Which LiveCD should i use to install LFS?
 

I have an old tired laptop from 2008 but working on intel core 2 duo t5550 and there is a flash drive for 4 gb (and 8 gb but I don't use it, despite the fact that it kind of works). What LiveCD do you recommend me to install LFS (even without graphics) to have everything I need to install the system? Maybe this question has already been asked on the forum, but I am not an exception.

I just registered here so I don't know the ins and outs of the forum. I don't think I'll abandon my account.

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If the laptop does not have a least 8GB ram and a working internal drive then I don't suggest using it since it will be really really slow. The process requires at least a 10GB partition to build LFS.

You can build it using a liveCD like debian which ISO files are less then 4GB but I would install it to hard drive if possible.

https://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs...ble/index.html

Hopefully hazel and others with more experience building LFS will chime in.

I also forgot tell that in notebook installed the formally 50 gb ssd because first 50 gb with bads. So it may be a little bit faster.

You can easily install debian with a desktop and have sufficient space for LFS with 50GB. I suggest reading the LFS documentation.

What i do. I write debian minimal in usb stick with ventoy. then i boot from it and by ssh and lfs book perform installation.

And so, i was closing this thread because the question is solved

Moin,

Booting some more or less crappy linux distro on the target and then login via ssh is also how i usually build LFS on "new" Hardware. To avoid problems during build, i strongly recommend performing the version-check.sh test in "host system requirements" (chpt.2) and really resolve any problems, if there are any, before proceeding.
Also: don't do the final stripping in chapter 8 over ssh, if you booted already from LFS. Doing this will cut the ssh connection and leave a damaged libz file.

cheers,
WK

Another possibility is to use CLFS on another computer to build a "starter system" which you then tar up and copy over to your laptop. I once did that just out of curiosity. It was a bit laborious but it worked.

If you are building from a live host, I wouldn't recommend Debian. It has a few incompatibilities with LFS which need to be fixed before you start building. Maybe better to use something like Liveslak because Slackware itself is definitely a good LFS host.

Well, you can additionally install missing dependences and continue build LFS. So i think that Debian minimal live cd isn't that bad to build system

The main things you need to do are to install gawk (Debian uses mauk by default) and make sure the system shell sh is a symbolic link to bash and not to dash.

I installed gawk. Installed all needed libs.

You could try this:
https://github.com/KeithDHedger/LFSBootCD

It will build a 10.1 LFS system, there is an iso in the releases ( you will need to join it up, it's in 3 parts ).
The iso contains all the source archives as well.

Or you can build from the git repo.

Good luck and welcome to LFS!