Le vendredi 16 août à 20:46, inquiring.m...@hushmail.com a écrit : > 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.
Hi. To buld LFS, a minimal knowledge about linux is required. You should know how to get the packages :-) > 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. The grml livecd based on debian was fine except you had to change from zsh to bash but I don't know about it now. Have a look at <http://grml.org/> > 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. You need gdisk. -- Ph. Delavalade -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
