Re: LFS meets goals AND constraints?

Ken Moffat wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 19, 2015 at 10:26:49AM -0500, Richard Owlett wrote:
>>
>> You put a "sanity filter" on my question <GRIN>. If physical Live-CD's are
>> not available, I do specifically want an image of one. Apparently Oregon
>> State University has it available at
>> http://ftp.osuosl.org/pub/lfs-livecd/lfslivecd-x86-6.3-r2145.iso .
>>
> Missed that item when I was skimming the thread.  Please, do not use
> it - it is too old to build recent versions of LFS.

*ROFL* <giggle, giggle>
Where did I even suggest being "recent" was relevant ;/
But it will likely make you comfortable to know that while at the 
library downloading the ISO of the 6.3 LiveCD, I also downloaded 
the tar of 7.7 .

>
> To be honest, if you have enough space

Have a nearly empty 1TB external USB connected drive ~2 ft. to 
left ;)

>  on the hard disk (say 40GB or
> more) then you might as well install debian (perhaps the pre-systemd
> version) or ubuntu, but go fo "expert" partitioning : /boot,
> somewhere for that distro (10GB if it is only to bootstrap LFS,
> maybe double that if you think you might keep it), two partitions
> for LFS (current and next - assuming you stay with it for some time
> and makesubsequent builds), and shared /home.  For the LFS systems,
> 5GB each should be adequate for trying it out, 15GB each allows a
> pretty-full desktop (yes, I know you said you wanted to start with a
> minimal system, but available space is always useful).

In actuality, I have a laptop with 75GB drive dedicated to my 
Linux experiments and have installed Debian so many times that 
I'm on my 10th version preseed.cfg :)

>
> And just in case it isn't clear - for LFS we recommend that you
> build a new system when the time comes to upgrade.

I'm interested in lfs solely as a personally instructive tool.

>
> ĸen
>

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