I’ve been working with Linux from scratch for a few days now and I’m still impressed.
Today, after getting quite bored unpacking and compiling software, I decided to look at the automatic LFS profiles.
The LFS LiveCD has a profile on it setup to compile all the packages, just like the instructions say and I’m even more impressed now then I was when I was doing everything by hand.
With just a few changes in a few scripts you can setup a PC to build a LFS system and since the configuration files are all XML based, you can get the automatic Linux from scratch software to install just about anything else as well.
I can not imagine how one person could create a few scripts and make their own LFS LiveCD and be able to build any type of system that they wanted. Sure it may take a few hours or over night to get the results you want, no where near as fast a installing from a standard distribution, but from what I can see it will be more then worth it.
In fact you could create a a single LFS LiveCD with multiple profiles and be able to recreate an entire server room in a day or two. I’m impressed and I’m going to be basing my servers off of this technology. Anytime I need to add capacity I will be able to boot off of a CD and run a few script, then I will have a server configured to my specifications and I’ll be able to support more servers by myself than ever before 