Enviroment Setup

Before VMWare was around this was a bit of a hassle to have on your main harddrive. What I have done instead is made a virtual image of a hard drive using VMware player. I installed Debian lenny 5 as the host machine while I was setting up my own distro. After a while you will not need the host operating system because you own will be sufficent enough to boot into. After a while you can delete the partition that debian on it and give more space to your new linux distro.

I gave 8.6GB to the virtual disk. 4GB to Debian lenny, 500MB for swap space and 4GB for my new linux distro. I only installed debian with minimum amount of setup. I just had the command line. No GUI is needed.

sda3 is going to be my linux from scatch partition. It is ext3 partition. Remember when you are compiling the kernel in LFS that ext3 driver is not enabled by default. if yo do not enable it and you have a ext3 partition then when you are booting the kernel will produce an error saying it does not know what to do with this partition. You have not given the kernel the tools to deal with it if you think of it that way.