From 33ea9e926c8167fa94935d33bcbd7c15cf111f7d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Alex Gronenwoud Date: Wed, 5 Nov 2003 22:26:39 +0000 Subject: Merging chapter 3 files. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@3064 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689 --- chapter03/creatingpart.xml | 40 ---------------------------------------- 1 file changed, 40 deletions(-) delete mode 100644 chapter03/creatingpart.xml (limited to 'chapter03/creatingpart.xml') diff --git a/chapter03/creatingpart.xml b/chapter03/creatingpart.xml deleted file mode 100644 index f60d7489e..000000000 --- a/chapter03/creatingpart.xml +++ /dev/null @@ -1,40 +0,0 @@ - -Creating a new partition - - -In order to build our new Linux system, we will need some space: -an empty disk partition. If you don't have a free partition, and no room -on any of your hard disks to make one, then you could build LFS on the -same partition as the one on which your current distribution is installed. -This procedure is not recommended for your first LFS install, but if you -are short on disk space, and you feel brave, take a look at the hint at -. - -For a minimal system you will need a partition of around 1.2 GB. -This is enough to store all the source tarballs and compile all the packages. -But if you intend to use the LFS system as your primary Linux system, you -will probably want to install additional software, and will need more space -than this, probably around 2 or 3 GB. - -As we almost never have enough RAM in our box, it is a good idea to -use a small disk partition as swap space -- this space is used by the kernel -to store seldom-used data to make room in memory for more urgent stuff. -The swap partition for your LFS system can be the same one as for your host -system, so you won't have to create another if your host system already uses -a swap partition. - -Start a disk partitioning program such as cfdisk -or fdisk with an argument naming the hard disk upon -which the new partition must be created -- for example -/dev/hda for the primary IDE disk. Create a Linux native -partition and a swap partition, if needed. Please refer to the man pages of -cfdisk or fdisk if you don't yet -know how to use the programs. - -Remember the designation of your new partition -- something like -hda5. This book will refer to it as the LFS partition. -If you (now) also have a swap partition, remember its designation too. These -names will later be needed for the /etc/fstab file. - - - -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf