While it would take longer on a netbook than an 8 threaded desktop, the LFS book breaks down each build into relative time units called SBU's (Standard Build Units) so you will have a rough idea of build time for each piece.

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/...aboutsbus.html

http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/about.html

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Thanks

Hi,

You could always use another faster machine as the build system then move things to the netbook.

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Nah. I'm building it on a Pentium III now. One SBU on this computer is 12 minutes.

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Building now using Slackware-Current as a host.
No problems so far.

Compile times are much faster than I thought they'd be.

Here are my notes from building LFS. I keep meaning to tidy them up, but hopefully you can get something useful from them.

@piratesmack Here's a snippet that might interest you:

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Hi all,

I've compiled and formatted my build notes and posted them to my blog. It's about 3,700 words, so I had to split the notes into three blog posts:

Part 1

Part 2

Part 3

I'm interested in any feedback. I'm working on an LFS 6.7 build now.

Regards,

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Wow. Thanks for posting your notes, Drew. I'll be looking forward to any updates, too, since it will be December before I can play with this. (I can't believe 2/3 of October's already gone!) I appreciate your work in documenting everything.

Success!

I finished my LFS build today, using Slackware-Current as the host (only updated to Oct 16th). A couple package versions were higher than the LFS book recommended, but I didn't run into any problems.

I did almost everything like the book said, but I used kernel 2.6.35.7 instead of 2.6.35.4 and Grub4dos instead of Grub2.

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Congrats! It feels pretty good to boot into a system you built yourself, doesn't it?

Regards,

I've built LFS a couple times before but it's been a few years now, so I downloaded 6.7 and will try it this weekend. This thread is inspiring. The challenge will be to get the wireless working.

Ok, I'm in...

This'll be my fourth trip down this rabbit hole and I learn more every time. If I had a kid, this is what I'd give her/him to play with. See what you can do with THIS erector set!

I first found Linux looking for something else. Patrick was looking for a free Lisp interpreter, I was looking for a free C compiler.

But I've had no need in school or work to know Unix.

After snooping around Red Hat 6 for a while (it's what everyone was using at the time), I just focused on C and Perl. I still didn't understand the environment I was working under.

I was delighted to find Linux From Scratch. After several false starts, I finally got into it, though I don't think I even finished the book the first time.

The main thing this does is get you really familiar with the basic 'configure - make - make install' workflow for installing software from source.

I'm a bit disappointed that the book doesn't really explain exerything (Gawk is described as a "program for manipulating text files" - yeah, so is Emacs and so is Perl), but it does SHOW you everything.

It provokes questions ("what is this M4 that so many programs need and why is sed being used so much and do I really need to install all these 'extras' like Perl and Tcl and Bison and...?") and has given me so much more to look into.

Over the years tinkering on and off with LFS I've become impatient with distributions that try to do everything automagically. When you hide the sharp edges the tool loses its effectiveness.

After futzing around with a dozen different distros I've finally come back to the beginning with Slackware. It is my experience with Linux From Scratch that has sold me so hard on Slackware. It's the only distro I've tried that doesn't get in the way.

Linux From Scratch showed me how it is done and Slackware showed me how it is done right. I need my system to be stable so that's my Slackware, but LFS is for fun, with the latest (though not bleeding edge) releases of tools.

Yeah. That's where I'm at -- mostly, anyway. There are folks who run LFS as their day-to-day systems. I'd like to try that on my secondary computer, where I'm building LFS 6.7 right now. Still, I think keeping track of security updates and so forth will be a lot more difficult than with Slackware.

Regards,

Hi all,

I made a few small edits to my LFS build notes:

Part 1

Part 2 -- a few enhancements to the section on chapter 6.6.

Part 3 -- more on Shadow. Please check my Bash code if you can.

Regards,