On 2015-05-01, Richard Owlett <rowlett@cloud85.net> wrote:
I'm doing a self-education project to answer "How is *nix put
together?"
Projects whose documentation I have found useful include:
"Linux From Scratch" http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/
"Voyage Linux" http://linux.voyage.hk/about
"Debian From Scratch"
https://web.archive.org/web/20080416005430/http://people.debian.org/~jgoerzen/dfs/html/dfs.html
Right now I'm chasing down links to that later. I've retrieved
(from lenny archives) dfsbuild_1.0.2.0_i386.deb . As the oldest
Debian I have available is Squeeze I can foresee compatibility
problems as well as learning to use the tools provided by dfsbuild.
http://snapshot.debian.org/
If I'm understanding the question.