On Mon, 18 Jul 2011 13:17:09 -0500, Mike McCarty <[email protected]> wrote: >> Try using a more recent livecd from http://www.livecdlist.com/ > > Good advice as far as it goes, but many of those LiveCDs on the list > don't have a development environment on them. So, I'll add: > > Eschew the "small" ones. I like Knoppix. The 6.4.4 version is nice, > It likes to boot Ariadne, which you probably won't want, unless you > are seeing impaired. So when you boot, specify knoppix. You get > a pretty good choice of window managers. If you use/like LXDE, then > one little "gotcha" is that by default it only has one workspace, > and no manager installed on the tool bar. Right click on the > tool bar near the right, and you'll get the option to add the > workspace manager:
Eh, I just used Ubuntu, last time I had to reinstall a machine from a non-LFS host. You need to install a couple of extra packages (the mawk vs gawk fix, that sort of thing), but it's close enough... Simon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
