[KLUG Members] LFS first try

[Todd Pillars]

About a week ago I got the itch to do a Linux From Scratch box. After
peicing together an old 266 w/ 128mb ram (and popping in a second 3.2G HD
for the build) box and spending 3 hours finding and downloading the source
tars I set to work. As a side note I did find all the tar files zipped
from a google search on a different topic - about 130M without the kernel
- wich took about 10 minutes to download on broadband.

Well, the compile times were not stellar but after about 20 hours over 5
days - 10 of those hours learning the insides and out of linux - I booted
into my brand new 2.4.22 base linux system! (2.4.23 and 2.6.test11 are
downloaded and ready to go)

This is a small footprint no frills OS, about 370Mb without servers, and
can be pared down even more by removing of some the docs and unused bins.
I will say this: This thing ROCKS! This box takes longer to go throught
it's POST than it does to boot!

While this mainly serves to prove I can follow directions - the LFS book
is excellent and without it I would have been lost - it was a great
learning experience. You can find it at http://www.linuxfromscratch.org

Now to put together a real machine and do it again! Hopefully to document
my experience better, and then on to BEYOND Linux From Scratch.

Todd