Re: stripping down lfs

2010-06-24 Thread Eric Miller
thanks robert, thats helpful On Thu, Jun 24, 2010 at 9:44 AM, Robert A. Lerche wrote: > I built a customized (somewhat stripped, then other things added) LFS > back in April, 2009. It's based on the 6.3 LFS live CD with packages > updated to the 6.4 book (current at the time). > > The LFS live

Re: stripping down lfs

2010-06-24 Thread Robert A. Lerche
I built a customized (somewhat stripped, then other things added) LFS back in April, 2009. It's based on the 6.3 LFS live CD with packages updated to the 6.4 book (current at the time). The LFS live CD is a very good starting point. I haven't explored other (even more stripped) alternatives like

Re: stripping down lfs

2010-06-23 Thread Eric Miller
checking out tinycore nowlooks very promising, thanks. On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 8:51 PM, Smartboy wrote: > On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Eric Miller > wrote: > > im not familiar with busybox...it doesn't look like a stand alone distro, > > but rather a rollup of basic linux essentials in

Re: stripping down lfs

2010-06-23 Thread Smartboy
On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 5:13 PM, Eric Miller wrote: > im not familiar with busybox...it doesn't look like a stand alone distro, > but rather a rollup of basic linux essentials in one package. > > so, you guys are suggesting that i put busybox on a stripped down LFS system > and rock out with that?

Re: stripping down lfs

2010-06-23 Thread Neal Murphy
On Wednesday 23 June 2010 19:25:52 Eric Miller wrote: > hey all...haven't been here since 2002 lolz. > > I'm hoping to build a stripped down LFS to use on a livecd that will do one > thing only: present the user with a simple scripted text menu, and then > (based on the menu input) .dd an image to

Re: stripping down lfs

2010-06-23 Thread Mike McCarty
Eric Miller wrote: > hey all...haven't been here since 2002 lolz. > > I'm hoping to build a stripped down LFS to use on a livecd that will do one > thing only: present the user with a simple scripted text menu, and then > (based on the menu input) .dd an image to a usb thumb drive. You might con

Re: stripping down lfs

2010-06-23 Thread Eric Miller
im not familiar with busybox...it doesn't look like a stand alone distro, but rather a rollup of basic linux essentials in one package. so, you guys are suggesting that i put busybox on a stripped down LFS system and rock out with that? yes the .dd images (there are two of them to choose from) wi

Re: stripping down lfs

2010-06-23 Thread Bruce Dubbs
Eric Miller wrote: > hey all...haven't been here since 2002 lolz. > > I'm hoping to build a stripped down LFS to use on a livecd that will do one > thing only: present the user with a simple scripted text menu, and then > (based on the menu input) .dd an image to a usb thumb drive. > > That's it

stripping down lfs

2010-06-23 Thread Eric Miller
hey all...haven't been here since 2002 lolz. I'm hoping to build a stripped down LFS to use on a livecd that will do one thing only: present the user with a simple scripted text menu, and then (based on the menu input) .dd an image to a usb thumb drive. That's it. boots, runs the menu, dds the