On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 21:23, Thomas Trepl <tho...@linuxfromscratch.org> wrote:
> Am Freitag, den 15.03.2019, 14:00 -0700 schrieb Pei Jia: > > > > Hello: > > Finally, I successfully built LFS, and now I come to Chapter 7 System > Configuration. > > Chapter 7: System Configuration > > Chapter 8: Making the LFS System Bootable > > Chapter 9: The END > > > > My question is: > > Is chapter 7 System Configuration a must? I built everything onto a USB > stick. > > It does NOT have a video/camera connecting to it > > It does NOT have a Wifi module. > Anyway, Chap 7 is meant to do some configurations which are required > for booting/using your system. Especially without bootscripts, your > system will not be able to start. > > > I, of course, expect this USB stick is able to boot, but with a Wifi > connection > > using my laptop's Wifi, hopefully the same IP address as my local > laptop's Ubuntu. > It will not have any WiFi connection since the tools required for WiFi > are beyond a basic linux system and therefore you'll find instructions > to build them in the BLFS book. > > > What's more, I'm expecting this USB stick is NOT ONLY bootable, BUT ALSO > installable. > If you think you can install the content of the USB stick to disk > after you have booted from that USB, you'll be a bit disappointed. The > system on the UBS is a basic operating system ready to boot and ready > to get other packages installed to it. But there is no tool to > replicate it from one device to another nor not even a 'installer' > program. > Pei has a laptop running Ubuntu (the host) which comes with dd, which could be used, not whilst LFS is running, clearly, but whilst it is quiescent. Richard Richard
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