Gowator Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Yeah, i'm more focused on the learning experience as pointed out..I guess this would take a long time though As Steve says you don't need to finish it to learn loads! Why not make a vmware session and build it in that? You can keep your working stuff and also you can copy settings and stuff you already figured out. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Qchem Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 If you've not already tried it, installing gentoo (using the old installer) or perhaps even arch could be a good learning experience in itself. Once you've got the hang of that you'll probably know whether or not to try LFS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wakish Posted August 25, 2006 Author Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 (edited) Gowator and Qchem, you guys made a nice suggestion!! @Gowator: For the vmware session, any hint or website where i could make a start? *having a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware* ;) @Qchem: Which one should i go for? Regards! Edited August 25, 2006 by wakish Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mystified Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 I would definitely recommend installing Gentoo using the old method. I do a stage 2 install that is completely done using cli from a chroot environment. I really learned a lot that way and I found it far more interesting that installing LFS. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
scarecrow Posted August 25, 2006 Report Share Posted August 25, 2006 Being an Arch diehard, I'd also say go Gentoo. Reason: Arch CAN be used as a source distro, and have everything compiled by yourself- and more than that, building an AURBUILD for advanced users is way easier than building a Gentoo ebuild. But Arch is mainly a binary distro (building and installing painlessly from source is just an extra option), not a source one, and aurbuild is way less flexible than emerge- if you aren't interested in creating your own packages. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Gowator Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 (edited) Gowator and Qchem, you guys made a nice suggestion!! @Gowator: For the vmware session, any hint or website where i could make a start? *having a look at http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/VMware* ;) @Qchem: Which one should i go for? Regards! Answering Qchem's question first.... if you are using vmware and have disk space then ... its up to you.... you can do all three? I think you should download the installation for each one and read it and decide for yourself.... All of them are basically following instructions.... its up to you how much you wanna jump in at the deep end. Gentoo install guides are pretty much faultless.... you follow it and you can't go wrong. LFS sometimes you do a bit of extra reading but ... @me http://www.vmware.com/products/server/ strictly speaking you don't need the server once its running but ??? its a free download. edits: VMWARE server also does snapshots.... this is very cool for what you want.... you can make a snapshot and bork it beyond belief and then restore it. I would also consider a Debian netinstall (but Im a Debian junkie) ... if you do and you want the learning experience then set the dpkg options to verbose and full prompting. Its like writing the files yourself without actually having to write the whole thing and if you get stuck you can --reconfgure and accept defaults! Edited August 26, 2006 by Gowator Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Steve Scrimpshire Posted August 26, 2006 Report Share Posted August 26, 2006 Wow. I'm glad I have been watching this thread. I did not know that VMWare Server was now free with paid support options. It was ridiculously too expensive for me to try it before. Carry on. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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