On vendredi 16 août 2013 à 19:46:24 (+0100), [email protected] wrote: > Hello all,
Hi, > 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. LFS is a book. On the website, in section LFS, you can download it or read it on line. Read all the book and you will have a fepter in it which will help you downloading all xou need. But read the whole book (except maybe the changelog). Don't skip anything. To download the packages, everything is explained chap3. > 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. I'd say some Debian or Gentoo LiveCD works fine. At the starting of the book, you'll be able to check wether you have host prerequisities and, otherwise, install the needed. Ubuntu seems to cause, sometimes, issues, but maybe things have changed. > 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. As far I know, you can toogle, in your "bios", between classical and UEFI mode. You should enable classic mode. Your question goes beyond the primary purpose of the project. I don't know. You should read how to install a classical distro such as Debian, Arch or Gentoo on such configurations. As you'll see, lfs doesn't explain topics such as kernel configuration, etc. You should learn more about these stuff before starting such build. > I realise there are a few different points here but would appreciate some > help on this to get me started. > > Thanks in advance. > > IM. > > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
