Net Llama! wrote:
On Wed, 29 Jan 2003, Douglas J Hunley wrote:right.. but he had minix.. which is where linux came from if Im not mistaken.. NOT that he took minix and hacked it into linux, but that he created linux ON minux..
m.w.chang spewed electrons into the ether that resembled:I think he meant, how do you create an OS when you have nothing. Using
We now got Knoppix and Gentoo that basically boot you into a working linux.I've just been booting off knoppix, mounting the bare hard drive, and building
how could you start building a system using instructions on
linuxfromscratch if you don't even have any linux distribution?
kind of like what Mr. Trovald got when he wrote linux-0.1. can one walk
in his shoes?
LFS onto the hard drive. or is this not what you meant?
Knoppix is kinda cheating, cause you're using the OS to create the OS.
Linus didn't have Linux to self-host his original kernel.
kinda like if I made a new OS jimbix on xenix or something... =)
-j
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