Not sure when you tried it - but my attempt ~4mo ago starting from debian stable worked as per the instructions - and there are at least 3 mirror sites that kee

Not sure when you tried it - but my attempt ~4mo ago starting from debian stable worked as per the instructions - and there are at least 3 mirror sites that keep all the required packages listed ... See the bottom section of the page http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html#ftp http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/download.html#ftp