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Name: Play3r
Date: September 13, 2003 at 18:26:21 Pacific
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Hi

dose anyone know where i can find instructions or a how-to guide on making my own minimal linux distro I was thinking 2 floppy or less

I want to do it to learn more about linux and i think it will be fun but i have not been able to find much info so far

Can anyone help?

Thanks



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Name: frink36
Date: September 13, 2003 at 19:02:04 Pacific
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LinuxFromScratch:

http://linuxfromscratch.org/


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Response Number 2
Name: anonproxy
Date: September 13, 2003 at 21:57:01 Pacific
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I would not focus on making your own minimal distro until you have seen what you consider to be weaknesses and strengths in other minimalist distros. I.e. join mailing lists for some and check out their methodology of cutting things out.

Basically, you have to become somewhat intimate with all the necessary (and unnecessary) packages of Linux. LFS is a good place to start. Beyond that your two-floppy distro for example will take other knowledge which you will indentify by examining existing distros.

A good list can be found at linux.org under distributions.



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Response Number 3
Name: Play3r
Date: September 14, 2003 at 04:04:28 Pacific
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i did realy want a minimal distro for an emergancy repair disk/s at the moment i use a dos disk and i decided why not replace it with a linux one :)

I also though of just using a pre made one but i figure i will not learn much about linux that way

Thanks


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Response Number 4
Name: Play3r
Date: September 14, 2003 at 16:45:05 Pacific
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I have been reading the LFS book thanks for the info


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Response Number 5
Name: unixhead
Date: September 15, 2003 at 20:40:11 Pacific
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Here's one called hal91:

http://www.itm.tu-clausthal.de/~perle/hal91/

I never tried it. But, I ran across it a while back, and it looked like it would make an excellent emergency repair disk.


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