ok, so maybe we're at aloofix v2.0

Here's another in the Aloofix series.

hah! Big surprise! Another workbench change!

So here's the story,

I've been noodling with several different distro development tools. I like several of them, but each has at least one attribute or another that drives me nuts.

This brings us to...



Version 0.8 of my workbench.

I ditched the distro builders altogether, opting for a 'hand-rolled' distribution.

To be sure, this is most likely how the other distribution building tools were created. *sigh*

As of this evening, I now have a bootable CD, a set of installation scripts run from the CD, and a HD that boots a basic distro. It's raw, but it works.

The HD distribution currently contains the following packages:

• linux-2.6.23
• glibc-2.7
• busybox-1.8.2

I'll spare you the nigglies in the TODO list.

The CD image is 20MB. Approximately 16MB of this is a gzipped cpio payload for the HD installation. The vast majority of the payload is glibc.

Will there be a version 0.9 of the workbench? I sure hope not. With any luck, future revisions will simply be improvements in the level of automation for creating the images. Having said this...

For what it's worth, I did get a complete LAMP stack build using the previous workbench, but I wasn't in the mood to man-handle uclibc to get some of the more interesting scripting languages up and running.