Hello and welcome. Feel as if at home. >On Fri, 16 Aug 2013 19:46:24 +0100 >inquiring.m...@hushmail.com wrote: > > Hello all, > > 1. I just saw the LFS site and would like to try it but can't see the > section that says how to download the source file packages ready to > work through the programme.
You either have to download them yourself, one at a time, or get yourself a copy of the LFS live CD which has them all in one place. However, I am pretty certain that the LFS live CD has not been maintained for some time and therefore the packages you can find on one will almost certainly be old. > 2. I'd also like to know which LIVE CD/DVD you can recommend to use > as a base that satisfies all the criteria from the script on the host > requirements page > (http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/stable/prologue/hostreqs.html) > as all the distro's I've chosen (major ones like Kubuntu, CentOS, > Gentoo, etc) all fail on one or more element. Some of them fail on > BISON while others on GCC, a package I suspect to be rather important > in this endeavour. As stated above, you can use the LFS live CD although it is rather old. The other alternative is to take a distro which is close to what you need and just add the missing stuff to it. > 3. I recently bought a new computer with no OS on it just for > installing Linux on it and learning more about it so LFS seemed to be > ideal. It's a new platform with UEFI instead of the older BIOS a 3TB > HDD. I read that on drives like this, the old fdisk tool is > insufficient but the only instructions I've seen in the manual are > for the older, fdisk programme. I read something about needing to > install a FAT32 partition at the start or something like that but > wasn't sure if this was right or not as I know that FS is quite > different to any *nix based filesystems. The fdisk manual page states that fdisk was, in fact, not designed for big partitions. It further states that one should use the more advanced GNU parted for such disks. Therefore, use parted. And I'm pretty sure you can ignore that "FAT32 at the start" part. -- You don't need an AI for a robot uprising. Humans will do just fine.
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