Makeing a live cd to build lfs

spiky0011 · 04-15-2012, 02:00 AM

Hi

I see alot of ppl asking about live cd to build lfs, so I have put this together hoping it will help.

Using a live cd persistant debain 6.0.4
Download http://www.debian.org/CD/live/ I used the standard iso without gui, You dont need a gui
Make a partition on your harddrive/usb stick for persistent, Using what ever method you prefer, (gparted, parted) Of 180mb ext3 filesystem. Label it "live-rw" (The finished persistent partion uses 114mb)

This is to keep the cd persistent
Boot the live cd. When you get the debain boot screen hit the tab, After the word quite put a space and type in "persistent" (This must be done everytime when booting from the cd), Then hit enter.
This must be done everytime when booting from the cd.

Run the following commands

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sudo dpkg-reconfigure dash

Then answer NO (this will set bash as default)

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sudo apt-get install gawk

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sudo apt-get install bison

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sudo apt-get install make

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sudo apt-get install gcc

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sudo apt-get install bzip2

(thks Tobi)

Run version-check.sh on system to check host is compliant.
You can also install "links or lynx web browser" and "gpm" "for mouse" to help with copy and paste commands to build your lfs,
If you dont like vi editor you can install "vim,nano" etc

To change the keyboard layout

Code:

sudo dpkg-reconfigure keyboard-configuration

then follow the prompts for the desired keyboard.

Mordillo98 · 05-25-2012, 03:06 PM

Tks for the tip. I'm giving it a try right now.

yjy4321 · 08-30-2013, 12:28 PM

I am trying persistent mode with debian-live-7.0.0-i386-standard.iso.
Every time I reboot I typed "persistent" after quiet, it does not remember it. No bison, no make...
Is there a special way to reboot? I just simply do "sudo reboot"

Here is output from cfdisk.

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Name   Flags  Part Type  FS Type     [Label]    Size (MB)
---------------------------------------------------------
sda1          Primary    ext4                   29734.39
              Pri/Log    Free Space                 0.09*
sda5   NC     Logical    swap                    2289.05*
sda6   NC     Logical    ext3        [live-rw]    188.75*

Here is output from df. I skip some columns

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Filesystem ... Mounted on
rootfs         /
udev           /dev
tmpfs          /run
/dev/sr0       /lib/live/mount/medium
/dev/loop0     /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs
tmpfs          /lib/live/mount/overlay
tmpfs          /lib/live/mount/overlay
aufs           /
tmpfs          /run/lock
tmpfs          /run/shm

Here is output from mount. I did not type things inside ().

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sysfs on /sys type sysfs
proc on /proc type proc
udev on /dev tupe devtmpfs
devpts on /dev/pts type devpts
tmpfs on /run type tmpfs
/dev/sr0 on /lib/live/mount/medium type iso9660
/dev/loop0 on /lib/live/mount/rootfs/filesystem.squashfs type squashfs
tmpfs on /lib/live/mount/overlay type tmpfs
tmpfs on /lib/live/mount/overlay type tmpfs
aufs on / type aufs
tmpfs on /run/lock type tmpfs
tmpfs on /run/shm type tmpfs

basica · 08-30-2013, 06:12 PM

suse studio is better, you don't need to reconfigure anything. I have built an image for myself, it's easy to do. Ensure that all the packages you need are included in the image, then build and test it. If all good, you can then download the iso and use it.

spiky0011 · 09-01-2013, 10:18 AM

Hi yjy4321

I have just tried the debian-live-7.0.0-i386-standard.iso. and it wont hold the persistent as the 6.0.4 dose.

I have managed debian-live-7.0.0-i386-standard.iso persistant.

spiky0011 · 09-01-2013, 01:25 PM

Using debian-live-7.0.0-i386-standard.iso persistent

Download debian-live-7.0.0-i386-standard.iso

As post1 Create a partition of 180mb ext3, Label it persistence.

Then create a persistence.conf file on the partition, in the persistence.conf file add this line / union

Now boot Debain hit TAB at boot screen after the word initrd1.img, put a space and the word persistence

Then follow steps in post 1 with the exception of bzip which is now installed.

spiky0011 · 05-02-2016, 03:11 AM

Update for a live cd/dvd

I use Archex. It is a dual arch live dvd so will boot 32 and 64 kernals

https://sourceforge.net/projects/archex/

Run as live then run pacmann -Syy && pacman -S bison patch

anak_bawang · 05-02-2016, 04:55 AM

I'm using
-> debian-live-7.5.0-amd64-gnome-desktop.iso and
-> debian-live-7.5.0-i386-gnome-desktop.iso

as a live CD on VMWare to build
-> LFS-7.7 systemd
-> LFS-7.9 systemd

It works!!!

kcirick · 05-02-2016, 05:05 PM

I've mentioned this several times in the past but for some reason I'm not getting the positive reaction I expected. Salix OS is a Slackware derivative (in fact backwards compatible with Slackware), and they have a live edition.

Because it is Slackware, it has everything you need to build the LFS system out of the box. I've been using 14.1 XFCE live to do my LFS 7.8 and 7.9 builds (both Sysvinit and Systemd). All you have to do is burn or load onto a usb stick and away you go.