linux from nothing

[Kurt Wall]

Feigning erudition, m.w.chang wrote:
% 
% We now got Knoppix and Gentoo that basically boot you into a working linux.
% 
% how could you start building a system using instructions on 
% linuxfromscratch if you don't even have any linux distribution?

You have to start from somewhere because you need a compiler.

% kind of like what Mr. Trovald got when he wrote linux-0.1. can one walk 
% in his shoes?

He used Minix (Andrew Tannenbaum) to bootstrap Linux. Eventually,
he got to the point where the kernel could bootstrap and, once he
had some tools, went from there. The rest, as they say, is history.

Kurt
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