Re: new os

2010-12-13 Thread robert
Drew Ames wrote: -BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/12/2010 08:28 PM, robert wrote: Someday of course I'll be able to add only known quantities after the fresh build and thereby keep the whole thing smartly clean something like a system-wide RSA number. Robert, If

new os

2010-12-12 Thread robert
No small sense of accomplishment attaches to having finished up this project. Of course, this cannot be anywhere near as gratifying as having actually put together this little project. Many people no doubt involved. A warm gracias merci beaucoup danke to all of you. As I believe I mentioned

Re: new os

2010-12-12 Thread Randy McMurchy
robert wrote these words on 12/12/10 16:22 CST: Any precautionary notes before I light out for the wilderness? Why reinvent the wheel? An automated system to build LFS already exists! Instead of simply doing boring work adding together the commands, why not use your new Linux system to do

Re: new os

2010-12-12 Thread robert
Randy McMurchy wrote: robert wrote these words on 12/12/10 16:22 CST: Any precautionary notes before I light out for the wilderness? Why reinvent the wheel? An automated system to build LFS already exists! Instead of simply doing boring work adding together the commands, why not use your

Re: new os

2010-12-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Dec 12, 2010 at 04:22:45PM -0600, robert wrote: I believe now, I'm going to concatenate all my commands (or at least as many as should reasonably be concatenated) with and then try to get it to build overnight. Any precautionary notes before I light out for the wilderness?

Re: new os

2010-12-12 Thread robert
Ken Moffat wrote: Two thoughts (as someone who creates his own scripts to do this). First, give some thought to catching error messages (e.g. by logging stderr), whilst remembering that every script you create will bring its own new bugs. Second, and more importantly, the perfect is the

Re: new os

2010-12-12 Thread Drew Ames
-BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE- Hash: SHA1 On 12/12/2010 08:28 PM, robert wrote: Someday of course I'll be able to add only known quantities after the fresh build and thereby keep the whole thing smartly clean something like a system-wide RSA number. Robert, If you're looking for a