I have a quick question about Linux from Scratch - Can one go through the process on a machine with no OS and a prepared thumb drive? I have a spare laptop right here… (or even an image on Ventoy)
I have a quick question about Linux from Scratch - Can one go through the process on a machine with no OS and a prepared thumb drive? I have a spare laptop right here… (or even an image on Ventoy)
You can do it from a live cd/usb just fine, but you’ll need to repeat some preparation steps (basically chapter 2 of the book) every time you boot the host.
The way I did was to install the host (I chose Debian) on a small partition on the disk, leaving most of the space for the LFS partition. Once the (B)LFS build was complete enough that I didn’t need the host anymore, I just removed its partition and expanded the LFS partition into the now unallocated space.