Em 16-02-2014 12:49, Armin K. escreveu: > On 02/16/2014 02:38 AM, Ken Moffat wrote: >> On Sun, Feb 16, 2014 at 01:04:12AM +0100, Armin K. wrote: >>> Hello there, >>> >>> I have been spending my time on LFS IRC for a long time now and have >>> noticed that most users who come for help there get stuck at configuring >>> their kernel. >>> >>> Thus, I have written a rather basic guide on how to configure the kernel >>> to get your machine to boot for the first time (disk controllers and >>> filesystem drivers), but not other hardware specific stuff. >>> >>> You can see it here: >>> >>> http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~krejzi/basic-kernel.txt >>> >>> Any suggestions or additions are welcome. >>> >>> Cheers. >>> >> Just a couple of suggestions: >> > > Thanks for your input. > >> 1. SATA etc >> "So I select the first two modules below." >> s/modules/drivers/ - people coming from a distro might be used to >> building everything as a module and take it too literally. >> > > Yeah, that makes sense. I've also added a note at the beginning that > everything should be built-in. > >> 2. filesystems - >> I would be inclined to drop specific mention of reiser3, and cover >> it by "Additionally, any other filesystem not listed here.", but >> perhaps some distro(s) used to use it in the last couple of years. >> > > That was first in my mind, but I realised that BLFS still provides fs > tools for reiserfs and that's why I added it. I've removed it now though. > >> I guess that defconfig covers almost everything else that is >> commonly needed to get a bootable .config. >> >> ĸen >> > > That is mentioned at the beginning. But then again, some might try to > "strip" the kernel as much as possible, that's why I've covered the > basics only. >
It is a very good work, would have saved me some days, perhaps months, as the first build, I gave up, in the past. Thanks. Optional, for "VMware virtual machines": it could be interpreted incorrectly as optional for VM... I would think that to emphasize, it could be "Optional, but required for VMware virtual machines". "One of the USB controller drivers, hardware dependent. You can look in the "lsmod" output" - can all be used? # while the others can be also select as "module": s/select/selected/? -- []s, Fernando -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
