tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-129108242011-04-21T20:33:36.808-04:00Building Linux From Scratch.Davidnoreply@blogger.comBlogger101100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12910824.post-1117338699311781612005-05-28T23:32:00.000-04:002005-05-29T00:14:21.796-04:00

Damn! I thought I got to step 5.3 succesfully, but then nothing.Early today, I wiped my machine clean of Mandrake 8.2 and installed Fedora Core 3.0 --- which I'm not happy about at all. The interface is just crappy and it seems to take much longer to boot up. houg the good thing about using Fedora is that it boots using Grub, so at least I won't have to deal with switching from Lilo like I

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Moving along Introduction to Linux. I've finished Chapters 7, 8 and 9, covering Home, the X Window System, Printing and the Fundamentals of Backup. Hmm, backup that will have to be something I need to address.I have been looking at getting Firefox on my laptop, but my distro (Mandrake 8.2) is so old that it would be a giant production to add everything I need to install Firefox. So I posted a

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There is that nagging thought that I should have entitled this blog, "Learning Linux" or Learning Unix." OTOH, I think that "Building LFS" won't be stopping at LFS 6.0.Today was a good day. I read through Chapters 5, 6 and most of 7 in Introduction to Linux as well as went throught the vimtutor. Because of that I was able to edit my .bashrc to silence the damn system bell with setterm -

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I've finished reading/completing Chapters 3 and 4 of Machtelt Garrels' Introduction to Linux. These chapters covered the file system and processes respectively. Also, Chapters 1, 2 and 3 (almost done) of Michael Stutuz' The Linux Cookbook, that is "The Introudction", "What Every Linux User Knows" and "The Shell"> Currently ReadingEssention pre-reading for life with LFS by Richard A. Downing (

Davidnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12910824.post-1116560371843606482005-05-19T23:13:00.000-04:002005-05-19T23:39:31.846-04:00

Besides letting life interfere with my pursuit of Linux, some things have been figured out.I've connected my laptop to the internet, though it is through Xwindows, so I dont' know if that really counts.I needed to switch from an old version of xkfc to an equally old version of KDE, which I found out through Negene's article at tuxfiles.com, Changing the default window manager - 1.0"I've finished

Davidnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12910824.post-1116301189331993902005-05-16T22:44:00.000-04:002005-05-16T23:50:11.396-04:00

Still reading Intro to Linux and I am almost finished with Chapter 3: About files and the file system. This is an overview on how the files and directories are structured as well several useful commands ls, grep, which, df, and echo. There is also some discussion about paths and links. I also looked up what a journaled file system was.Tomorrow I delve into file security and then Processes.*******

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Machtlelts Tille's Introduction to Linux: A Hands on Guide is fresh and clean. She has divided up the book into several sections: What is Linux?, Quickstart, About files and the file system, Processes, I/O redirection, Text editors, Home sweet/home, Printers and printing, Fundamental Backup Techniques, Networking, and several appendixes. The book could could be considered a class since each

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Eric Raymond may probably be best known for his never-ending book, The Cathedral and the Bazaar, which looks at two distinct software development models, but he is also the maintainer of many open-source software, FAQs, and HTML documents. One of them, The Unix and Internet Fundamentals HOWTO "describes the working basics of PC-class computers, Unix-like operationg systems, and the Internet in

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Okay, not being connected to the internet is for the birds. I've downloaded all the source code for LFS as well as the HTML version of LFS. I have to burn these files on to a CD and sneakernet them over to my laptop. Two other problems. I want to stay a the prompt as much as possible, rather than running Xwindows. How am I expected to learn vi if I am viewing all my documention in HTML?! .bz2

Davidnoreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-12910824.post-1116155137692603422005-05-12T20:40:00.000-04:002005-05-15T07:18:38.866-04:00

Why do I want to build my own Linux From Scratch box? Basically, I've always have been able to build a Linux computer, but I have never used it. So, I feel that if I compile my own box, maybe, just maybe I'll use it more. And then there is work. Most of our primary servers run some sort of Unix on them and I can only get so far using ls, mv, cp and a very limited knowledge of vi. I also came

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