Compiling and Using LFS

Currently, LFS cleanly compiles on a 2.6.11 kernel.

Compiling LFS

• Get the LFS source from here. If you want to obtain the latest version, checkout from CVS as follows

      cvs -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/logfs login
      cvs -z3 -d:pserver:anonymous@cvs.sourceforge.net:/cvsroot/logfs co -r stable -P lfs 
      

• Change the KDIR to point to kernel headers dir, if you want to compile for a specific kernel.
• Enable debugging by uncommenting the #define DEBUG in include/lfs_kernel.h. However, this produces a lot of debugging output in syslog, and considerably slows your system.
• Run top level make
• If you want to compile the documentation, run make in the doc directory. latex needs to be installed for it to compile.

Using LFS

• Insert the kernel module

      /sbin/insmod lfs.ko
      

• Format a partition to be LFS

      lfsprogs/mklfs /dev/foo
      

• Mount it

      mount -t lfs /dev/foo /mnt/foo
      

• Check the file doc/cases for working scenarios, and start with testing them
• If you have gotten this far, you know what to do next :-) Just play with LFS, and let me know if you find any thing wierd.