Sorry for asking an O/T question here, but -chat seems to be full of people who don't actually use LFS (judging from replies I've seen there in the past few months).
I've got a new machine, for building and testing. In the past, I have always used older LFS versions to bring up current ones, and copied a recent binary LFS from another machine for the first time. This time, I would like to be able to use distros (different from what other people are using to test) to build release candidates. Ideally, I want to be able to install/replace these in the future, telling them to only use their own partition, and then I can chainload them from grub. Among other things, it has been suggested that the distro controlling /boot (LFS) needs to be installed first. But at the moment I'm using the spinning-rust drive as a test run, before I install a smaller SDD, and since I had no bootloader I could let the first distro install one. So, I put some GPT partitions on the drive, with 4 50 GiB ones reserved for distros, and then the first 15 GiB partition for LFS. Then I tried to install. First up was mint - this went to the partition I pointed it to, and installed grub on the disk. I did not see any option for not installing the bootloader. But I know that other people are testing with 'buntu-derived distros, so I'll probably let this distro go. Then I tried to install OpenSuSe Leap : that was from a magazine disc (Linux Format), not from the huge full DVD. It started by proposing a new partitioning system, with loads of partitions, and I was unable to get rid of all of them. When I tried to edit manually, it would not let me use '/' as the mountpoint, that was already taken. Google found a few posts implying that OpenSuSe does not play nicely in a multi-distro install, but perhaps that is only for a single-drive. Whatever, I could not persuade it to install where I wanted. I'm not averse to downloading the full official OpenSuSe DVD ISO, but I suspect it is likely to have the same problem and I begrudge burning useless DVDs. After that I tried Fedora 23 : there is an article on t'web from a while ago about chainloading an older version of Fedora - basically, stop at installing the bootloader. Unfortunately, Fedora insisted on creatig a new partition (I did not spot that at the time - I had asked for 50 GiB and got the same) - that implies I cannot install it onto an existing partition. Also, there was no question about installing a bootloader, it went ahead and did it. Finally : does anybody have any experience of installing Fedora, OpenSuSe, or any other current rpm-using distro *after* LFS, to an existing partition ? I'm beginning to think I might just put distros on the traditional HD, if necessary erasing it each time, and only install one at a time - but that seems a bit of a waste. After I had made sure I could set up Mint as-needed, and then Fedora, I went back to using SystemRescueCD and installed the LFS binary. Now I've got 7.8 installed and mostly working (audio not yet tested), so I will be able to copy that (or a new build) to the SSD when I'm clearer about exactly how I'm going to procede. So at least some of this is going ok. Yes, I did get the usual "I didn't expect that" items, e.g 'make' segfaulting when chrooted from SystemRescueCD - fortunately I already had the right ethernet driver as a module in the binary I had copied and I had installed LFS's grub from chroot : 'make' is fine after booting. Fun, ain't it. Sorry (but only a little) for rambling ĸen -- This email was written using 100% recycled letters. -- 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
