Just finished LinuxFromScratch :-)

[CTho9305]

It sort of boots... sort of 😉. I thought I put the right network card module in the kernel, but who knows. Networking is secondary.

"man" doesn't work (among many other things), because I compiled some programs with a different versions of gcc (some I did with 3.3, some with 3.2.1. I started with 3.3, the the second glibc compile wouldn't stop blowing up, so I recompiled a bunch of things with 3.2.1 and then glibc with 3.2.1... Microsoft would never make a DLL compiled in VS6 Service Pack 5 break when used with an EXE make in VS6, but hey, this is free... what do you expect

😉).

It works well enough for me to go sleep now... I'll deal with recompiling the rest again tomorrow.

The LFS script writers didn't put too much thought into their registration logic... my (real) name is common, so someone else already registered with it. Their loss 😉.

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

After you make LFS is there any way to save it? like if you want to format your HD, would you have to remake it?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

Originally posted by: PhoenixOfWater
After you make LFS is there any way to save it? like if you want to format your HD, would you have to remake it?

Normal backup, like anything else. But yeah, if you wipe it out, it's gone.

 

[CTho9305]

My setup is about 800MB right now... (with a bunch of the build directories and the statics still hanging around), which isn't all that bad. Had I followed the directions properly, it would have taken about 1 day, starting with the statics compiled (a friend had started LFS already and did that much, so he sent me a tarball of the /statics directory).

I was compiling on an XP2100+/512MB ram, under vmware (winXP host), and it was decently fast (MUCH faster than with an athlon 700 host, 256MB ram in vmware). I haven't done any big compiles natively on any hardware recently to compare.

 

[PhoenixOfWater]

is there any way of put it on a CD and making a install?

 

[Nothinman]

is there any way of put it on a CD and making a install?

Sure, if you write the installer.

 

[CTho9305]

Originally posted by: Nothinman

is there any way of put it on a CD and making a install?

Sure, if you write the installer.

The only part I wouldn't be able to do is make a botoable ISO under linux. I'd just make a 650MB file, mke2fs it, copy everything, then whoever does the bootable part just ahs to dump it on the HD and run lilo.

LFS now boots up properly. I think I have pretty much everything working properly now, except a g++ warning during compiles (see my other thread).

I'm thinking I'll do it all again tomorrow, but this time really not follow the book's directions.

 

[MournSanity]

With LFS, can you make your own, say, distribution that could be used with a set top box? Or let's say you want to make a GUI like that of the Gamecube or xbox startup. Can you do that? What would you need?

 

[Barnaby W. Füi]

You can do all of that stuff just as easily in any linux distro.

BTW, lfs supplies you with init scripts? Or do those come in some package from elsewhere? I thought the whole idea was that lfs just provided instructions, and all the software came from "standard" places.

 

[cleverhandle]

Originally posted by: BingBongWongFooey
BTW, lfs supplies you with init scripts? Or do those come in some package from elsewhere? I thought the whole idea was that lfs just provided instructions, and all the software came from "standard" places.

Yeah, but they make an exception for the init scripts, because they're really boring to write by hand. Error-prone, too. You're free to change them around of course.