On Jan 15, 2016 5:08 PM, "Scott Czepiel" <[email protected]> wrote: > > Greetings long lost LFS'ers! > > It has been many years since my last build so I am very excited to > embark on a build of LFS 7.8 on my new server. Hopefully it will be > mostly smooth sailing, but of course it wouldn't be fun if I didn't > run into a few head-scratching problems along the way! > > Even though it's been 15 years since I first discovered this wonderful > project, this will only be my third "substantial" attempt at building > an LFS system. My first build occurred way back in the Spring of > 2001, and was based on version 2.4.3 of the book. I finished all of > LFS and a good chunk of BLFS as well. I used that machine as my > primary desktop system for about a year, after which it continued its > usefulness by running my website and mail server for another 2 years. > I named the server "hagrid" (Harry Potter was big at the time ;) For > historical laughs, here's the hardware the build was running on: > > Asus P2B Motherboard > Intel Pentium 2 - 400MHz > 128 MB PC100 SDRAM > Matrox Millenium G200 AGP w/8MB VRAM > DEC 21041 Tulip 10Mbps NIC > Primary Master: 8.0 GB WD Caviar #38400 > Primary Slave: 20.0 GB WDC200BB-00AUA1 >
I built 7.3 on a system of similar specs. For laughs, it took me about 3 weeks to build. I am afraid to even think about trying it with 7.8. I luckily have much higher speced machines now than I had in 2012. > The 2.4.3 LFS build included gcc 2.95.2, glibc 2.1.3, and kernel 2.4.4. > > And for comparison, here's what my new server is based on: > > Supermicro X11SSH-F with Intel C236 chipset > Intel Xeon E3-1220 V5 > 64 GB DDR4-2133 ECC > 200 GB Intel SSD > 2x 4TB WD RE WD4000FYYZ > > I now have more than twice as much RAM as I used to have disk space! > > In preparation for this endeavor, I've skimmed through the whole book > to see if there have been any dramatic changes since the last time > around. Version numbers have certainly changed, but the basic process > is very familiar. One issue that came up in the olden days was subtle > host-system toolchain dependencies bleeding into the LFS system > binaries. It looks like a lot of work has gone into making the > toolchain construction more robust, so I don't think that will be an > issue anymore. > > I've completed the system burn-in procedures[1] and installed CentOS > 7.2 as the host OS. I will probably follow the book very closely at > least up to BLFS, although I will probably stick with xfs instead of > ext4 for the filesystems. > > I'll send along any issues I run into, but given time constraints this > project is only allocated a small time slice :) So it may take a few > weeks before I get to a fully functioning system. > > Cheers! > czep > > [1] If interested, here are the 3 essential burn-in steps I use to > validate new hardware: > 1) memtest86 - run it overnight to get a few passes. > 2) smartmontools - this involves 4 tests: short, conveyance, > badblocks, and long: > smartctl -t short /dev/sdX > smartctl -t conveyance /dev/sdX > badblocks -ws /dev/sdX > smartctl -t long /dev/sdX > Review results with: smartctl --all /dev/sdX > Note: DO NOT run the badblocks test on an SSD > 3) prime95 - run for a few hours and make sure nothing catches on fire! Those are pretty good benchmarks. I tend to run Memtest86 nowadays only though. Is there a livecd for prime95? I only ever use the Windows version just until my gaming PC almost shuts off when I am testing it. And by the way, Welcome Back! Douglas R. Reno --LFS/BLFS systemd Maintainer > -- > http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/lfs-support > FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html > Unsubscribe: See the above information page > > Do not top post on this list. > > A: Because it messes up the order in which people normally read text. > Q: Why is top-posting such a bad thing? > A: Top-posting. > Q: What is the most annoying thing in e-mail? > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Posting_style
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