mirroring LFS CD

itsjustme · 07-17-2003, 04:29 PM

I guess this isn't specifically an LFS question, but I am about to start my LFS project (finally) and I'll be using a P-II 400 system with slackware 9.0 and I simply want to 'mirror', or, well, copy all of the files from, the CD onto the slackware filesystem to speed up the process a little.

Is that as simple as doing a:

cd /mnt/cdrom
cp -r * /bigpartitiononharddrive

Or something similar?

I suppose I could just copy the packages directory, but I don't want to miss anything and I want to eliminate the cdrom drive from the process.

Hmmm, but, it looks like maybe just copying the packages directory is all I'll need for this, eh?

All advice welcome.

thanks...

fancypiper · 07-17-2003, 04:53 PM

If you have the iso images, you can mount them.

# Generate an ISO from a CD
dd if=/dev/cdrom of=foo.iso
# Mount CD iso images
mount /path/to/foo.iso /mnt/iso/ -t iso9660 -o ro,loop=/dev/loop0

itsjustme · 07-17-2003, 05:25 PM

I don't have the ISO. I purchased the book and CD from linuxfromscratch.org.

Maybe I'm just giving this too much pre-thought.

I'm thinking now that the CD is just to facilitate getting the packages for us 56K captives. So, now all I think I need to do is copy the packages directory from the CD to my slack system. I assume that will eliminate the need for the packages to be compiled from the CD and speed up the process a little on that slower machine. It's no biggie I reckon. Maybe I'll discover all this on my own as I go through the book, I just wanna be prepared from the start.

Also, when I setup slackware I created an /LFS partition, /dev/hda11, (as opposed to /mnt/lfs as I now see that the book uses) and it's 10Gigs. I don't see why I can't just copy that packages directory there, /LFS/packages, and work from there rather than from /mnt/cdrom. Or, maybe these source files need to separate from the LFS partition for some reason.

Oh, and for anybody with similar experience, what kind of SBU factors am I going to be looking at on a P-II 400 machine? Am I in for some 2 day compiles?

thanks...

fancypiper · 07-17-2003, 06:32 PM

I showed you how to make an ISO of the CD, BTW, which I still think would be the fastest way to get it on the hard disk. If you have a working Linux distro, try it, you might like it.

Another way is to tar it over.

Mount the cd then:

Code:

[root@fancypiper root]# cd /mnt/cdrom
[root@fancypiper source]# tar cf - . | (cd /mnt/destination && tar xBfp -)