On Sat, 2012-01-14 at 13:23 +0000, Adrian Fisher wrote: > Hello all, > > I bought a new laptop in November (HP Pavilion dv6-6002sa Entertainment > Notebook) and wish to start working on LFS 7.0 on it (replacing the > existing OS with Linux). What distribution is most recommended to use > as a base? I plan to start off with replacing Windows with a general > distribution but to put Windows back on in a virtual machine through > Virtual Box for work purposes. I wish to create my new distribution as > another virtual machine which I plan to use to replace the host OS when > it is ready and I know more about what I'm doing. > > Any suggestions? > > Thanks in advance. > > A.
Usually, I make anything work with gentoo linux (and that mean, no computer I ever encounter didn't work with gentoo Linux) and so, recommend their livedvd because I compiled linux distributions with them since 2003 including uclibc's buildroot (see http://buildroot.uclibc.org/ ). Alain -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-chat FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
