LFS LiveCD is dead

[alexander@…]

The book (​http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/view/development/chapter01/how.html) says:

As an alternative to installing a separate distribution onto your machine, you may wish to use the Linux From Scratch LiveCD. The CD works well as a host system, providing all the tools you need to successfully follow the instructions in this book. Additionally, it contains all the source packages, patches and a copy of this book. So once you have the CD, no network connection or additional downloads are necessary.

However, this is not true for development versions of the LFS book - the included sources are for the stable book, and the included book is stable.

[Julio Meca Hansen]

as the LiveCD project is sentenced to death.... shouldn't we close this ticket as WONTFIX? trying to have or not have all the sources in the LiveCD seems a bit irrelevant as it's not going to continue its development process (given the fact I haven't been living in another planet and the development still goes on :P)

Julio

[alexander@…]

The bug in the book still exists. The book should not mention the dead CD at all.

[Matt Darcy]

The LFS LiveCD should not be considered dead, and available for development use / pickup project should time and resources allow.

However Alex is correct in that a wording change should be made to the book to notify that the current LFS live CD build is aimed only at stable vesion X.X

I'll look into updating this wording.

[bdubbs@…]

Updated the discussion in Chapter 1 explaining that the LiveCD is out of date.

Fixed at revision 8675.