i had fedora 5,and my system has only two partitions,one for windows and other is fedora 5,now i want to do linux from scratch ,without patitioning in fedora 5,for tht i installed user mode linux,can i do linux from scratch in tht use mode linux is it possible,can any one help me

I don't know if this answers your question, but you do not need a separate partition for LFS. A directory within an existing partition will suffice. I have personally not built LFS, but if the procedure is anything similar to CLFS (which I have built), then you will need about 4GB of free space on the partition. Of course, the final product will take a lot less space than that (probably around 400-600MB).

You will require root-privileges to build LFS.

Btw, what does "tht" mean? Would it kill you to spell out the word(s) instead of pretending like you are text-messaging? Just a mere pet-peeve of mine when I read this forum.

thanks for ur reply,so there is no need of separate partition for LFS,so if i do LFS my fedora wont be affected.but how it works can u tell me in detail. can i work on both.

I cannot say much about LFS, for as I stated earlier, I have not experimented with it. I have however built a CLFS system.

The CLFS guide "book" can be found here: http://cross-lfs.org/files/BOOK/1.0....1.0.0-x86.html

I built a CLFS system because I needed to compile applications/libraries to run on an i586 system. My host system is an i686.

Btw, there is a dedicated forum in LinuxQuestions.org for LFS (Linux From Scratch). If you have questions, you really should post them there.

Please post your thread in only one forum. Posting a single thread in the most relevant forum will make it easier for members to help you and will keep the discussion in one place. This thread is being closed because it is a duplicate.
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