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jhawk65

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 4

Problem installing LFS on my USB in slitaz

I am having a problem making my usb boot LFS (Linux From Scratch)

I got it to the point where it loads and then later it gives a kernel panic and says killing intrd (I believe that's the name am writing from memory so please forgive me)

I partitioned my usb with fdisk and made a ext3 with mkfs.ext3 after that I created a USB dir in /mnt. I then mounted the usb to the /mnt/usb directory.

I then createde a boot and grub directory. After that I used cp -p /boot/grub/* /mnt/usb/boot/grub

Everything went well. I then made the grub.

I downloaded LFS from http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/livecd/download.html then copied linux in /mnt/usr/boot and copied the intrd.gz (Idk the whole filename and extension) file in /mnt/usb/boot

I did some other things, but I can't remember O_O my grub system on my hd gave me a error:15

So I reinstalled slitaz 3.0 via my usb so all of that work is wiped out

So if anybody can help me get this right and make my usb boot LFS all the way would be greately appreciated thanks in advance

jhawk65

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Registered: 2011-12-06

Posts: 4

Re: Problem installing LFS on my USB in slitaz

I think I figured it out. I installed a lite version of ubuntu on my USB with the universal usb installer from the pendrive linux site: http://www.pendrivelinux.com/universal-usb-installer-easy-as-1-2-3/

This is for windows and I had to install everything on the windows pc. I was trying to figure out a way for doing this in slitaz, but strangly enough there are no usb installers for linux O.o and wine didn't work. It ran Unetbootin, but did not make my USB bootable.

I suppose I will have to try and make a installer and post it later in a new thread.

I do think distrod like arch linux and others would provide a .img download. because then you could just put in terminal:

# dd if=[path of .img] of=[path of USB device]

and that would be it.