[KLUG Members] LFS first try

[Robert G. Brown]

This is a great story, Todd, and I've been very impressed by LFS ove the 
past year. I have not done what you have yet, but I am encouraged to do
so from your experience and writing.

In the past year, I encountered two LFS systems at client sites. I have 
not seen systems so spare in software, yet so complete in what they were
there to do. I was also quite pleased by their stability, speed, and 
security. At the same time, I marveled at how few traces there were of
HOW they were installed and in fact was confused by just what they actually 
were (see the archives, I shared my ignorance at the time with everyone :).

Once again, Linux excels!

On Wed, 03 Dec 2003 00:45:18 -0500, "Todd Pillars" <kazoot@chartermi.net> wrote:

>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
>
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