How to tar up the whole LFS system. I mean what all directories ( all the directories have same name as given in the book ). Would simply tarring and untarring do the job? ( except some minor changes that you mentioned )
On Wed, Dec 9, 2020, 00:06 Bruce Dubbs via blfs-support < blfs-support@lists.linuxfromscratch.org> wrote: > On 12/8/20 12:00 PM, Scott Andrews via blfs-support wrote: > > > The only sane way ( successful way ) to build LFS for it to be installed > > onto other machine is to.... > > > > 1. Use a package manager > > > > 2. Build ALL the packages in a clean chroot > > > > 3. Create a base system of packages and all the add on > > packages needed. You have to merge LFS and BLFS together. > > You will have issues with controlling dependencies between the > > various packages. > > > > 4. Build an installation script to install the binary packages > > from the package manager (repository). Formatting a drive and > > installation of binaries going to the formatted drive included > > in this step. > > > > 5. Fix up the configuration files for each machine. > > > > 6. Transfer drive to the target machine. > > > > 7. A way to update the target machine(s). > > > Not true. You can tar up the LFS system and untar it on an empty > partition on the target machine. One caveat is if the target machine is > less capable than the build system, you need to build gmp generically. > > Other minor things are to change the host name, ip address, fstab, > grub.cfg, and maybe unprivileged user(s). Also any kernel modules and > (potentially) firmware for the target system must be available. > > -- Bruce > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page >
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