I started programming in 1976, as an undergraduate student. It is well known
that some idiot errors are more difficult to detect than others, exactly
because they are not expected.
My first reading of LFS produced a non bootable system, as did many following
ones. I kept the first one, while trying again and again. When at last I
produced a bootable one, it had no mandb. I came to the first one, crooted in
and noticed that I had mandb. Corrected the grub menu to be the same as in the
bootable, disabled a serial port in VMW, and it booted too. Came back to the
last version and corrected the groff.
I wrote all that to say that I did *read many times* the book, but after
several readings, one starts becoming blind to some apparently obvious points.
I have some experience in education: teaching and supervising thesis at several
undergraduate and postgraduate levels, and one thing I always kept in mind is
that you can expect mistakes even from the brightest students.
LFS and BLFS are great initiatives, and doing something to improve them is
worthwhile and does not mean they are not very good indeed.
I still have problems in my system to be sorted out, but I like it so much that
rarely I use other machine, my VMWLFS hosted by my Ubuntu PC is more used than
the host itself.
I would like to thank everybody who took their precious time thinking and
writing about this OT subject.
[]s,
Fernando Oliveira
Natal, RN, BRAZIL
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