> From: [email protected] (akhiezer) > It's idiotic to label such a critique as ad-hominem.
You criticized the person, not the point of discussion, i.e. LFS. That is exactly what an ad-hominem attack is. > Did your post serve any useful purpose. It does if such things are not posted in the future, suggesting to newbies that they'll be reamed for asking an awkward question. > From: Ken Moffat <[email protected]> > I've never moved a system during a build. I have several times used > an existing LFS system to initialise a new box, I never have before either, but I like to build/use a pair of identical twin boxes for just this reason--albeit primarily because "that other software" throws a hissy-fit if it can see the hardware changed. Normally I run my "clone" script that goes through the sequence again, but using the binary tarballs my package manager makes every step. My scripts have pre- and post- functions to handle some things. > For the kernel, my configs are machine-specific so I need to fix up I aim for the LCD "compatible" kernel options in Ch8, so the installation kernel will be most likely to boot whatever it gets. If a box fails, the drive gets put in some box that's handy, and the kernel was idiosyncratic, that is NOT good! After it's running one can rebuild a customized kernel. > In BLFS, I've also had to rebuild Mesa (BLFS-7.6) to run in qemu, > because it was trying to use things available to the cpu I had used > to build it, and those caused llvm errors to be reported - you might > want to remember that for when you eventually get to LFS-7.6 ;-) Got one i7 available I'd like to go virtual with--when I have the time! But I'll be building this BLFS for LCD i686. > And I do not think this is worth scripting, I only do it very > occasionally But when one gets to a certain vintage one tends to forget details. 8-( -- Paul Rogers [email protected] Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://www.fastmail.com - Choose from over 50 domains or use your own -- 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
