> I'd like to see some actual statistics of people who made it through cleanly > on the first try. I biffed my first try with many of the same problems that come > up weekly here, so I know that's not me.
My first was with LFS-4.1, a year ago last November. That was hand done and I forget now what problems I encountered, but with a little coaching from a friend I made it through. Then several months after completion I re-did it from this LFS host using scripts cut & pasted from the book. That went very smoothly. My recent experience with LFS-6.1.1 was again from cut & paste scripts. The main problem I experienced is the Live-CD I got at the same time as the book was only 6.1.0 and I didn't notice. So I tried to install perl-5.8.6 with the book's instructions for 5.8.7. IMO the book is very good, but it's not for newbies. The explanations are good, but the installer has to have a certain level of experience with Linux to understand what is meant by them. If there's any "criticism" I'd offer, it's that the book produces a clean, running, "spare" Linux system, but it's not particularly "usable" without significant enhancements from BLFS--and that's probably exactly as it should be. I think the major improvement would be a greater emphasis on a having a simple, effective package mangement system from the very beginning. I prefer git, the Guarded Installation Tool script. I used that after my first build. Paul Rogers ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) http://www.xprt.net/~pgrogers/ http://www.geocities.com/paulgrogers/ Rogers' Second Law: "Everything you do communicates." (I do not personally endorse any additions after this line. TANSTAAFL :-) -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
