Installation

System Requirements

• Vanilla kernel 2.6.17.8 with applied lfs-patch as described in next section.
  • Large block devices (LBD) are supported
  • Large files are supported
• Recent version of glibc library is required (e.g., 2.3.6 from Debian Sarge or current 2.4). This is not important for compiling file-system but for using it. Some older libraries (e.g., 2.0.6 from 1997) contained implementation of readdir() that can return some directory entries multiple times in case of large directories. This behavior was also observed using ext3 file-system with indexed directories.

Installation

LFS has been developed and tested with vanilla kernel 2.6.17.

1. Apply path to configured kernel

   $ cd /usr/src/linux-2.6.17.8/
   $ patch -p1 <<path_to_lfs_instaltion/patches/lfs-2.6.17.8-1.patch
   

   For your connvenience, a patched kernel is also included on the CD. Compile your kernel as usually.

2. Change to the root directory of LFS distribution. Type:

   $ make
   

3. Install LFS by typing

   $ make install
   

   This will copy the garbage collector to /sbin/lfs-gc, mkfs.lfs to /sbin/mkfs.lfs, fsck.lfs to /sbin/fsck.lfs, dump.lfs to /sbin/dump.lfs and liblfs.so to /lib/liblfs.so. It will also install the kernel module to the appropriate directory.

4. Optionally, copy man-pages from doc/man to your distribution's man path^2.1.

5. Load LFS module by:

   $ modprobe lfs
   

LFS is now installed and ready for use. You can proceed to Quick Start in next chapter