Linux from scratch (almost)

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2002-11-04 10:10pm

I'm trying to assemble a linux system from the coredistro distribution which doesn't come with anything but GCC and the basic command line tools, since I can't find a working distribution without problems <500 megs. Hell peanut linux doesn't even come with GCC. What stuff should I download? I've already begun tracking down some libs and software, but I seem to have neglected the configuration tools. Which of those should I download?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2002-11-04 10:49pm

[crazyrantmode]IS ANYONE GOING TO HELP ME!!!!!!

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Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2002-11-05 12:08pm

plzzz

Ted · Post by **Ted** » 2002-11-05 12:10pm

HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHHAHA

No one likes you!!!!

Um, why dont you PM Wong or someone?

Post by **Kuja** » 2002-11-05 12:14pm

PM Wong, Bean, or MoO. I think they'll give some advice.

Post by **Mr Bean** » 2002-11-05 01:54pm

LET THERE BE MANDRAKE

I donna you phrased you question baddly, I'm not good with Acyhomens or spelling of the word "Acrhomens"

Whatever

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2002-11-05 02:21pm

Linux from scratch, don't you have anything better to do than sitting around twiddling your thumbs while your PC whirs away compiling XFree, KDE and all the other stuff you need for the OS to be usable?

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2002-11-05 03:59pm

No I don't have anything to do. And actually it's not quite linux from scratch, hence the sort of since half the packages I'm downloading is already precompiled tarballs and slackware packages. I despise RPM packages, because of the dependency hell. I can't really compile a linux from scratch anyways because I don't have a *nix system to compile it on, hence I'm using precompiled for the base system to compile everything else on. Can you do the compiling for LFS on Cygwin? Of course I still have to install all of those 60+ packages.

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2002-11-05 04:49pm

Get slackware linux it might be more inline with your tastes and is far easier than anything like a from scratch distro.

Pu-239 · Post by **Pu-239** » 2002-11-05 05:41pm

I already downloaded most of the stuff thanks anyways. Anyone know whether I should use ext2, ext3, or reiserfs?

Crazy_Vasey · Post by **Crazy_Vasey** » 2002-11-05 05:44pm

I use ext3 and it works fine.