gregb Posted December 1, 2009 Share Posted December 1, 2009 Recently built a pure x86_64 system entirely from source code that installs on a thumb drive. Uses gujin bootloader, uClibc + squashfs for small size, and aufs overlays for all the system directories. / partition is read only. Anyone tries anything I immediately get to see the modifications. It's a great feeling to be completely in control of your system. I know every piece of code that went into making it work. Anyone else in LOS crazy enough to enjoy this? It's great fun. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
niller74 Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Been building LFG systems a few times and they are actually quite fun. The biggest problem with LFS is the lack of package management, which means that it can be quite a task to find a series of packages that play together. Once you have a running systems package management and updating becomes a tedious task, that require a lot of almost daily research. Therefore I prefer the Tiny Gentoo approach that evolves around uClibc/Busybox. It gives you the same size as LFS, same compilation optimization and same good feeling at the end, but it also gives you access to package management. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_boo Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 These are the reasons that I love Linux. Being able to do what YOU want with it. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Crushdepth Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Would there be any advantage / performance gain in compiling a kernel / software for an Atom processor? Just looking for ways to speed up my netbook. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
dave_boo Posted December 2, 2009 Share Posted December 2, 2009 Would there be any advantage / performance gain in compiling a kernel / software for an Atom processor? Just looking for ways to speed up my netbook. Little. The Atom instruction set isn't that terribly advanced (say compared to the Core2) and there's already a lot of optimistations for it in the plain jane kernel. HOWEVER, a lot of times there are performance enhancements in newer kernels (that wouldn't be specific for Atom). For instance in 2,6,35+ x264 transcoding can be up to 50% faster in regards to FPS. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jobsworth Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 You guys are a little bit more advanced than me but I wish to catch up. I have discovered sun virtualbox and in addition to dual booting windows xp and ubuntu 9.10, I like to run windows xp on linux and linux on windows xp. There was a mini linux than ran on a 2GB usb drive but it often crashed and ran out of disk space if any packages were updated. Right now my problem is disk access on the host system. ie how to access c:\ on linux - done ie. how to access /home on Windows XP - more difficult. On Linux sudo mount.vboxsf windows-share /host works. But how do you do this on windows xp? Something to do with MiniGW which I don't really understand. I love this thread. Please say some more about what you are doing and how. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Supernova Posted December 20, 2009 Share Posted December 20, 2009 Right now my problem is disk access on the host system.ie how to access c:\ on linux - done ie. how to access /home on Windows XP - more difficult. On Linux sudo mount.vboxsf windows-share /host works. But how do you do this on windows xp? Ext2Fsd is an open source Linux ext2/ext3 file system driver for Windows. Provides support for both read/write access. Not sure if it will work under virtual machines though... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
joncl Posted January 14, 2010 Share Posted January 14, 2010 there is always the vmware player for both OS's and it is free .. but kind of defeats the purpose if you have dual boot. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gregb Posted February 12, 2010 Author Share Posted February 12, 2010 (edited) You guys are a little bit more advanced than me but I wish to catch up.I have discovered sun virtualbox and in addition to dual booting windows xp and ubuntu 9.10, I like to run windows xp on linux and linux on windows xp. There was a mini linux than ran on a 2GB usb drive but it often crashed and ran out of disk space if any packages were updated. Right now my problem is disk access on the host system. ie how to access c:\ on linux - done ie. how to access /home on Windows XP - more difficult. Don't know if jobsworth is still around as he posted this a couple of months ago, but I just saw it. Easiest way is just to go into the VirtualBox manager under Settings... Shared Folders and add /home to it. It will appear as a new drive letter under Windoze. You'll need to install "Guest Extensions" under the devices tab on the Windows guest OS to make this functional. Will take you about 2 minutes and a reboot of the Windows XP guest OS. VirtualBox is by far the best virtualization tool in my opinion. Extremely easy to use, and does not require virtualization primitives on the CPU in order to deliver good performance. It also allows for automatically dynamically resizable disks. Great feature if you run multiple guest OS's and don't have several TB of disk space to throw at the problem. Edit: After posting this I realize he may have been referring to running Windows as the host and Linux as the guest OS. Bit more of a tricky problem there. I would actually just place /home on shared disk from the XP side in this case. Otherwise you have to run Samba under Linux, export /home, and mount under the Windows XP host. I honestly don't have alot of experience with Windows as a host. It makes much more sense as a guest OS. Edited February 12, 2010 by gregb Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jdietz Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 the linux partitions are available through 'my network' in the XP virtual machine. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SeanMoran Posted February 12, 2010 Share Posted February 12, 2010 I've been running Linux from scratch (as a client OS) since the first Saturday in April last year, and never needed the Windows 98 since then, so that's gone for good. It's so easy now that even chimpanzees could do it. If you don't believe me that chimpanzees are online now, check out twitter and have a read. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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