Richard Westfield wrote:
No, the LiveCD cannot be installed to the hard drive - that's the point of the
LiveCD.
That's not true. I've got the LiveCD installed on a partition, and have been using that for my builds. LFS 6.1 is the only distro I've found, in my very quick research, that met all of the host requirements to build LFS 6.1. Most every other one uses GCC 4, or is missing a ton of packages, or is configured too weird, or comes with a kernel that was compiled with GCC 2.95.... It just wasn't worth the trouble. I just used the instructions here:
Well, it's not *designed* to be installed on the hard drive. :p
http://www.linuxquestions.org/questions/showthread.php?s=&threadid=369365
LFS 6.1 built just fine for me that way. In fact, it was the only way I was
able to get LFS 6.1 to build at all.
Speaking of kernels compiled with 2.95, an entry should be made in the FAQ about that one. Glibc will fail so many tests with such a kernel, at least in Chapter 5. Yes, the tests aren't essential in Chapter 5, but if I can't it to compile there and pass the tests (like it's done on every other previous version), then I don't trust it. As it stands, I have to live with it because I just can't get it to pass every test in Ch5. But, it would have saved a lot of searching and heartache. I only found out about that after it failed one particular test, and I went to the 10th page in my Google search...
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Why does it need to be in the FAQ? The book itself says that you need a
kernel >=2.6.2 compiled with gcc >= 3.0.
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