I've spent the last couple of days searching the web for this, but no luck.
Does anyone know where I can find info to manually build a linux system (software, not hw) from scratch? I want to do this for the learning, not for usability. Details: In the DOS world, I know that you have to fdisk and format and have two special files in the boot sector region of your boot disk as well as a command.com (which can be thought of as a kernel). I know that config.sys adds functionaality to the "kernel" and autoexec.bat is a "script" that runs at startup. I know that Windows then loads on top of that. Etc. What I want to do is basically have the same level of knowledge about the Linux boot process. The best way I know to do this is to do it manually. I've already fdisk'd and mkefs'd my hard drive (after booting off a floppy). Now I need to copy the Linux kernel to the hard drive in the proper place and see if I can boot off the hard drive (but can I use the floppy and tell it where to find the kernel?. Do I need to run lilo to get the boot sector set up? Do I have to have an init file and/or rc scripts, etc? (for a usable system, "yes", but remember, I don't care about usability so much as I care about a bare minimal functionality, even if it only lets me boot and do an ls or cat or cp, etc). Any pointers to this kind of info would be appreciated. Thanks! -- Kent West [EMAIL PROTECTED] KC5ENO - Amateur Radio: When all else fails. Linux - Finally! A real OS for the Intel PC!
