Since there have been several mentions of LFS here, I thought I'd say something about my experiences with it. In a nutshell, I like it a lot and I had very little difficulty following the 260 page "book" for version 3.0-pre4, despite a strong tendency to do dumb things at the keyboard. So far I have successfully installed the base system and have networking going. I have learned more about how Linux works in a few short days than I thought possible. I deviated from the book only by using grub instead of the lilo bootloader. Some random comments: 1. The Book is a marvel - 260 pages of well-written, well-formatted, very usable text. It's almost a joy to RTFM. Well, almost. 2. The installation scripts all worked for me, without exception. Since the scripts are printed in the book, it's easy to see what is happening. A few of the scripts need a little editing to conform to your system, but this is well documented. And some of the scripts are so trivial that it is easier to just enter the commands manually. 3. The lfs-discuss list is moderately active and the one time I had a question I got an immediate response from Gerard Beekman, the brain behind LFS. I plan to install X and KDE next. If there are others who have done or are doing this, I'd be glad to compare notes. The published "hints" for them on www.linuxfromscratch.org look pretty hairy, but I'll give it a shot. Dave Ayers _______________________________________________ http://linux.nf -- [EMAIL PROTECTED] Archives, Subscribe, Unsubscribe, Digest, Etc ->http://linux.nf/mailman/listinfo/linux-users
