[FADCA] Nice Linux teaching tools

[Chuck Hast]

For those of you who would like to learn more about how to "roll your own" linux
here are two documents that do a very good job at doing so.
The first one "From Power up to Bash"
really digs down into what the system is doing as it goes from power up to a
command line promt. 
http://web.rsise.anu.edu.au/~okeefe/p2b/
It will teach you what is going on as the system starts up and the bios hands
off to the kernel and the whole thing is booted up.

The second one "Linux from scratch" teaches you how to build up a linux system
to fit your needs, from a floppy based system used as a firewall to a full blown
GUI based system, this document will give you some very good information as how
to do it. It takes you along a path of doing the different pieces and
getting familiar
with Linux sysems, if you already know Unix you are well down the road.
This document will show the great flexability that is inherent in
LInux, and why it
is quietly becoming a quiet giant in many areas of operation.
The document can be read from the web or you can download the whole thing
and have it on your computer, makes for some fun on long airplane rides, moreso
if you have a "work partition" on your laptop that you can boot into and spend
those hours building and testing.
This page will give you a list of sites to download the document.
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/

Go forth, and have fun!



-- 
Chuck Hast 
To paraphrase my flight instructor;
"the only dumb question is the one you DID NOT ask resulting in my going
out and having to identify your bits and pieces in the midst of torn
and twisted metal."