On Fri, Dec 31, 2010 at 04:27:38AM +0000, Ken Moffat wrote: typos and thinkos ! > > The disk needs some partitions on it. On one of those you will > create the LFS root ('/') system. The other partitions are > "whatever you need". If this is going to be a desktop, I recommend > you create at least two partitions for '/' (the current system you > are building, the next, and perhaps a third - maybe more than this > if you wish to follwo the LFS-development book), a swap partition 'follow', obviously > (or maybe two of those if you suspend to disk - one for swap, the > other for suspending), somewhere for /home, and a /boot partition > (at the inside end of the disk - the slowest part) because that the '*outside*' or 'far end' (hishest addresses) is the slowest part > makes switching from one LFS install to a later one fairly easy.
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