LFS attempts

[Robert Romito]

Once your LFS system is working, checkout 
http://beyond.linuxfromscratch.org for help with building up your LFS 
system.  My first attempt at LFS resulted in massive compile errors when 
I progressed to the chroot phase.  I'm sure I messed up one of the 
earlier commands or packages.  LFS involves a lot of typing!  Going to 
try again shortly.  I agree with John's advice on having something else 
to do while your LFS system compiles.  There are a lot of steps involved 
in LFS, but the book is organized so you can build small pieces at a 
time.  Very helpful if you can't dedicate an entire weekend to LFS.

JJ Neff wrote:

>Finally I got around to bringing my oldest computer (K6/2 266 128 Mb Ram) up to
>my spare room out of the cold damp basement.  I attached an old off color
>monitor, a keyboard that presents "./" everytime I push "/" and a 3 button
>serial mouse that you have to lean on the middle button to get it to work and
>when it does it takes 2 or 3 clicks as imput!
>
>But what fun, an old 4 Gb SCA SCSI srive and 50 pin adapter with Cdrom was all
>I needed.  I partitioned 500Mb for Mandrake 8.2 and did a minimum install, TO
>successfully install LFS I needed to manually install all the Development
>packages (make etc) and then I needed patch, gpm (to use the mouse to copy
>large commands from one console to the next - much easier than typing) 
>Anything else I needed I just added the RPM for the cds.  Since I run NIS and
>NFS I was able to login fom this very small install and mount my home drive and
>copy all the LFS files to the 3.5 Gb partition I had made just for LFS.  From
>there it was simply a matter of following the instructions in LFS 3.2.
>
>I was having a blast but sometimes got confused.  I was logged into tty1 as me
>reading the LFS3.2 manual in links (love links now that Iknow how to navigate
>well), in tty2 as user lfs actually doing the compiling and in tty3 as root to
>create any files or change permissions or add packages I may need.  I then
>relized I was going to need to chat on irc to get real time help, Hmm what to
>do, do I add BitchX or another IRC client to my space strapped mim install when
>Iknow its installed on my game machie ENTER SSH, on tty 4 I was ssh'd to my
>game machine and using BitchX to chat with other LFS users (a very friendly
>bunch of people (not one RTFM the whole time I was there :-)  Man I am learnign
>to love the cmd line, I wa able to switch back and forth from literlally
>machine to machine without moving form my spot! I also am much more comfortable
>with commands like "for x in {a...z}; do mkdir $x; done" or my favorite "for x
>in {a...z}; mv $x* $x/; done" THis allowed me to move all the seperate packages
>from one directory into individual directories that made them easier to find.
>
>Tonight or later this week I hope to actually start my LFS machine (with all
>statically linked software) in the LFS environment and recompile all the
>software as dynamic links.  Then hopefully I will know enough to be able to
>compile KDE3 (or maybe just cheat and comple a package manager and then use
>debs or rpms :-)
>
>
>If you truly want a feel for what software is actually necessary to make Linux
>run (where does ls, chmod, grep, mv, tar etc come from ) theh I highly
>recommend setting up an LFS box, but give yourself plenty of free time and keep
>a tv or reading material close by as soem packages can take 20 minutes to
>compile, in the downtime I tended to switch back to tty1 or 4 and read the docs
>or chat online.
>
>Sorry so long but it's a pretty fun experiment and I am excited to have a Linux
>Distro that is truly my own... Once I have the base up and running it's totally
>up to me what I put on, KDE ,gnome, Light wm ? 
>
>Even if you dont want to or have a spare box, I recommend reading the LFS 3.2
>documentation, It is an excellent reference for waht software provides what and
>what depends on what...
>
>
>JJN
>
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