Hello First, let me just brief you.
I would like to build a Linux distro that can be run on a low powered laptop (233 MHz - 700 MHz.) But having no previous Linux distributions, I thought I had best try and build a "normal" one first. So I had a go. I created a virtual machine (using VMWare,) gave it 4gb space. Got slackware installed, copied across all the source archive things and then started. Got going, was all going well, and as I come to bunzip the libc-headers in the temporary system (yes, which is extremely early on in the process) and I ran out of space!!!!!! 4Gb!!! It didn't help with the fact I had to start again half way through (start from scratch, reformat) because GCC3.4.0 would compile, so I started again taking the GCC4 branch. So my theory is that it was because it was a virtual machine the GCC3.4 wouldn't compile (4 did fine btw) so I set up a second pc, with rubbish spec (Pentium 2 MMX 233 MHz) with a 2gig hard drive. So I know I'm not making it easy for myself here, but does anyone have any suggestion on making, not necessarily a tiny distro, but making it using minimal resources and being as small as possible. I've read the tips and stuff, and I'll do them next time, but I would like more help, for example, what base distro would be best, like small, but still has the requisites required to build an LFS system Thanks in advanced Dom. -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
