I don't know if we mention this in the book, although something about multiple partitions springs to mind. This is just a heads up to anyone who attempts to do the same.
I like to spread my system over multiple partitions, and I typically give about 500M to / as it rarely needs any more than that; this means that creating the tools structure and then building the actual filesystem is a bit of a squeeze. To get around this, I put tools into /usr, then symlink /mnt/usr/tools to /mnt, and symlink /mnt/tools to /. This all works fine until it's time to chroot into it, and then it might complain about not being able to find certain files. This is because the /mnt/tools symlink is pointing to /mnt/usr/tools rather than usr/tools, and when you chroot into it the symlink is relative to the root of your chroot environment. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
