Newbie

equilibrium · 08-16-2004, 12:57 PM

hi im a newbie to LFS i was wiondering would there be some sort of file where i can donwload that consists of al the packages instead of going to freshmeat and downloading one by one. If not could you tell the most important packages that i should download or are they all important.

320mb · 08-16-2004, 01:06 PM

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Originally posted by equilibrium
. If not could you tell the most important packages that i should download or are they all important.

yes, you do need all the packages listed in the book as well as all the patches..............

here is a link for the patches you need......be it LFS 5.0 or 5.1 or 5.1.1

http://linuxfromscratch.idge.net/patches/lfs/

<edit/> here is a link for a tarball of all the packages of LFS 5.1

ftp://ftp.linuxfromscratch.org/pub/lfs/lfs-packages/

equilibrium · 08-16-2004, 03:44 PM

um i need a user name and password for that, i guess i should sign up...

equilibrium · 08-16-2004, 03:48 PM

its not working, it needs a user name and pass i tried logging in as annonymous it doesnt wokring got any clue?

Cerbere · 08-17-2004, 07:24 AM

Worked just fine for me simply by clicking on the link (in Mozilla). I didn't even have to enter a user/pass.

How did you spell 'anonymous' ? ;-)

Enjoy!
--- Cerbere

equilibrium · 08-17-2004, 01:31 PM

with two n's duuuuuh

EwanG · 08-17-2004, 01:33 PM

Probably the quickest way to get up and running is to start with the CD ISO at:
http://stockwith.co.uk/iso/

Of course you'll still need "the book" to understand how to take the partial system that gives you and make it into a complete standalone system (need to chroot properly, need to populate the dev directory, need to build a kernel, etc), but it gets you quite a ways in short order.

FWIW,
Ewan

insyte · 08-18-2004, 02:12 PM

Try this link

This already includes all the packages and patches. Just hope this ftp is not down.

equilibrium · 08-19-2004, 04:10 AM

Um i think that only contains the packages and not the patches, anyway what do the patches do...

insyte · 08-19-2004, 11:34 AM

well I'm not sure if that's the exact file I downloaded, but the .tar file I got included the patches and the kernel 2.4.26 source.

Well the patches are important because you'll use them along the way.

BTW just finished my LFS system just now.

equilibrium · 08-19-2004, 02:06 PM

Was it hard to make LFS? and are there any special features in your LFS? heh give us a screenshot we can admire...

insyte · 08-20-2004, 12:03 AM

It wasn't hard if you stick to the book. Well as for the screen shot, I don't know what command to use or program to download for the console. It's just a base install, will install Xorg, but I want to put in some form of package management, at least for the additional software I plan to install.

equilibrium · 08-20-2004, 06:04 AM

well if you're thinking of adding protage as this "some" kind of package management then just download gentoo. You need beyond linux from scratch to install X and i think it uses XFree and not Xorg. Would you know the difference between beyond lfs5.0 and blfs5.1?

insyte · 08-20-2004, 12:45 PM

Ah check out the BLFS manual Xorg is supported

I plan to use the package management scripts found in the hints section of LFS.

Don't know the difference between the two, probably the packages that are recommended.