Hello all!!

I was reading some of these posts and I checked out LFS at the site and read a few pages of the book. Before I invest a bunch of time figuring all this out I was wondering if I could ask a simple question, that is probably in the LFS book somewhere?

Is it possible to make LFS on one machine so that it could be copied to a disc and loaded on to a bare HDD in a different machine.

I realize this would be considerably more work as you would have to integrate an installer package and a config routine, but it would be kinda cool, because you could use legacy hardware and have lean linux that would be crafted to taste.

Just wondering.

Yes it's possible and not even that hard. You don't really need installers and such things.

Here's how you could do it:

Install LFS by the book in /mnt/lfs - you can burn /mnt/lfs to a cdrom and even make it bootable (see hints on making bootable LFS cd's at http://hints.linuxfromscratch.org) and simply copy all the files to a harddisk from that cd.

Yes, it is possible. For me it is typical way to install LFS on old-CPU (f.ex. 486) machines. I am compiling all using my CPU (Athlon XP) and next use the HD in the slow machine. The last step is to make the the system bootable.
This way I am able to safe (up to 80%) time.

ok.

I think you are saying. Compile and setup you LFS on you main mahine set up your HDD from you old hardware formatted but blank, configured as slave and copy LFS to it ?

The easiest way is to take the drive from the old-CPU machine put into the new-CPU box, mount as let's say /mnt/lfs next compile the LFS (remember about proper --march compilere option!).
But if you wish you can do the same in directory on the original harddrive and next copy to the hd in old-CPU box.