Have any us tried to build a Linux From Scratch? http://lfs.oregonstate.edu/lfs/news.html How did it go? Is there a thread on the subject? Does anyone know of a college level course which uses this as part of its lab.? Ken Jones Fitchburg, MA
Ken, I used the modules and instructions on the web site back in the 2.x - 3.x days. In the process of building all the modules, you learn a lot. I even built a Linux distro that ran on a PPC Macintosh. There's also a couple of additional projects: ALFS (automated LFS) and BLFS (Beyond LFS) that cover modules you might need after getting the base system working. Good luck, Skip -----Original Message----- From: wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org [mailto:wlug-bounces@mail.wlug.org]On Behalf Of Ken Jones Sent: Saturday, April 17, 2004 9:38 AM To: wlug@mail.wlug.org Cc: kjones@ziplink.net Subject: [Wlug] Linux From Scratch?? Have any us tried to build a Linux From Scratch? http://lfs.oregonstate.edu/lfs/news.html How did it go? Is there a thread on the subject? Does anyone know of a college level course which uses this as part of its lab.? Ken Jones Fitchburg, MA _______________________________________________ Wlug mailing list Wlug@mail.wlug.org http://mail.wlug.org/mailman/listinfo/wlug
Yes, I did it as some research into an embedded linux system. I setup the kernel and used busybox for base system. I also messed around with making my own /sbin/init for the embedded system that was only to have one process running. just for kicks, try putting a "hello world" program in /sbin/init sometime. make sure you have a backup & boot disk/CD though.
Have any us tried to build a Linux From Scratch?
http://lfs.oregonstate.edu/lfs/news.html
How did it go? Is there a thread on the subject? Does anyone know of a college level course which uses this as part of its lab.?
Ken Jones Fitchburg, MA
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Karl Hiramoto
On Mon, 19 Apr 2004, Karl Hiramoto wrote:
just for kicks, try putting a "hello world" program in /sbin/init sometime. make sure you have a backup & boot disk/CD though.
Most bootloaders allow you to append to the kernel commandline (at least grub and lilo both do). You could run your test by doing "init=/sbin/myinit", or safe a backup copy of /sbin/init as /sbin/init.real, and booting with "init=/sbin/init.real" to recover. Of course, backups and boot disks are always a good idea.
From: Ken Jones
Have any us tried to build a Linux From Scratch?
I bought the book. I was disappointed in it. Its general form was: download all this stuff, type this, type this, now type this. There was not much discussion of why.
How did it go?
A few minutes of excitement that I had a new book. A couple hours of paging through the book with growing disappointment at how little could be learned by reading it. Probably you could learn more by actually doing it, and more importantly, by reading the documentation and code of the various packages as you build them. I began to think that I should go through the process in order to write a couple of chapters that would explain the overall plan, but maybe somebody else is already doing that. In any case it's not my high priority project. So the book sits quietly on my shelf.
Does anyone know of a college level course which uses this as part of its lab.?
No, I don't. I don't think such a lab would be worth much unless the professor had something specific to demonstrate by assigning a problem to make some changes, e.g. run on special hardware, boot into a special purpose program. Even then, there would probably be a better way to make the point than to build everything from scratch. There's not a lot to be learned by spending days watching compiler output scroll past. -- Keith
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