[nzlug] Kernel squared

[Michael Adams]

On Sat, 30 Sep 2006 16:10:39 +1200
Shane wrote:

> On Friday 29 September 2006 11:41, Liz Q wrote:
> > On Friday 29 September 2006 11:30, Dirk Pilat wrote:
> > > On Fri, 29 Sep 2006 09:59:08 +1200, Jim Cheetham <jim at gonzul.net>
> > > wrote:
> > > > It's a good learning experience; although I've heard people say
> > > > that the "Linux from Scratch" model is better to learn from than
> > > > Gentoo.
> > >
> > > I was going to come to that next: Has anybody ever attempted a
> > > Linux from Scratch install?
> > >
> > > It looks perversely tempting but also hugely daunting, but I
> > > presume the educational gain must be immense. No more stupid
> > > questions on NZLUG after that.
> >
> > Its fun for a couple of days but then once its installed or you get
> > stuck its just frustrating, If you do it then do it for the fun of
> > learning a fair bit rather than eliteism or functionality. it will
> > make you appretiate package installers and binaries a whole lot more
> > :D Overall it was fun and educational (not overly hard at all - very
> > well documented) and i would probably do it again at some point.  Oh
> > yeah and beaware it takes up a fair bit of disk space to hold all
> > the sources and compiled stuff etc :)
> >
> > Liz
> 
> When I made my LFS it was for the girls :-)

Downloaded this one recently. Forced a slow burn of the ISO to CD which
seems to work on more CD Drives IMHO. But it would only boot properly as
a live disk on about every second box. Read errors were not normally
the problem.

> 
> I liked building LFS it really did feel like I started with nothing,
> and at the end I had a running Linux
> I have to admit it took me a couple of attempts, and for the life of
> me I couldnt build it on Slackware.  But following the recipe book
> properly got it going on RH.

-- 
Michael
 Those that can, do; those that can't, teach.