[rescue] Re: OpenBSD

[Joshua D Boyd]

On Sun, Jan 27, 2002 at 07:50:57AM -0800, Robert Novak wrote:
> On Sun, 27 Jan 2002, Linc Fessenden wrote:
> 
> > > anything because they all use different "distros".  Slackware, Debian, 
> > > Dead-Rat, Mandrake, Yellow Dog, ...just pick one people!
> > 
> > We did pick one - it's called using the source.  Works on every
> > distro.  Imagine that.
> 
> Is there a feasible way to install Linux without a distribution? I'm
> pretty sure you can't bootstrap from pure source, unless your BIOS is much
> more powerful than anything I've ever used.
> 
> I guess the closest you can get is what Bill referred to... minimal/custom
> install of a distribution (regardless of OS), bootstrap gcc and
> binutils(?), then rebuild everything you can get source for (easier for
> Linux/*BSD than for Solaris/Ultrix/HPUX/Irix/Dynix/DGUX/Tru64/OSF1/etc...)


If you have a working linux system, you can use it to build another system from
scratch without using a distribution.  You need a way to read/write/format 
ext2 filesystems, and a way to compile stuff for linux.  crosscompiling from
a non intel system might not be good enough due to needed as86.

-- 
Joshua D. Boyd