libera #lfs

10 Jun 2025

LFS offtopic chat and banter, friendly discussion for the LFS community outside the scope of support. LFS questions in #lfs-support.

• 00:03
  zedmatrix
  this is what i install in after chapter 8... paste.gentoo.zip/UVqXroVq
• 00:07
  nsITobin
  only think i can think that could otherwise go is git and rar support
• 00:07
  nsITobin
  i mean rar
• 00:07
  nsITobin
  i only have 45 days to use it LOL
• 00:08
  nsITobin
  eveyrthing else seems kinda required
• 00:10
  nsITobin
  do you need fuse?
• 00:20
  zedmatrix
  hmm grub-uefi ... optional fuse, lvm2
• 00:25
  zedmatrix
  hmm i think the "sleeps"
• 00:25
  zedmatrix
  ...in init might be slowing it down
• 00:30
  zedmatrix
  hmm found another option to update the init (initramfs) the efivarfs
• 00:32
  nsITobin
  oh?
• 00:33
  zedmatrix
  yea i just tryed booting it with my qemu efi setup
• 00:33
  zedmatrix
  it boots, but doesn't expose the efivarfs
• 00:38
  nsITobin
  is exposing efivars enabled in the kernel?
• 00:40
  zedmatrix
  no from your uefi bios
• 00:56
  zedmatrix
  i made my own uefi bios for qemu, the tianacore build :)
• 01:42
  zedmatrix
  nsITobin: some more minor tweaks to the init :)
• 16:00
  zedmatrix
  nsITobin: it looks like i can store the my package def and iso on gitlab, looks like 10 gb , i only need maybe 2
• 16:02
  nsITobin
  oh good
• 16:06
  zedmatrix
  have you tryed to store archive files ?
• 16:06
  nsITobin
  not on gitlab
• 16:06
  nsITobin
  on github it was just drag and drop attach to a release
• 16:25
  zedmatrix
  yea i know i made a release on github
• 16:26
  zedmatrix
  my iheart linux app
• 16:26
  zedmatrix
  simple qt6 based
• 16:26
  zedmatrix
  nsITobin: did a simple update github.com/zedmatrix/Bash_Scripts/b…/main/Initramfs/Live_ISO_Project.md
• 16:27
  nsITobin
  oOo documentation!
• 16:32
  zedmatrix
  almost the same just slighty diff
• 16:32
  zedmatrix
  i like to document as i go, so i dont forget anything
• 17:46
  zedmatrix
  i did update the init for the initramfs for the sys-v/uefi
• 19:04
  zedmatrix
  nsITobin: had to git rebase , but setting it up on gitlab
• 19:25
  zedmatrix
  hmm maybe something wrong with git lab lfs, its going above the filesize
• 20:26
  zedmatrix
  nsITobin: dunno it might be limited to 100mb not sure but ... gitlab.com/zed-linuxfromscratch/live-iso