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Installers for Homebrew Linux Distributions?

Posted by Cliff on from the building-on-what's-already-out-there dept.

An anonymous reader asks: "With the relatively easy instructions available from various sources (LSF being one), it's fairly easy now for just about any relatively advanced Linux user to create their own distro. I'm well into creating a distribution (for my friends and myself, nothing major), but I can't seem to find any real projects out there to actually go through an installation process. Anaconda is there, but the lack of documentation is serious. Are there any others out there? If not, what would be required to create one? An obvious start would be a stripped down, bootable Linux CD, and an application to handle partitioning, formatting, setting up the filesystem, and installing packages (of whatever sort), but what all has been done before?"

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  1. LFS by pb · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Linux From Scratch

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  2. Re:I;ve done this and can't talk about it :-( by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Thanks for waste of bandwidth.

  3. On a related note. by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    I was wondering--if one is to crete himself an entire LFS system, plus all software that's needed to have a decent home computer (or whatever), could one create an image of the harddrive, put it on a DVD (a-la WinXP with that notebook Slashdot babbled about), and then place the image back on the HD for a reinstall?

    Could it include partions, the MBR, etc.?

    I realize this would only work on one computer, but...