Creating image question

satimis · 10-03-2004, 07:21 AM

Hi folks,

FedoraCore 2
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I'm prepared to follow

Linux From Scratch
Version 6.0-testing-20040930
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/view...ting-20040930/

learning LFS. Kindly advise;

1) Whether this is the latest version
2) I'm not going to repartition the HD and prepared to
create the image on /home
$ df -Th

Code:

Filesystem    Type    Size  Used Avail Use% Mounted on
/dev/hdg2     ext3    5.6G  3.3G  2.1G  62% /
/dev/hdg1     ext3    105M  7.6M   92M   8% /boot
none         tmpfs    157M     0  157M   0% /dev/shm
/dev/hdg5     ext3    3.2G  395M  2.7G  13% /home

Is its space sufficient?

TIA

B.R.
satimis

320mb · 10-03-2004, 09:08 AM

Quote:

Originally posted by satimis

1) Whether this is the latest version

looks like it yes

Quote:

2) I'm not going to repartition the HD and prepared to
create the image on /home

with LFS you wont be creating an image, you will be creating a whole filesystem and installing all the programs
needed to boot to a command line...........
The BLFS book (beyond LFS) will enable you to install the X-server and a GUI and any other programs you want........
but you need LFS first before following BLFS

satimis · 10-03-2004, 11:06 AM

Hi 320mb,

Tks for your advice.

1)

Quote:

with LFS you wont be creating an image, you will be creating a whole filesystem and installing all the programs needed to boot to a command line...........

If it is only filesystem with GUI, I think /home will have sufficuilt space. But there will be 2 OS there, FC2 and LFS.

a) Can they co-exist?
b) After completion can I create an ISO image for LFS and install the same on another PC with blank HD ?

2)

Quote:

The BLFS book (beyond LFS) will enable you to install the X-server and a GUI and any other programs you want........

If 1)b) above established. Then I will continue BLFS on the new HD of another PC.

OR

If 1)b) above not established. That is I have to install X-server, GUI and other programs which I need on FC2. Afterwards can I create an ISO image of the new system for its installation on another PC?

BLFS - Is following link correct
http://www.sg.linuxfromscratch.org/b...nloads/stable/

Please advise.

TIA

B.R.
satimis

rdelinsky · 10-03-2004, 11:45 AM

You should have enough space on the /home partition. I'm using a 2.5G partition and after installing all the source, have only used 35% of the space allocated.

Instead of using a dedicated partition mounted as ' /mnt/lfs ' you could set-up a sub-dir in 'home'
as ' /home/lfs ' (instead of ' /mnt/lfs ') then export LFS="/home/lfs".

Create the dirs ' /home/lfs/source ' and ' /home/lfs/tools ', then the sym-link.

The compiles should work ok ...... although you'd be building in the user 'lfs' directory !!

Andrew Benton · 10-03-2004, 06:56 PM

I disagree, I think you should do it like the book says. You should make a partition and mount it on /mnt/lfs. If you want to use the partition you are currently using for /home then edit /etc/fstab so that it will be mounted at /mnt/lfs,
mkdir /mnt/lfs
then reboot