On Sunday 11 September 2005 16:52, Christopher Reimer wrote: > Greetings, > > I'm starting out with an old Pentium 100MHz/40MB/20GB (a Fujitsu drive > with Ontrack overlay software) laptop that's fully supported under SuSE > Linux (the hardware, not KDE). This is my first time building a LFS. > > I'm looking for a boot disk similar to a Windows 98 boot disk that will > get me started with setting up the hard drive and accessing to CDROM > drive for the liveCD. I searched the archives but didn't find a workable > solution. Does such a boot disk image exist? > You could try Smart Boot Manager
http://btmgr.webframe.org/ Which will run from a floppy and let you boot from the CD, but I'm not sure your laptop has enough memory or processor speed for building LFS. > Or would it be simpler to install SuSE Linux on one-half of the hard > drive and create LFS on the other half? > If you have access to a faster box, have a look for the cross-compiling hint, which explains how to use a fast box to build LFS for a slow box. Alot less painful (-; Cheers, John Gay -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
