On Wed, 2011-07-27 at 22:57 -0400, Bill Cunningham wrote: > Ok thanks all. I see. I will check it out. Once I build this 5.1 would I > be able to go to 6.8 immediately?
No, don't do that - LFS 5.1 is itself an ancient version, from 2005 or so. Bruce probably only mentioned it because it was the last version that supported a 2.4 kernel. And because it used a 2.4 kernel, it would be useless for building any recent version for the same reason as your RH9. Just find a live disk of some recent distro, and use that as a host - Ubuntu is good, someone else suggested Gentoo. You don't actually need to install it - just boot off a CD or USB stick, and build the packages from there. Forget about Redhat 9 - it's just too old. Simon. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
