[gobolinux-users] gobolinux on x86_64

[Hisham Muhammad]

On 10/3/07, Arsène Dernière <gigotdagneau at gmail.com> wrote:
> Hi everybody,

Hello,

> I couldn't try gobolinux with the liveCd (kernel panic and such things).

Was that with 013 or with the latest snapshot? If it was with 013,
please try the latest snapshot:
http://www.gobolinux.org/iso/GoboLinux-014pre20070927.iso
If it was already with the snapshot, please report a bug in
http://bugs.gobolinux.org
every bit of information added to the report (messages on screen, etc) helps.

> Since a while I also want to take a try with LFS.
>
> So I am wondering if I would be able to ally both and, like Mr Hisham
> H. Muhammad and Mr André Detsch did at the beging, create the whole
> system from scratch. I have already prepared the first tools to be
> able to compile a pure 64 clfs system.

Nowadays, it would probably be easier to do this using the GoboLinux
Bootstrap tool from within a GoboLinux system.

http://gobolinux.org/?page=doc/articles/going_embedded

(Ah, from my part at least, feel free to drop the Mr. :) I'm sure Mr.
Detsch agrees ';) )

> The point is: I'm more like a newbie and don't know enough about the
> "legacy" stuff and need help to know when I have to use/include the
> gobolinux specific tools in my new system, when and/or how delete the
> 'root' user and create the 'administrator' user(s), and so on...

Well, that's the tricky part and going through it all would equate
doing a LFS-to-GoboLinux how-to. I haven't had the time to dedicate to
this, but more people have shown interest in the past. This is the
kind of work that could benefit from being done as a group project.

> I don't know if this mailing list is the one I have to go with my
> questions. I already had some mail exchanges with the lfs and clfs
> mailing lists.
>
> I hope having answers, even if it is : go, try but don't disturb us
> with those questions.

My answer is "go, try, but I recommend getting some more experience
with LFS and GoboLinux first." It's worth noting that when we did what
became GoboLinux 001 I had already been using an 80%-or-so converted
system so I already knew many of the tricks for "Gobo-ifying" packages
(fortunately those tricks are documented as Compile recipes nowadays).
Learning about Compile (even if running it with Rootless GoboLinux
inside another distribution) would help the process a lot as well.

So, in short, it's doable, but you'll save a lot of work if you spend
some time learning all those bits and pieces first.

Hope that helps,

-- Hisham