Re: [lfs-dev] LFS Live-CD Project

On 2024-12-07 03:16, Thomas Trepl wrote:
> Am Donnerstag, dem 21.11.2024 um 08:00 -0500 schrieb Rahul Chandra:
>> I think I brought this up last year, but with the recent surge in LFS
>> users and the slew of 'editor' projects, I wanted to gauge interest
>> for this project again.
>> 
>> As far as I can remember, the discussion last time around was that we
>> would have a book that can follow LFS but be done before BLFS that
>> shows how to build a live-iso.  It would contain 2 packages
>> (squashfs-tools and mtools) and require a couple packages from BLFS
>> (mainly libisofs and the initrd). With this I also want to improve the
>> current initrd implementation in BLFS (AFAIK no editor besides me uses
>> one)
>> 
>> If people are interested I'll start on this sometime this week and
>> hopefully finish up in a few weeks. I already made some progress here:
>> https://github.com/rahulc07/lfs-live-iso.  Let me know what you think.
>> 
> Thats pretty cool - i'll immediatly have a look to your repo.
> 
> On my wishlist there are only a few points written:
> I'd like so have (of course offering help to) get a cook-book on how to
> build a CD which 
> * is usable on BIOS as well on EFI
Done
> * finds itself to boot from
Done (nearly, doesn't support lookback support so you can't boot it from 
an already partitioned disk)
> * is only setup with tools we have in {,B}LFS
Nearly done, we could add mtools and squashfs-tools to BLFS or we can 
keep them in the same place as the rest of the LiveCD
> 
> I'd be very much interested in helping to get a "how-to-build-a-lfs-cd"
> written.


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Rahul

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