On Sun, Jan 10, 2016 at 10:15:14PM +0000, Read, James C wrote: > Has anybody ever actually built a LFS 7.8 system on a non LFS host? I'm > starting to think this is some kind of joke. Albeit not very funny. > > > If anybody out there has done this I would be interested to hear what host > system you did this from.
I've tried with a number of common distros, but was most sucessful with Slackware. My uninformed opinion is that some distros (Debian, etc.) heavily patch, which can cause problems. Slackware is vanilla, and worked well for me. -- 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
