> On Sat, 2005-12-03 at 12:43 +0000, Ross wrote: > >I have just bought a new Dell dimension 3100 which had a SATA harddrive. >I wanted to follow the LFS book using the LiveCD but it wouldnt >recognise the HD. Hi, I had a similar problem. I use raid. It's kind of chicken and egg prob.
You probably have to compile a kernel first and put it on the cd to boot from. I'm not profissient with this but I managed to compile a kernel on my friend's pc and put it on slackware dvd. I used it to install slackware and used the slackware as host distro. Pretty round about way but at the time when I made that dvd I hadn't even looked at LFS live cd. But I guess you can do somethign similar with live cd too, there are instructions in the readme of the cd or sme where to put custom files on the cd. I hope it works for kernel too, also I remember seeing a live cd remastering hint on the hints collection. You might want to read through them. I haven't read them thouroughly. In essence what you might want to do is ( if you are new to kernel and stuff like me) 1.copy the /proc/config.gz file and gunzip it. 2.get the kernel source and in the config step ask it to load settings from different file and point it to the unzipped copy of /proc/config.gz ( This is not optimum but if you are lost in the miriad of choices like I was, this might be the way to play safe) 3. select [y]( Compile into the kernel) for required sata driver modules) 4.compile the kernel and get it on the cd some how. 5. Use it to build lfs. Subhash Chandra -- ╔════════════════════════════╗ ║I don't know how much of what I say is true ║ ╚════════════════════════════╝
-- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
