Aleksandar Kuktin wrote:
> Hello and welcome. Feel as if at home.
>
>> On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:46:24 +0100
>> [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.
>
> You either have to download them yourself, one at a time, or get
> yourself a copy of the LFS live CD which has them all in one place.

They are at http://anduin.linuxfromscratch.org/sources/LFS/lfs-packages/

7.4-rc1 should be there later today.

> The fdisk manual page states that fdisk was, in fact, not designed for
> big partitions. It further states that one should use the more advanced
> GNU parted for such disks. Therefore, use parted. And I'm pretty sure
> you can ignore that "FAT32 at the start" part.

For a EFI based system it can be a little tricky.  Let a distro do it 
the first time.  gdisk is easier to use than parted.

No, you don't need a FAT partition, but you do need a small (1 MB) grub 
partition. Keep ALL boundaries aligned with even MB to avoid possible 
problems.

   -- Bruce



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