Re: Bleeding eyes.

On Friday 20 August 2004 01:09 pm, whitty reeve wrote:
> Compiling everything from source makes my eyes bleed.
> Dear god, make it stop, please make it stop!
>
> Heh, i started an LFS (linux from scratch) build, and it works like a
> charm. I spent 3 days compiling a system that has NOTHING to it. So, now
> that I've build a nothing system, i have to go through BLFS (beyond linux
> from scratch) to get an actual useable system.
>
> Now comes the important part: Linux from scratch wasn't nearly as hard as i
> thought it would be, besides a few errors that took a while to work
> around., there was nothing to it. It was....extremely monotonous. The main
> reason i started was because I was getting fed up with the little things
> about slackware. So, I decided that i would start from scratch, and here
> you have it. Great learning experiance. I think that everybody should
> create one sooner or later, just for the learning experiance.
>
> Whitty

YEAH! It's ABSOLUTELY in my future. Right not it's only a line in the "In The Future" list though.

questions:
What kinda hardware is it on?
What was the hardest thing to config?
What kernel?
How helpful are the docs/forums? Any gotchas?
Anything ya can think of...

bests,
eddie

PS: congrats ;)

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Received on Fri Aug 20 13:28:11 2004