Not to be off topic, but I know debian has a minimal install that uses floppies and gets packages off the net, you can use that to make a minimal system which you can use to get the LFS packages... although at that point you might just want to get another distro... that might not be an option without the CD. I don't know how many floppies debian uses but I'm sure it's not more than 8 or something.
At the same time I know one of the ALFS projects downloads sources on it's own... I don't know it's dependancies though, that might be a choice after a small debian install. Good luck, hope someone has a wayyy better suggestion. - Michael On 2/3/06, Srinath Madhavan <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I know this sounds somewhat ridiculous, but is there any way one could > boot from a "live floppy" (or some such) and get the same functionality > as a "live cd" by for instance, having the contents of the "live cd" > copied to a certain partition on the hdd. > > The reason I ask is because, the CDROM in my ThinkPad 390x is quite > flaky (as in gives up reading on most cds) and I don't have any plans > to replace the same anytime in the near future. As a result, if I could > use the floppy to boot the "live cd" upto a point from where it could > start reading contents off a specified partition on the hdd, I could > effectively and quite easily follow the instructions upto BLFS. > > I've already tried using a proper "live cd" (few months ago), and I > faced I/O problems very frequently. > > Alternately I have a PCMCIA network card and access to several > GNU/Linux machines connected to the internet. So if I could somehow > perform a network boot or a boot from a floppy and perform a > pseudo-network install kind-of procedure it could be useful. > > I appreciate any sugggestions/pointers you may have in this regard. Thanks! > > __________________________________________________ > Do You Yahoo!? > Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around > http://mail.yahoo.com > -- > http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
