LFS on usb...

hi,,

i have started reading the LFS book. The very fist steps are to create partition (hd5), swap partition and filesystem.
I want to use the a USB to develop LFS. is it ok?? if yes, do i have to create a swap partition?

thanks

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Re: LFS on usb...

On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Raed Abu-Sanad<raedbenz <at> hotmail.com> wrote:
>
> hi,,
>
> i have started reading the LFS book. The very fist steps are to create partition (hd5), swap partition and filesystem.
> I want to use the a USB to develop LFS. is it ok?? if yes, do i have to create a swap partition?
>
> thanks
>
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Off the top of my head, I don't know what complications building on
USB might give... but swap isn't necessary so long as you have enough
RAM to support the build. Been a while since I had time for a full
build as well so I'm not sure what amount of RAM is needed either.

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Re: LFS on usb...

On Sat, 1 Aug 2009 21:45:05 -0400, Joshua Murphy <poisonbl <at> gmail.com> wrote:
> On Sat, Aug 1, 2009 at 6:15 PM, Raed Abu-Sanad<raedbenz <at> hotmail.com> wrote:
>>
>> hi,,
>>
>> i have started reading the LFS book. The very fist steps are to create
> partition (hd5), swap partition and filesystem.
>> I want to use the a USB to develop LFS. is it ok?? if yes, do i have to
> create a swap partition?
>
> Off the top of my head, I don't know what complications building on
> USB might give... but swap isn't necessary so long as you have enough
> RAM to support the build. Been a while since I had time for a full
> build as well so I'm not sure what amount of RAM is needed either.

The only issue I can think of is the number of write cycles that a full
LFS build will incur, which may wear the USB drive out (assuming it's a pen
drive style, not just a hard drive in a USB enclosure).  The build will
obviously be slow relative to building on a IDE/SATA/SCSI drive due to the
slower seek/write times on USB drives.

Regards,

Matt.

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Re: LFS on usb...

Matthew Burgess wrote these words on 08/02/09 05:24 CST:
> The only issue I can think of is the number of write cycles that a full
> LFS build will incur, which may wear the USB drive out (assuming it's a pen
> drive style, not just a hard drive in a USB enclosure).  The build will
> obviously be slow relative to building on a IDE/SATA/SCSI drive due to the
> slower seek/write times on USB drives.

What exactly is there to wear out in flash memory? Here's some info I dug up:

USB flash drives allow reading, writing, and erasing of data, with some
allowing 1 million write/erase cycles in each cell of memory: if 100 uses
per day, 1 million cycles could span 10,000 days or over 27 years. Some
devices level the usage by auto-shifting activity to underused sections of
memory.

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wget 6.5

see attachment

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Re: wget 6.5

On 08/19/2009 02:49 PM, Matthias Feichtinger wrote:
> see attachment
>

See attachment for what? Looks like it's just a copy of the wget-list 
linked in the book.
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