Linux From Scratch

[Kurt Wall]

Good {morning,afternoon,evening}, list,

Just for giggles and grins, I spent the last three evenings and this 
morning building an LFS system. Aside from some quibbles with the package
selections, I liked the results and the process went without any major
hitches. In fact, I was able to jump to the latest available versions of
all the suggested packages except for LILO and bin86. The newest LILO (22.3.3)
wanted nasm, which I didn't want to download, and the newest bin86 (0.16.9)
is considered unstable by its author, so I stuck with 0.16.0. However, I
used, for example, gcc-3.2 without incident to build the entire system, 
including the kernel.

It just amazes me how quickly LFS boots. All in all, the whole thing impresses
me. I need to add X and some other bits to it before I am willing to use it
as a "production" system, but, nevertheless, it was pretty slick. Beyond adding
packages that scratch my particular set of itches, I'll be working on a way
to automate building the whole thing and fine-tuning the package configuration,
such as disabling NLS whenever possible and building for my CPU. I think I'll 
even add a complete rebuild once the entire system is built in order to get a 
fully self-hosted LFS system.

Pretty darn neat, if ya ask me.

Blessed be,

Kurt
-- 
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