Hi,
I'm trying setup my system from scratch, but even after reading the LFS book, i'm just not able to go ahead. The principle problem is, how do I go about with thing from the beginning? Is using the LFS disk essential for the purpose, coz I thought LFS can be build using any distro.
Secondly, if I don't have any system preinstalled, how can I do the configuring and conpiling jobs? (i.e. how will the packages be built without ant tools preinstalled?) . I really want to install everything from source for the satisfaction that it gives and extreme configurability. Please advise.

you need to have a "mother hen" system already running, although afaik this could be a livecd like Knoppix. and naturally you need to disc too, which holds the source packages and such.

ButI already have all the required sources in a cd. What I'm asking is that do I need the cd that LFS provides, in that does it contain any separate boot files and such?

No. The LFS live cd does have all the sources for the packages your building, as well as Xwindow and firefox to read the book while working.
http://lfs.osuosl.org/lfs/view/6.0/c...01/bootcd.html

IIRC all that is REQUIRED is a 2.6.x kernel and gcc 3.2 or higher on the host system.

Wow, thanks, pal. It had become really confusing. Thanks for the enlightenment.