Hi folks,

I was thinking of building from scratch using an old P2 notebook with only 6GB HDD. What I want to do is not to have an old version around as a base to start building as I have no guts to rm anything from the old version after installation of the new version is completed - Limited resources.

What I have on this machine now is Redhat 9.0 (2.24.0-8). I tried to upgrade to 2.24.31 but realised that the older version is still around. Therefore, if I could, I would prefer to scratch build.

Anyone can help or point me to somewhere I can get more informaton?

Thanks.

wongster

NOTE: All the information you seek is in the LFS documentation, which you will need to read properly if you want any chance of a successful build.

Personally, if you have another, and more importantly faster, Linux machine I would build it on a partition - even if it is just a loop back - on that machine, tar.bz2 it up and un-tar.bz2 it on to the machine you want it on.

IIRC it took me ~8-12 hours to build (using ALFS) on a Celeron 2K with 512Mb ram... so probably a few days on a P2.

A 3Gb partition should be ok, but I use 5Gb to be safe.

Thanks for your input. That was quick.

I believe in the process of doing it, I'll learn more about Linux. What you brought up about using another system to build, tarred it, and untarred it on the target machine really interest me. I read something like that in the opening of an online doc but the doc did not follow thru' on the topic. Can I do it using the same machine with Redhat existing first, then move it on a CDROM, reformat the harddisk and move it back? Any site(s) with good information (step by step if possible) that I can refer to?

An alternative is to try to install 2.6.9 on the Pentium 2 and "uninstall" the 2.4.20. Is this possible?

Wongster

Hi folks,

My apology. My existing kernel version should read 2.4.20-8. Fingers a little retarded today operating at different speed ;>

Wongster

LFS Testing (version 6), mentions a bootable CD-ROM that has all the things you need. However, I can't find where you can get the ISO 9660 filesystem image.

hey guys you can get the bootabe LFS 6.0 ISO here

http://www.stockwith.co.uk/