On 10/31/2013 03:51 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote: > Dan McGhee wrote: >> So that I can "hit the deck running" after I get my new system to boot, >> I want to add a few packages, and their associated boot scripts, from >> BLFS. These are dhcpd, wpa-supplicant, libxml, libn, open-ssl and >> d-bus. I seem to remember reading somewhere, and I thought it was in >> the LFS book, that it was OK to do what I'm thinking of. I don't see >> anything that will hinder my plan, but I thought I'd ask here where many >> people know a lot more about this than I do. >> >> Anything to be careful of? > For the most part, you are OK as long as you maintain the virtual file > systems that are mounted in Chapter 6. I usually build over ssh so I > make sure that openssl and openssh are in place. Other things I build > early are lsb-release (for my scripts), sudo, which, and wget. > > I also have my sources in /usr/src and that is a separate partition so I > can use it from any build. I recommend the following as separate > partitions: /boot, /home, and /usr/src. /opt is also a possibility. > > -- Bruce > I have a script that gets me to chroot and it mounts those each time I go in.
I forgot about wget, thanks for reminding me. A separate partition for /usr/src? Never occurred to me, but it's a good idea. Thanks, Bruce. Dan -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
