is it possible to build Linux from Scratch on a USB Flash Drive. I
>> did build it there but am having a time getting Grub to recognize it.
>>
> Yes I built LFS-6.5 on my desktop and transfered it to a USB drive with
> rsync
> Building directly on the usb drive is slow and not necessary.
> Don't do the rsync while booted into LFS.
> You need the USB stuff built into the kernel as well as the filesystem (
> I used ext2) and necessary hardware drivers, not as modules.
This is not a good file system to use on USB FLASH drives. You want
one which doesn't require rewriting the directory with every
access to the file system. It'll wear out the FLASH, and it'll
also be very very slow.
Mike
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