[TriLUG] Linux From Scratch

[Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG]

On Thu, 27 Feb 2025, Joseph Mack NA3T via TriLUG wrote:

> 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.

and giving you stock picks

Joe

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