Am Samstag, den 16.03.2019, 09:52 +0000 schrieb Richard Melville: > On Fri, 15 Mar 2019 at 21:23, Thomas Trepl <[email protected]> > 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. > Sure. You do not even need dd, you can simply copy the system over (preserving the permissions etc.) or use tar to pack it in a single file... Thats (one of) the beauty of Linux that the whole OS is just a bunch of files.
Remember that some configuration remains to be done after copying it somewhere else (/etc/fstab). -- Thomas -- 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
