Ive got a few question before i try this? Ive got 3 distro mandrake 10 redhat9 and my current one i use slackware, If i want to use the mandrake 2.6 kernel that came with it will this affect my LFS is anyway e.g. will it come up with mandrake when i start it or anythin, ok what im getting at is can i use the software allready on my other distros cds' coze ive got a slow pc connection so i cant really download anything big, and can i make the file managment .tar.gz because i like it or do i have to use .deb or what. It says in the book that you need at least 1.2 gigs for a distro is this trure ive got a powerful pc and a slower old pc and wanted to make a small distro for my old pc that can run fluxbox etc. O.k. u get the idea of wat i want to do please help me.

no, you do not want to use anything that has been precompiled to put into LFS, because you would end up with a myriad of random programs looking in all sorts of places for linked libraries; the reason you compile from source and/or follow the LFS book is to get your programs running nicely together

especially with the kernel.... you definitely just don't want to pull a non-standard kernel (such as out of mandrake) and slop it into a new distro... it wouldn't work unless you knew exactly how the modifications in the kernel will affect the rest of the system

if you just want to pull the kernel source from slackware's cd, you can do that (i don't think the kernel 2.4.22 would make any difference); but definitely compile it on your own

also, if you have a faster computer, why not just do some cross-compiling? ie, compile on your faster computer with the configuration of your slower pc... lots of guides on the net for that

and to finish: if you just want a small distro for a slow computer: just install one of your current distros (preferably slack) and just install only the things that are absolutely necessary; or, if you don't want to compile, download an older version of slackware so that it is more friendly with your slow pc (you can go as far back as slack 3.3)