Kevin, I'm a relative linux newbie, but I have installed and used (not on a daily basis) various distros of RedHat, Mandrake, Suse etc. I found that all have far too many packages, and that it takes far too long to go throug the install procedure to select them individually, especially when my SCSI CDR spins down whilst I am selecting, and won' spin up again, causin me to restart the whole install. My most recent distro was Suse 7.1 Live ( Linux Format cover CD April 2001), which actually boots from your C: drive (under Windoze) and then runs from the CD. Very goos, EXCEPT that KDE 2 (or Suse itself) misreported my Windows drive names and caused me to wipe the contents of one Hard Drive. I have now downloaded ZipSlack (from AARnet's Slackware 7.1 Mirror) and have installed this (merely unziped it) to an Orb 2.2 gb removable disk, booting from floppy at present. This is a very basic distro, no XWindows or GUI at all. I then downloaded from AARnet the XWindows .tgz's and installed hem. Now I have fvwm.Next is to download and add necessary additional programs. This distro runs from Dos, but can easily be migrated to an ext2 partition. I think that this is an easy way to learn to build your own distro. Check out http://www.slackware.com/book/index.php3 for info and docs. Bill [EMAIL PROTECTED] >Hi all, > >I was wondering if anyone has tried to building their own Linux? >as in the site www.byolinux.org. >Or am do I have no life to contemplate something like this :) > >Kevin
