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So, who here has actually completed an LFS install? My little bro and I dicked with it a while back, but got bored quickly - not because of the distro, but because we were having an installfest weekend, and even though it was being installed on a dedicated box, we just ran out of steam before we got very far. I'm wondering how many folks here have actually done the entire LFS or BLFS install, and ended up with something they liked. I'm thinking about fooling with it again sometime in the future.

I've never tried LFS myself. How would you say it compares to a stage 1 Gentoo install?

I couldn't say - like I said, we didn't get very far. What we did get through was pretty similar though - more or less a lot of mounting and compiling base stuff to begin with. I Imagine an LFS install is a lot more difficult to actually finish than gentoo. I'm probably not cut out for either, really - ABS or repoman are as close as I get these days.

Snarkout wrote:So, who here has actually completed an LFS install? My little bro and I dicked with it a while back, but got bored quickly - not because of the distro, but because we were having an installfest weekend, and even though it was being installed on a dedicated box, we just ran out of steam before we got very far. I'm wondering how many folks here have actually done the entire LFS or BLFS install, and ended up with something they liked. I'm thinking about fooling with it again sometime in the future.

I did a couple installs around version 3.something, and a version 4 install.

It's pretty similar to Gentoo (only more basic). You use an existing install to set up a partition, then start building a toolset in that partition. Once you get enough stuff built, you chroot into the new partition and rebuild the toolset using itself, then build the rest of the system from source.

It's basically a lot of copying packages, then './configure && make && make install'. If you have the install guide in one terminal and your working system in another you can cut and paste build instructions to make things quicker. I found it pretty difficult to stop in the middle of an install then pick it up later.

It's fun to do, but I don't think I'd ever use it as a working system. Once you're done, you've got a very limited system, but it would be fun to play with and build up.