On Aug 16, 2013, at 1:46 PM, [email protected] wrote: > Hello all, > > 1. I just saw the LFS site and would like to try it but can't see > the section that says how to download the source file packages ready > to work through the programme. > > 2. I'd also like to know which LIVE CD/DVD you can recommend to use > as a base that satisfies all the criteria from the script on the > host requirements page > (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/hostreqs.html > ) as all the distro's I've chosen (major ones like Kubuntu, CentOS, > Gentoo, etc) all fail on one or more element. Some of them fail on > BISON while others on GCC, a package I suspect to be rather > important in this endeavour. > > 3. I recently bought a new computer with no OS on it just for > installing Linux on it and learning more about it so LFS seemed to > be ideal. It's a new platform with UEFI instead of the older BIOS a > 3TB HDD. I read that on drives like this, the old fdisk tool is > insufficient but the only instructions I've seen in the manual are > for the older, fdisk programme. I read something about needing to > install a FAT32 partition at the start or something like that but > wasn't sure if this was right or not as I know that FS is quite > different to any *nix based filesystems. > > I realise there are a few different points here but would appreciate > some help on this to get me started.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/prerequisites.html You should know how to download packages. The links are given in the section of the book about packages and patches. For a livecd you can use the one I keep updated http://cross-lfs.org/~kb0iic/livecdupd/ or any other livecd which meets the host system requirements. The host sys reqs page does state that dev packages may need to be installed. There are wikis about configuring bootloaders for EUFI, and if you have the above and patience and don't want quick answers and can search mailing lists and documentation, then you will most likely succeed. LFS has a FAQ, has a mailing list (which is archived by gmane and others to search), do not take the LFS support page and download page and book for granted. Read and comprehend and have fun building LFS. Sincerely, William Harrington -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
