On Wednesday 16 June 2010 16:23:09 Parmenides wrote: > There are some excellent distro actually, but not my favourite. They > will install many packages I do not need. What's more, I very like a > clean and fast linux and the console mode is enough. So, I choose the > LFS. Additionally, the LFS give me a chance to get familiar with Linux > more and more. Actually, I want to configure a virtual Linux running > on VMWare and play a server's role. But, the default settings make > automatical boot impossible.
What you are looking to change is 'hidden' inside the initramfs/initrd. For the purpose of learning, you can unpack the LiveCD, disassemble it, unpack the initramfs (or initrd, whichever it uses), adjust it as you desire, repack it and repack the CD (or pack it into a hard drive partition or image file for VMware/QEMU/etc.) I've done this many times while tweaking Smoothwall until I finally got udev and the initramfs archive to work as I wanted them to (read: learned how udev and initramfs really work). I did this with both the ISO image and tweaking the early boot stuff on the hard drive. Only unfamiliarity prevents you from unpacking the live CD and fiddling with it until it does what you want. Using the live CD is not optimal, but it can't be beat for hands-on learning. Once you dive into that, though, you are kind-of on your own; not many people grok isolinux, initramfs/initrd, and the early boot environment, and it's way outside of building Linux from scratch. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
