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Linux from Scratch

54 points by Datenstrom 7y ago

dang 7y ago
2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11829373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11829373 2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488162, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3677350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3677350 2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3171448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3171448
- kfrzcode 7y ago
  Right? What is this, reddit?
  - Operyl 7y ago
    > Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. Furthermore, sure, it gets resubmitted but things on the internet change, new people are in the community, etc. Resubmissions over the course of a few years are bound to happen, the original comment was just linking previous conversations.
    - bityard 7y ago
      Then maybe it would be more appropriate for the poster to link to a blog article or some such which states what's been going on with LFS lately. Just linking to the main page doesn't really accomplish anything when the overwhelming majority of HN readers probably already know what LFS is. It's been around for 20 years, that the project exists isn't news. And the name of this site is, as it happens, Hacker _News_. /rant
  - dang 7y ago
    Reposts are ok on HN if a story hasn't had significant attention in about a year. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. We post links to past discussions just to satisfy curious readers. It's great if others do that too! Just make sure that there are interesting comments to read at the other end of the link, since otherwise clicking on it is a no-op.
ziddoap 7y ago
>HTTPS Everywhere noticed you were navigating to a non-HTTPS page, and tried to send you to the HTTPS version instead. The HTTPS version is unavailable. Pretty much inexcusable for any company in 2019 (although, I run into this quite a bit...) let alone a tech-orientated one.
- vbezhenar 7y ago
  They have http listener on 443 port. Probably misconfiguration.
- bityard 7y ago
  1. It's not a company 2. There is nothing on the page worth protecting with HTTPS
  - ziddoap 7y ago
    1. Replace "company" with "website". 2. It's the standard moving forward.
  - friedegg 7y ago
    Without ssl, someone could hypothetically intercept it, modify the instructions slightly, and lead you to installing something malicious. They could also do other things like inject javascript, etc.
LeonM 7y ago
I build a LFS system recently, only to get stuck at the very last step (installing the bootloader), because my system uses UEFI. LFS supplies a UEFI guide [0], but it's outdated and incomplete. I kinda gave up there, didn't have the time or energy to figure it out. [0] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfs-uefi.txt http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfs-ue...
- thomastjeffery 7y ago
  This is probably the most straight-forward way to boot from UEFI: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB Naturally, you will want to obtain efibootmgr via "from scratch" means.
- xx8866-6644 7y ago
  Try this one instead [0], there have been some issues updating the website, as I gathered from the mailing list [1]. [0] http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/trunk/lfs-uefi.txt http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/trunk/lfs-uefi.txt [1] http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2019-April/052800.html http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2019...
smitty1e 7y ago
Just an excellent resource.
jason_slack 7y ago
I asked a few days ago if LFS was still a great way to learn internals, build a minimal bistro, etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20149111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20149111

54 points by Datenstrom 7y ago

dang 7y ago

2016 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11829373 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=11829373 2012 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488162 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4488162, https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3677350 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3677350 2011 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3171448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3171448

kfrzcode 7y ago
Right? What is this, reddit?
- Operyl 7y ago
  > Please don't submit comments saying that HN is turning into Reddit. It's a semi-noob illusion, as old as the hills. Furthermore, sure, it gets resubmitted but things on the internet change, new people are in the community, etc. Resubmissions over the course of a few years are bound to happen, the original comment was just linking previous conversations.
  - bityard 7y ago
    Then maybe it would be more appropriate for the poster to link to a blog article or some such which states what's been going on with LFS lately. Just linking to the main page doesn't really accomplish anything when the overwhelming majority of HN readers probably already know what LFS is. It's been around for 20 years, that the project exists isn't news. And the name of this site is, as it happens, Hacker _News_. /rant
- dang 7y ago
  Reposts are ok on HN if a story hasn't had significant attention in about a year. This is in the FAQ: https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html https://news.ycombinator.com/newsfaq.html. We post links to past discussions just to satisfy curious readers. It's great if others do that too! Just make sure that there are interesting comments to read at the other end of the link, since otherwise clicking on it is a no-op.

ziddoap 7y ago

>HTTPS Everywhere noticed you were navigating to a non-HTTPS page, and tried to send you to the HTTPS version instead. The HTTPS version is unavailable. Pretty much inexcusable for any company in 2019 (although, I run into this quite a bit...) let alone a tech-orientated one.

vbezhenar 7y ago
They have http listener on 443 port. Probably misconfiguration.
bityard 7y ago
1. It's not a company 2. There is nothing on the page worth protecting with HTTPS
- ziddoap 7y ago
  1. Replace "company" with "website". 2. It's the standard moving forward.
- friedegg 7y ago
  Without ssl, someone could hypothetically intercept it, modify the instructions slightly, and lead you to installing something malicious. They could also do other things like inject javascript, etc.

LeonM 7y ago

I build a LFS system recently, only to get stuck at the very last step (installing the bootloader), because my system uses UEFI. LFS supplies a UEFI guide [0], but it's outdated and incomplete. I kinda gave up there, didn't have the time or energy to figure it out. [0] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfs-uefi.txt http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/downloads/files/lfs-ue...

thomastjeffery 7y ago
This is probably the most straight-forward way to boot from UEFI: https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB https://wiki.archlinux.org/index.php/EFISTUB Naturally, you will want to obtain efibootmgr via "from scratch" means.
xx8866-6644 7y ago
Try this one instead [0], there have been some issues updating the website, as I gathered from the mailing list [1]. [0] http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/trunk/lfs-uefi.txt http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/hints/trunk/lfs-uefi.txt [1] http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2019-April/052800.html http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/pipermail/lfs-support/2019...

smitty1e 7y ago

Just an excellent resource.

jason_slack 7y ago

I asked a few days ago if LFS was still a great way to learn internals, build a minimal bistro, etc: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20149111 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20149111