LFS again

Ok, got through chapter 5 of the LFS book, but I really do want a package manager. I have looked at apt-get (which I LOVE in Ubuntu) RPM (No experience) LPM (Something designed specifically for LFS, although it doesn't look complete enough to be useful) and portage (the Gentoo package manager) I would like to install apt-get, but I'm not sure how feasible it would be to use on LFS. Ehh RPM and LPM, so I think that once I'm closer to finish (I'm just starting chapter 6) I will try portage, and XFCE. Me and my friend also think it would be cool to sell custom computers (meaning everything from the hardware to the OSes installed) over the summer to see how feasible it is. I think that would be cool.

LFS!

Ok, so I was bored. Really. really. bored. So I was looking around at different Linux Distros, and installed PCLinuxOS (Which is SICK BTW, although I do prefer GNOME a little over KDE, and XFCE is pretty cool too). Then I found about this thing called LFS, Linux From Scratch, which is essentially a book (free download www.linuxfromscratch.org) that tells you how to custom build a Linux system. How chill is that?! so I DLed it. Reading the site, I can only install on a 32-bit system, no x86_64 version yet, although they're implementing it on the next version, so I'm stuck installing on Ubuntu. (Slamd64 is so far my fave distro on my compy, but I haven't gotten much to work with it so I still need the others) So I began installing on Ubu. First thing I'm installing I got an error, surprise surprise. I really didn't feel like screwing around, so I DLed the LFS LiveCD which provides the tried and true host for installing LFS. Got that running, and right now I'm running the configure scripts. I'm also planning on installing Winblows (ugg) just because I think that with Linux I won't be able to use my 9600 to it's full potential. I really just want a base version of Winblows, without all the complete JUNK that comes with it that I never really use anyway. Complete BLOATWARE. A little Google found me this VLite thing, (forget the website) which allows remastering of a Vista DVD to your liking, to shrink the install. COOL. Now all I need is a Vista DVD and I'm good to go...

Close to finished!

I got everything for the computer working, got a new graphics card, hard drive and everything physical works. Now I need software, IE OSes. Screw Winblows. It's REALLY ANNOYING with Linux so far, because the MBR couldn't be overwritten, had to be first partition, whatever I'm done. I'm installing (so far) Ubuntu, and Slamd64 which is a 64-bit unofficial port of Slackware. Installed both of them with 100 gig partitions (logical) with a 100 gigs unallocated first partition in case I want Windows, and a 2 gig last partition for FreeDOS which I still need to install. I have 20 gigs (logical) for whatever else (I'm thinking PClinuxOS) and 300 gigs (logical) for data. Installed OpenArena on Slamd64 and haven't reboot into Ubuntu or ANYTHING yet.