Go for it - it's a great idea for a learning project. Way back in the 2.0.x kernel days I built a network bootable 'distro', and what I learned back then has been of great benefit to me over the years. (It's kind of scary when you can't remember what year something happened, but you can remember a kernel version...) Justin Haaheim wrote: > > What's wrong with just taking Knoppix, stripping out everything > you don't > > want, put in what you do want, slapping your own label on it, and > calling it > > golden? Klaus Knopper has done a wonderful job with all the hardware > > detection and running from RAM issues, so why not build off the > shoulders of > > giants, rather than work from the ground up? > > I'm doing this as much more of a heuristic venture than anything > practical. I'd like to know more about linux, and it seems like an > interesting project. Also, Knoppix is pretty complicated (using > compression and such); more than I'd be able to delve into without some > serious mentorship. > > justin > > > Peter Clark wrote: > > > On Monday 10 March 2003 02:50 pm, Justin Haaheim wrote: > > > >> I'm interested in creating my own Knoppix-like, minimalistic and > >> initially very simple Live (to be run from a cd) linux distro. My idea > >> was to use Debian as the base system. I'm more familiar with RedHat, > >> but I'd imagine that there's some copyright infringement problems if I > >> modify redhat and call it my own. > > > > > > Well, it's been a couple of years since I've touched The Horror > That Must Not Be Named, but last I checked, most of RH is Free software, > so all you would have to do is remove anything that is under their > copyright and remove all instances of "Red Hat" from any files. > > > >> Does anyone have any guidance or any resources you would like to > provide > >> me? Any pointers, websites, documentation, etc. would be useful. I'm > >> specifically wondering, now, how I would configure the distro to run > its > >> rw memory from ram. > > > > > > What's wrong with just taking Knoppix, stripping out everything > you don't want, put in what you do want, slapping your own label on it, > and calling it golden? Klaus Knopper has done a wonderful job with all > the hardware detection and running from RAM issues, so why not build off > the shoulders of giants, rather than work from the ground up? > > :Peter > > > > > > _______________________________________________ > Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, > Minnesota > http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org > https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list > > _______________________________________________ Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota http://www.mn-linux.org tclug-list at mn-linux.org https://mailman.real-time.com/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list