Hi Members,
I hope to begin the journey of learning to build my own LFS distro and
have been reading the Essential Pre-Reading Guide for Life with LFS
(over and over) as well as the LFS book itself. I'm beginning to
become familiar with all the terminology and would like some advice on
choosing a
Hi Members
> At this point, I'd rather install a dstro that LFS members recommend
> as being compatible with LFS "stable" book version 7.0.
Amended please. That should read, "At this point, I'd rather install a
host dstro that LFS members recommend as being compatible with the LFS
"stable" book v
On Sep 24, 2012, at 19:14 PM, Wally Lepore wrote:
> Hi Members,
>
> At this point, I'd rather install a dstro that LFS members recommend
> as being compatible with LFS version 7.0. I would like to utilize
> Debian as my host distro for the LFS build as many successful distro's
> seem to be forke
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 08:14:33PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote:
> Hi Members,
>
> I hope to begin the journey of learning to build my own LFS distro and
> have been reading the Essential Pre-Reading Guide for Life with LFS
> (over and over) as well as the LFS book itself. I'm beginning to
> become f
On 09/24/2012 09:03 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 08:14:33PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote:
>> Hi Members,
>>
>> I hope to begin the journey of learning to build my own LFS distro and
>> have been reading the Essential Pre-Reading Guide for Life with LFS
>> (over and over) as well as
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 8:30 PM, William Harrington wrote:
> This is almost asking like what kind of beer someone likes or what
> kind of food they like
> To build LFS, and with your system specs, any will do. I had a dual
> p3 1.4 tualatin system which built like a champ and pretty darn fast
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:03 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
> Umm, why ? Seriously, most people came here after either starting
> to loathe their current distro (can you say package management? :)
> or else because they were using a distro and wanted to learn more.
> Conversely, debian and its
> derivat
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 9:11 PM, Baho Utot wrote:
Hi Baho,
> I can wait to finish the base build of LFS-7.2 and get on to BLFS. This
> distros of late are just terrible!
By learning to build my own distro, I will soon discover (ok,
"someday" discover) "what makes a great distro" (IMHO). :-)
Reg
On Sep 24, 2012, at 20:19 PM, Wally Lepore wrote:
> William, I can't find that Debian iso link you recommend. I was at
> their site and did not see the link for "netinst i386". Can you please
> locate?
http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
Then: apt-get install bison flex m4 texinfo gawk ncurses-de
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:02 PM, William Harrington wrote:
> http://www.debian.org/CD/netinst/
>
> Then: apt-get install bison flex m4 texinfo gawk ncurses-dev && dpkg-
> reconfigure dash ( use bash for default shell)
>
> Then install telnet or openssh daemon to connect to it from a host
> where
I recently completed the LFS project and I successfully used Debian as my host
system. Don't remember where but I did find a Debian, one CD or maybe it was a
DVD I don't remember, install disk. --
http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support
F
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:28 PM, Garrett Gaston wrote:
>> I recently completed the LFS project and I successfully used Debian
>> as my host system. Don't remember where but I did find a Debian, one >> CD
>> or maybe it was a DVD I don't remember, install disk.
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 10:02 PM, W
>>On 09/24/12, Wally Lepore wrote:
>>
>>Hi William,
>>
>>Great. Thank you. Reading the link now.
>>
>>Ok, I've narrowed it down to two choices as a host distro for LFS.
>>
>>Debian or Slackware?
>>
>>Don't forget, I'm new and will have many questions as I study the book
>>and all sources :-)
>>
>>T
Hi Drew,
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 12:28 PM, wrote:
> I have sucessfully built LFS three times with Slackware as the host.
> Each time it was with the version that was released when I started
> building the most recent LFS. Right now I'm building LFS 7.1
> with Slackware 13.37 as the host.
Thank
Wally Lepore wrote:
> I still haven't loaded a distro
Then you are not ready for LFS yet. Load and use a distro, any distro,
for a while and then come back.
-- Bruce
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On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 01:29:58PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote:
>
> I've been reading and studying much and definitely look for as much
> support as possible with the chosen distro. I've been involved with
> computers for a long long time. I just started studying Linux about
> two months ago. I stil
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:29 PM Wally wrote:
>>I still haven't loaded a distro yet
On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 1:41 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Then you are not ready for LFS yet. Load and use a distro, any distro,
> for a while and then come back.
>
>-- Bruce
Hi Bruce,
Good point. Thank you
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>>On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 01:29:58PM -0400, Wally Lepore wrote:
>
>> I still haven't loaded a distro yet and I am simply
>> looking for a host distro that will give me the least conflict with
>> building an LFS distro.
> On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 3:51 PM, Ken Moffat wrote:
>
> LFS is arguably not a
Em 26-09-2012 17:54, Wally Lepore escreveu:
> I will be running windows and utilizing a host distro simultaneously.
> Thus I am using windows for my everyday computer tasks. Yes, I do
> prefer to utilize a host distro to also perform my everyday computer
> tasks but one step at a time for me as I
>On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> ...(continued) ...I believe this describes how you could make the transition.
>
> Easier distros:
> Ubuntu, Lubuntu (more similar to Windows), Mint, Mageia or OpenSUSE (it
> is no more OpenSuSE) would be better starting points.
>
> De
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2012 at 2:10 PM, Fernando de Oliveira wrote:
> Debian has "old" packages.
Hi Fernando,
I understand that old packages contain programs that have been updated
etc. but the Linux community seems to make this an important issue to
consider when choosing a distro.
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