>> The reason I have been avoiding the differen didstro is because I'm confused
>> about the partitioning. Would I not partition durin the install and do it in
>> the shell? Would I follow the books instructions during the install? I don't
>> understand how to partition for LFS using another distro.
>
> In that case, I suspect you are not yet ready for LFS. But, I've
> been using PCs since the 1980s and partitioning holds no fears for
> me. I've also seen people manage to complete their LFS systems even
> though it appeared to me that they weren't ready. So ...
>
> 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
> (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
> makes switching from one LFS install to a later one fairly easy.
>
> Extended partitions. The primary partitions limit you to a maximum
> of 4 partitions, which probably isn't enough.
>
> Beyond that, you might feel the need to put /var on a different
> partition (so, again, probably a _pair_ of these for current and
> next LFS). People have suggested that e.g. /usr or /usr/local
> should be separate - most people don't need that, but if you want to
> do it, repeat them for *each* system you plan to build.
>
> My first LFS installation had a multitude of partitions, and was
> not ideal - it had seemed to me that separating /usr/local would be
> a good idea, but I had overlooked that everything there links to
> /lib/libc. So, when I built a newer LFS on a different partition,
> everything in /usr/local was linked to the non-existent old version
> of libc and no longer worked reliably. The key thing to remember is
> that we build a new system whenever we upgrade the toolchain, we
> don't normally install a newer gcc, glibc, or binutils into the
> current system [ OK, some of us did install a patched glibc for
> 2.12.1, but that was exceptional ]
>
> My experience is that fdisk, cfdisk, sfdisk, and parted are all
> reasonably straightforward if you understand what you are doing.
> The distros tend to wrap these in dumbed-down interfaces in their
> installers (typically, they want a mount point for a partition - if
> it is for a future system, just leave it blank).
>
> Your system, your choice. But ext4 is now probably a safer choice
> than ext2 or ext3 when you make the filesystems ;-)
I was planning to denote as little space as needed to the distro I'm using,
then partition the rest of the disk space according to the LFS book. Some
questions. Should I be planning on developing multiple LFS systems? What is the
/var used for? What do you me by /usr being separate? What do you mean by
making multiple '/' partitions? When you say inside of the disk, do you mean
selecting the "End" options when prompted to choose beginning or end? How would
I switch the /home and /boot partitions between build. I know this is many
questions, but I wasn't planning for the partitioning to be this difficult.
Thank you for the major help.
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