but i have been trying to install linux distro-free from scratch for some time now. an ambitious project for me, since i have been using linux only for 3 months now (redhat, which hasn't made me completely happy). i'm a want-to-know-how-it-REALLY-works-nerd and i want to create the minimal installation without any ballast and unnecessary elements.
my growing dissatisfaction with windows was (for a large part) founded in the fact that you never really know what is going on, though you suspect your system might be doing things it shouldn't (and those rather inefficiently). that feeling has now been replaced with "my linux box is doing things i don't want it to do/i don't understand", which is admittedly an improvement already. now i want more (shame on me).
i tried "linux from scratch" and it worked, but i think the process of having to install a distro first and then creating my own on top/besides instead of from the ground up seems tedious and clumsy.
i have tried to glue the real thing together from bootdisk-howtos and related stuff, but the best i managed was kernel booting and halting because of shared libs missing.
any pointers? (except for the one reading "go to hell, flamebait")
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in fact that is what happened to me with 2.4.9 which turned out to be 2.4.8.
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but i have been trying to install linux distro-free from scratch for some time now. an ambitious project for me, since i have been using linux only for 3 months now (redhat, which hasn't made me completely happy). i'm a want-to-know-how-it-REALLY-works-nerd and i want to create the minimal installation without any ballast and unnecessary elements.
my growing dissatisfaction with windows was (for a large part) founded in the fact that you never really know what is going on, though you suspect your system might be doing things it shouldn't (and those rather inefficiently). that feeling has now been replaced with "my linux box is doing things i don't want it to do/i don't understand", which is admittedly an improvement already. now i want more (shame on me).
i tried "linux from scratch" and it worked, but i think the process of having to install a distro first and then creating my own on top/besides instead of from the ground up seems tedious and clumsy.
i have tried to glue the real thing together from bootdisk-howtos and related stuff, but the best i managed was kernel booting and halting because of shared libs missing.
any pointers? (except for the one reading "go to hell, flamebait")
in fact that is what happened to me with 2.4.9 which turned out to be 2.4.8.