[conspire] Setting Up Partitions for LFS

[Mark Srebnik]

on 3/24/08 9:47 PM, Breen Mullins at breen.mullins at gmail.com wrote:

> * 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


Very sound advice, Breen. Thanks!