Wally Lepore wrote: > Hi Jasmine, > > I did read your reply and appreciate the kind suggestions. I am currently > reading the "Essential pre-reading for life with LFS", reading the LFS book > along with hunting the net for additional youtube videos and other support > avenues dedicated to helping newbies with whatever it takes to get afoot > hold on the build process. > > I have partitioned drives in the past and have experience with computer > hardware. > > Some really beginner questions that I'm dealing with (so you get an idea of > what is in the mind of a newbie) are: > > 1) Is it better to use a host distribution (to begin the build process) > that is Debian, Arch, Slackware or Fedora based verses a fork such as > Ubuntu, Linux Mint or any of the other hundreds out there? I was reading > and watching a video that suggested that Slackware Linux and Arch Linux are > pretty much plain vanilla distros and good for a host build.
Any of the above will work as long as the host system requirements are met. > 2) Also read that LFS may not recognize IDE disk drives during a compile. > My understanding is that LFS prefers SCSI drives but if one digs he can > configure LFS to recognize SCSI drives? Where did you read that? It's wrong. LFS will use anything the host uses. > I would be looking for a host that works best with the LFS book as my > number one goal is to simply learn how to build a distro. The most common I see here is Ubuntu, but 'best' really isn't an issue. Whatever you are comfortable with is best. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
