I've seen the text on stopping and resuming, and other things ... I've looked through the site for quite a while, but I was wondering if there's a real good, easy way to do it so that you can just stop when you want, and get back to where you were quickly.

The livecd documentation discusses a hibernation method whereby the system state is saved to the new swap partition...

Can't link to the documentation page as this is my first post - will post it in follow-up

The link to that doc page:
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/live...mentation.html

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hint...and-resume.txt

It's quite old and I haven't looked over the whole thing.
I used the part for "getting back in" at Ch6 once,
but I usually keep my PC running to the end.

I've kept my PC running, I was just wondering if there were real easy ways to do it - I think the hibernation one would be it. I'm real far into it now, I just slept today with it on. I was more worried about something happening like my power going out or any other problems, if maybe that stop and resume hint (the text file) wasn't a little outdated and would force me to try and think through it all step by step to make sure I resume correctly - maybe I'd overlook something. Mostly wondering if I did it again in the future, maybe ... I guess the hibernation is good.

I don't know of any comprehensive resume write-up, but if you tell me where you stop (ch6.61) then I can tell you exactly how to resume.

Last time I built an LFS, I was working in a Virtual Box off a Windows XP system, using the LFS Live CD image as the host.

What I did was write up a quick shell script and stored it on the new system's drive. The script set the LFS environment variable, bind-mount the required system mounts, and chroot into the system I was building. All I had to do was boot the host, mount the new system's drive, run the script, and resumed building!