MJ Ray wrote on Sunday, November 17, 2002 11:32 AM
David Crease david@creases.freeserve.co.uk wrote:
I am using the new partition to creat a Linux from Scratch system. Has anyone experience of this?
Yes, although it depends how much "from scratch" you mean. I started with a few choice things precompiled (like the compiler! and X, as my machine was not *that* fast) but built most of the rest and used GNU Stow to keep it all under control. A very useful learning experience for people interested in how the system hangs together, but not really for general use ;-)
MJR
I built a LFS system earlier this year as a way of getting into GNU/Linux fairly quickly. I found it really useful and a lot of fun. I had the advantage of a fair bit of Unix experience about 10 years ago but it was still a fairly sharp learning curve. Be prepared to do a fair bit of reading of man pages and how to's.
I'm now setting up a system based on Debian Woody, and the LFS exercise means I'm more aware of what's going on under the bonnet, so to speak.
Regards,
Keith