Don: IMHO & FWIW, building a Linux from scratch [1] or a Gentoo system [2] would be a very worthwhile exercise for you to do.
[1] http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ [2] http://www.gentoo.org/ It would, I'm sure, be a very educational exercise for all of the rest of us too. :-) -- Sincerely etc. Christopher Sawtell
