inquiring.m...@hushmail.com wrote: > Hello all, > > 1. I just saw the LFS site and would like to try it but can't see the > section that says how to download the source file packages ready to > work through the programme. > > 2. I'd also like to know which LIVE CD/DVD you can recommend to use > as a base that satisfies all the criteria from the script on the host > requirements page > (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/hostreqs.html) > as all the distro's I've chosen (major ones like Kubuntu, CentOS, > Gentoo, etc) all fail on one or more element. Some of them fail on > BISON while others on GCC, a package I suspect to be rather important > in this endeavour.
Any of those should be OK, but you will need to update them by adding a few packages. The procedures you use depend on which is used. > 3. I recently bought a new computer with no OS on it just for > installing Linux on it and learning more about it so LFS seemed to be > ideal. It's a new platform with UEFI instead of the older BIOS a 3TB > HDD. I read that on drives like this, the old fdisk tool is > insufficient but the only instructions I've seen in the manual are > for the older, fdisk programme. I read something about needing to > install a FAT32 partition at the start or something like that but > wasn't sure if this was right or not as I know that FS is quite > different to any *nix based filesystems. You will need to install a GPT partition table. The distros above should do that for you. Just make sure to leave room for LFS. Generally a build partition of 10G is plenty. Personally, I'd keep the *buntu, RH, etc partition small. 10G is fine for them too. -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
