Hi,

I want to copy the LFS 6.7 sources tarball from a CD to the /mnt/lfs/sources directory on the HDD. How do I do this since I am running from LFS LiveCD 6.3 ?

I have one IDE HDD as primary master
one IDE DVD writer as primary slave

My HDD partitions are

SDA1 linux swap
SDA2 linux

I am new to linux but have used it before.

Regards
olcal

Hi,

The LFS 6.3 liveCD holds the packages for LFS 6.3, not LFS 6.7.

After you boot from the LFS liveCD (which is a fully working linux environment) download the packages (one tarball) from here: LFS Packages
Untar it in the $LFS directory (the sources directory is part of the tarball).

You could also download the tarball using another OS and put it on a USB stick, which can be used after you boot from the liveCD.

Hope this helps.

Hi

Thanks for the reply.

I have downloaded the LFS 6.7 source tarball and burnt it to a CD. What I want to do is...

1) Unmount and eject the LFS 6.3 LiveCD
2) Insert and mount the LFS 6.7 tarball CD
3) Copy the LFS 6.7 tarball from the CD to the /mnt/lfs/source directory on HDA 2
4) Unmount and eject LFS 6.7 tarball CD
3) Re-mount the LFS 6.3 LiveCD

Is my procedure correct ?
If yes, what is the procedure and the commands to carry this out ?

The LFS LiveCD I'm using is lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2160-min which has no sources.


Regards
Olavo

Hi,

Why so complicated? Can't you put the tarball on an usb stick, it is less the 300 Mb....

I'm not even sure if you can unmount the livecd you boot from (never tried that myself, but I doubt it).

I would suggest:

- Boot from the liveCD,
- Do chapter 2 (LFS 6.7 Book, I do assume you read the first parts!),
- Instead of chapter 3.2 and 3.3: Mount usb stick, copy files to $LFS/sources (as created in 3.1) and unmount usb stick,
- Continue with chapter 4.

If a package is missing from the tarball you can use the wget command to fetch it.

Hope this helps.

Unmounting and ejecting the CD a live-system runs from is only supported by distributions that copy themselves to RAM and run from there, like Puppy or Slitaz. The LFS cd cannot do that.

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@TobiSGD: That's what I assumed, thanks for the confirmation

I was assuming that the LFS LiveCD was running from RAM. I had used Puppy Linux and Damn Small Linux before and therefore wrongly assumed the same applied to LFS LiveCD. Thanks for pointing out my mistake.

I also took your advice an copied the contents via USB flash drive.

Once again thank you.

On a separate note, I've decided to first install & use Slackware. Once I'm familiar with it (commands, shell scripts, compiling etc.) I will come back to LFS. I think I'm still too "raw" to attempt LFS.

Hi,

You're welcome