I am all done with the linux from scratch base install but before I go on to beyond linux from scratch the recomendation is to install  some programs first. (lynx, gpm, sudo, openssl, openssh, wget, and parted)
I installed lynx with no problems. Then, after unpacking gpm, and after I cd into the gpm directory, the terminal froze. I couldn't <enter> nor <^C>. I shut the terminal down and then started another one and now I can't ssh into the lfs box. I then just restarted the lfs box and then ran 'ip addr show' and it says the ip address isn't what it was. It was 192.168.0.14 but now it is 169.254.11.37/16 .

Two questions,
Why did it change from one private address to another and in another subnet?

I'm thinking I'm going to need to start over from the beginning; is that so?

Well, I guess three questions: