I do believe this has already been asked, but I can't find the answer and I've never posted to a mailing-list before. I understand that booting from an LFS LiveCD ISO copied to my harddrive is not the same as the LFS that I am going to build. This is not a shortcut, I just need a stable host OS. That out of the way...
I have an old thinkpad 770 on which I'd like to install LFS. I tried many linux distros as a host OS, but the things that worked on this computer lacked certain requirements necessary to build the LFS system (most notably a 2.6.x kernel). I am able to boot from the LiveCD, so I know this will work. However, it's very slow. I'd also like to be able to shut it down without losing my configurations during the installation of LFS. >From Damn Small Linux (3.2), I was able to download the LFS LiveCD ISO (6.2-3). I mounted the ISO and subsequently it's root.ext2 file. I copied the contents of the mounted root.ext2 to a clean partition. Then deleted the /boot shortcut and replaced it with the /boot folder from the ISO. I configured grub (which I have conveniently on another partition) with the following. title lfs livecd (harddrive) root (hd0,2) kernel (hd0,2)/boot/isolinux/linux root=/dev/hda3 vga=791 initrd (hd0,2)/boot/isolinux/initramfs_data_cpio.gz This gives me a nice little tux icon in the upper left hand corner then dies after attempting to find the CD 4 times. I believe the culprit is the initramfs_data_cpio.gz searching for the CD, but I don't know enough about initial ram disks to change it. Thanks for any help you can give, Brian. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
