On 2/26/07, Alexander E. Patrakov <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > TekEmperor wrote: > > 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... > > The full answer will be mailed to you privately if this is not your firt LFS > and you promise that you will never ask for support. However, it looks like > you don't need that, see below. > Unfortunately I can't make such a promise since this is my first LFS. However, I don't usually ask for support. I find google to be much faster, (I've never run into a "new" problem). This happened to be one area where the answer was not available. (Or I lack the capacity to understand it).
> > 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. > > What you need is not to "install the CD to the hard drive", but to be able > to continue without losing configuration. > > The "very slow" issue will likely persist even if you install the CD > contents to the hard disk. The reason is that, after you complete building > binutils pass 1, the kernel caches almost everything in RAM, and things are > as fast as they would be from the hard disk. > > To be able to continue without losing configuration, it is sufficient to > hibernate the computer. Please read the README file in the /root directory > on the CD, it explains how to do this. > The hibernation option would not work in my current setup because the other operating system (DSL 3.2) I use on my laptop (my only computer right now) loads all swap partitions by default. The idea of running the LFS LiveCD from my harddrive is to allow a usable environment to access the internet while I compile in the background. > > 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. > > Well, the complete answer to this question can be abused by newbies (and > that's the reason why it is available via private mail only), because they > sometimes do search the archives. Hint: the kernel does support ext2 > filesystem and your IDE controller. > Well using your hint I did get farther. I'm not going to list what I did from there or why it didn't work. I'm just going to assume that there is more to it than I tried, and ask you kindly to send me the infromation privately. Knowing full well that if I am going to ask for additional help (from LFS sources), I must first get to the same point via standard means. Does this suffice? - Brian. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/livecd FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
