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[strredwolf]

It's 9pm on a Sunday night and I'm considering phoenixing my laptop and slapping in a Linux-From-Scratch distro.

I mean, I have Slackware 8.1 on it, and I see a good amount of bloat on it for a near-800 meg HD. I doubt I could do any better with RedHat, Mandrake, Debian...

Gentoo I'm not sure of. It's the eaziest to install but to truly install it, I have to netboot the ISO image.... which gets me intro some trouble because I have to insmod the drivers for the PCMCIA network card before netbooting.

Linux From Scratch I can try out, but it requires a bit more finnese that I'm really willing to tolerate. I'm spoiled on Gentoo's abilities.

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[vanvanarmo.livejournal.com]

I recommend CoreDistro. Slapped the tarballs on a second HD, booted muLinux, installed and built from there. Requires willingness to compile a whole lot of stuff yourself.

LFS didn't work out for me, but some parts of the install howto were valuable.

[strredwolf.livejournal.com]

I'm very tempted to take Linux From Scratch and create WolfSkunk Linux as an automated LFS.