[conspire] Setting Up Partitions for LFS

[Breen Mullins]

* Mark Srebnik <msrebnik at earthlink.net> [2008-03-24 19:35 -0700]:

>THANK YOU, David, for taking the time to provide a very helpful and clear
>reply. I think I understand how this works much better now...
>
>FWIW, yes, LFS, is LinuxFromScratch... Got the LFS book from Cheapbytes.com
>last week. Read an interesting article about it in a recent Linux Pro
>magazine (March 08, issue 88).
>
>While it will probably be a fair amount of aggravation to get through it, I
>think that I'll learn a lot by doing it....

Yes, you can learn a lot from building an LFS system. 

But I'd start with a stock distro system - Fedora, Ubuntu, you name it.
And spend some time really understanding that one. Read the initscripts. 
All of them. Then read the config files in /etc, and the stuff in 
/usr/doc. You'll be surprised at how many times you say "I didn't know 
_that_ was in there!".

You're not doing that to learn everything - but if you spend a few
weekend days in the exercise you'll have a good overview of what's in
your system of choice. And the LFS installation will make more sense,
and you'll get more out of it than you would by following a cookbook set
of instructions. 

My .02

Breen
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Breen Mullins
Menlo Park, California