On Tue, Dec 11, 2001 at 03:48:43PM -0800, Justin Bengtson wrote: > > <snippety>
<more snippety> > is there a way to do this with linux? Why not? It's mostly controlled by Makefiles ... http://www.openbsd.org/cgi-bin/cvsweb/src/distrib/i386/floppies/ > i was thinking that once i get LFS up > and running, i can just tar the whole damn thing up and send it to a cd. > then i just need a boot disk able to run tar. when and if my system gets > too loaded with crap, i can just wipe and un-tar the site file. this may > get more complicated than i thought, but it sounds really nice. maybe > program a small perl installer for it... > > is there anything else involved besides the tarball, tar, tools to create > partitions and file systems and a boot disk? If you just follow the Makefiles, you will know exactly how the disks are made and what's on them. I wouldn't be surprised if someone hasn't tweaked it, or done something similar for GNU/Linux already ... perhaps Owl (http://www.openwall.com/) or Gentoo (http://www.gentoo.org/) have something similar? And if not, go for it! I think the install process is definitely the first step in creating a distribution. -- <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
