IraqiGeek’s Blog

My own Linux build

Yesterday, after a few delays, I finally finished my build of LFS (Linux From Scratch) and was able to successfully boot and login into this build. If you know LFS, you will already know that this is nothing big. Its not like I made your next Redhat or Suse distro. For those who dont know what LFS is, its just a base system build entirely from source code which can be used as a basis to build a full distro (provided that you have the time and the huge processing power resources) or a small task specific linux system.

Currently, I am continuing with the BLFS (Beyond Linux From Scratch) trying to make that base system usable for some real world applications.

One thing I want to do is build a root filesystem image and upload it on this blog so anyone who wants a base linux system for use in building their own linux system from the ground can download it without the need to reinvent the wheel like I did. One issue I am facing, is that the image I am getting from using dd is the size of the partition on which the system was built, even though du’ing that partition will reveal that I am using only 413MBs of space (which IMO is still too large considering that this is just a base system that can’t do any real world task). As soon as I figure out a way to build an image that reflects the size of the actual system on the disk, I will zip it, and upload it somewhere here on the website.