Since I've hit a milestone in my personal HLFS-related project, I might as well announce what I'm working on and what I can contribute.
I've been working on building a customized bootable HLFS cdrom with linux-live scripts (http://www.linux-live.org/) for use at the edge of a network as a dns, ntp, http and socks proxy. The idea is that this since this border host is exposed to the internet that is should not only be hardened, but read-only as well (caching is to RAM and logging can be done over the network) I've been building a set of scripts to bootstrap a HLFS system and have for the first time yesterday been able to apply the linux-live scripts to create a bootable .iso file that actually boots into a minimal but functional HLFS system! There's still much to be done - Setting up the networking, jailing and configuring the daemons, documenting and cleaning up the build scripts plus testing, testing, testing and testing (and testing too) This is something I've been working on for a handful of hours every week for several months now. I'm in no position to be able to provide support, but I'm more than happy to donate back to the HLFS project what I've learned in some form or another. (A BLFS entry?, standalone scripts? a subproject?) -dean takemori -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/hlfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
