linux from nothing

[m.w.chang]

AH.. FORGOT ABOUT MINIX! I did read about Mr. Trovald's story and forgot 
about that piece. lost marks in linux history... :(

and how did the guy crated minix? where is that very core bootdisk?
shouldn't linuxfromscratch begin from that very first bootdisk?  :)

>>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.
> 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..

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