On Sat, 2014-09-13 at 13:27 +0000, Mcgroder, James wrote: > I'm curious about average/typical LFS build time. Obviously there are many > variables however I'm hoping the community would share actual effort from > personal experience. Should someone with good Linux/Bash command line > experience be able to do this in a day (say 8 - 10 hours)? Also, I assume > the time drops significantly after completing a few builds.
The actual build time isn't all that much - with the whole process automated, modern hardware can do the whole thing in an hour or two. Most of the time comes from actually reading the book, copy-pasting the instructions into a terminal - and then because hardly anyone gets everything right on the first try, going back and trying to recover from mistakes, which often means starting again from the beginning. Seriously - you should assume you're going to have to try several times before you get a booting system, because despite the best efforts of the LFS devs, people always make mistakes, misunderstanding instructions, or otherwise diverging from the book. Simon. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page Do not top post on this list. A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? A: Top-posting. Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
