Re: building a boot disk
*-"tracheotomy_bob" <tracheotomy_bob@iname.com>
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| I would really like to be able to build a system up from scratch. While I appreciate the excellence that is debian, I find that for understanding how everything fits together building a system up from scratch helps. Initially I only had the debian install disks, and I had to ftp XFree86 myself and it seemed to make sense, so now I want to do the same for a complete system. I need to be able to download EVERY component from the net and cobble together a boot disk, then be able to ftp the rest or copy it off some other media (disk or cd). Ideally the building of a boot disk sould be able to be done under any OS, but I'll bow to the groups wisdom in that aspect.
| If someone can supply some good pointers or and idiot proof guide then I'd be grateful. This is probably a really stupid idea but I want to do it anyway.
Have a look at the package boot-floppies. It can be used to build
bootdisks, but you can also glean at the script to figure out how
to do it manually.
Personally I think it is a good idea if you have the time. You
could still have Debian as your main work-partition, and use your
homebuild partition for fun and learning. Expect to screw up that one.
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