Sunday, January 25, 2009

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...

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