linux from nothing

[James Bonnet]

Net Llama! wrote:

>On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote:
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>>m.w.chang spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:
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>>>We now got Knoppix and Gentoo that basically boot you into a working linux.
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>>>how could you start building a system using instructions on
>>>linuxfromscratch if you don't even have any linux distribution?
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>>>kind of like what Mr. Trovald got when he wrote linux-0.1. can one walk
>>>in his shoes?
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>>I've just been booting off knoppix, mounting the bare hard drive, and building
>>LFS onto the hard drive. or is this not what you meant?
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>I think he meant, how do you create an OS when you have nothing.  Using
>Knoppix is kinda cheating, cause you're using the OS to create the OS.
>Linus didn't have Linux to self-host his original kernel.
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right.. but he had minix.. which is where linux came from if Im not 
mistaken.. NOT that he took minix and hacked it into linux, but that he 
created linux ON minux..

kinda like if I made a new OS jimbix on xenix or something... =)

-j