Hi Members, I hope to begin the journey of learning to build my own LFS distro and have been reading the Essential Pre-Reading Guide for Life with LFS (over and over) as well as the LFS book itself. I'm beginning to become familiar with all the terminology and would like some advice on choosing a host distro. This first step is daunting to say the least.
I have accomplished quite a bit of reading over the past few weeks, searched the LFS FAQ, scanned 3 months back on the lfs-support mailing list, have utilized google search and would like to ask for additional support before embarking on this first crucial step please. After all the research, I am still confused as to which host distro to utilize. I was going to utilize the LFS LiveCD in a virtual box but not sure if my legacy system will support a virtual machine (please see system specs below).I have more than enough hard drive space and would like to install the host distro to my hard drive (my system has two hard drives). Last month I attempted to install Ubuntu numerous times but the install failed half way through with an error message. After much research I decided to look for another distro and was amazed at the hundreds of choices. This led to a complete study of Linux and how one distro differs from another. I decided to pull-back and install nothing and simply read, study and learn. I have coded before but nothing on a profesional lebel. Currently studying "C" language using Code::Blocks. Also learned about learned about checksum and interesting hints in regards to downloading and burning iso files. At this point, I'd rather install a dstro that LFS members recommend as being compatible with LFS version 7.0. I would like to utilize Debian as my host distro for the LFS build as many successful distro's seem to be forked off Debian. Debian has a good package manager and separates free and non-free software quite well. However after reading Debian's installation procedure, I'm not sure If I have the technical experience to install a distro that requires users to install multiple CD's. I notice that other distro's offer their iso images that can fit on one CD (this I would prefer). I did hear that Debian offers an iso image that will -in fact- fit on one CD and is easy to install but I have not been able to locate the link. Also, If any one can recommend a different distro and why or a distro that historically has been a good match for Linux-From_Scratch I would very much appreciate it? I am very familiar with distrowatch and many other support links but considering the time and effort to install a distro I simply wanted to be sure that the distro that I finally settle with is in fact a good base. My system specs are: Motherboard: iWill DVD266R Motherboard featuring "Dual" Symmetric multiprocessing (SMP) x86 Pentium III Coppermine processors (1 GHz each). source: http://www.xbitlabs.com/articles/mainboards/display/iwill-dvd266-r.html RAM: 1 gig DDR memory (4 gig max). Supported DDR types PC2100/PC1600 DDR SDRAM PC133/PC100 SDRAM Peripheral Devices: Foppy Drive Hard Drives Maxtor IDE 40 gig Hard Drive (currently Running Windows 2000) Jumper on drive set to Master Western Digital E-IDE 80 gig Drive (currently empty).Jumper on drive set to Slave. Iomage 1 terabyte (external) CD-R/RW DVD-R/RW USB: 2 ports USB 1.0 Based upon the above specs., it is my understanding that any distro that is based upon the i386, i486, i586 and i686 architecture will be compatible with my legacy system. Thank you very much Wally Lepore -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
