[TriLUG] Linux From Scratch

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Jeremy Davis via TriLUG wrote:

> TriLUG,
>
> Has anyone from TriLUG ever built Linux from Scratch (LFS)?

Hi Jeremy,

I tried it in the early days. It looked really neat.

Building it was slow, and all I was doing was following a recipe and 
building packages. I didn't really have much of an idea where I was in the 
global picture of building a distribution, there was just so much busy 
work. After a couple of days on and off of building packages and coming to 
the realisation that I was a long way from completion and that I could 
have installed my current distribution again, several times in that time, 
and that if it didn't boot (or work), I would have no where to go for 
help, I gave up.

Perhaps it would have been better to encourage me, by building the parts 
needed to boot the machine first, even if you didn't get a shell to login, 
but even that requires a bit of code. In the old days you could boot off a 
floppy. Getting that part to work can't have taken a couple of days. 
Next you could install login and bash. Next libc, libtools, and a compiler 
and then you could built LFS on your new LFS machine.

Then one day you would walk in and realise it was alive and scentient, 
upgrading itself and writing its own code.

Joe

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