Re: New LFS user: introduction

2006-01-26 Thread Ryan Moszynski
i would just like to say that as a college student, I built my first LFS because i was trying to build kernels myself in mepis, kept failing, and i thought it was all my fault until while building LFS finding out that the official kernel documentation was outdated. Since building LFS(with a little

Re: New LFS user: introduction

2006-01-25 Thread Ag Hatzim
Richard A Downing([EMAIL PROTECTED])@Wed, Jan 25, 2006 at 10:54:11AM +: > I don't expect Niki will have any trouble - his English is excellent - > and he is planning ahead. > > "No plan survives contact with the enemy" Gen. McArthur (I think) > "No plans at all! Just full speed ahead!" me.

Re: New LFS user: introduction

2006-01-25 Thread Dan Nicholson
On 1/25/06, Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > After all, I'm not a developer, only a (very) curious user. I think that describes most of the people here. I know it describes me. > One question, just on the curious side: how did you schedule your LFS > experience when you first gave it a t

Re: New LFS user: introduction

2006-01-25 Thread Richard A Downing
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:24:42 + Alan Lord <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Richard A Downing wrote: > > On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:03:24 +0100 > > Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > >> Hi, > It doesn't actually take that long as long as you READ the book > CAREFULLY. (There have been quite

Re: New LFS user: introduction

2006-01-25 Thread Niki Kovacs
Le Mercredi 25 Janvier 2006 10:24, Alan Lord a écrit : > A few days (leaving the big builds to run overnight, glibc, gcc) is all > that it will take to get to the end of "the book". But that's just the > beginning :-) Getting your new Linux to do what you want will take the > time and that's where

Re: New LFS user: introduction

2006-01-25 Thread Alan Lord
Richard A Downing wrote: On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:03:24 +0100 Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: Hi, I'm an Austrian writer living in Montpezat (South France), and a 100% GNU/Linux user since 2001. Excellent, you are the 'Target Audience'. Welcome to LFS. One question, just on the curi

Re: New LFS user: introduction

2006-01-25 Thread Richard A Downing
On Wed, 25 Jan 2006 09:03:24 +0100 Niki Kovacs <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Hi, > > I'm an Austrian writer living in Montpezat (South France), and a 100% > GNU/Linux user since 2001. Excellent, you are the 'Target Audience'. Welcome to LFS. > One question, just on the curious side: how did y

New LFS user: introduction

2006-01-25 Thread Niki Kovacs
Hi, I'm an Austrian writer living in Montpezat (South France), and a 100% GNU/Linux user since 2001. My Linux experience: began with Slackware (8.0 IIRC) on an old 486, moved on to a more performing PC and eventually to other distros (Mandrake, Debian, Gentoo, Libranet, SUSE, ...) only to find