for some reason i would like to know what goes into making my own distro. what languages would i need to know, how to create my own installer, if it is needed to make my own packaging system or if i could use... say *.deb or *.rpm. i am not knowing why i want to know this but i just want to know.

i am currently using Debian Woody built off of just the base system but as i read the LFS documentation (4.1) i am realizing that my current system isn't as close to LFS as i thought. then i got to thinking about making my own distro to share with everyone once i come up with an idea of something cool. now i am starting to think that i am not up to this. so before i stop looking for the knowledge completely (i have been looking for answers for the last 8 hours) i am going to ask for help on where to get the answers.

p.s. if none of this makes sense that is due to the fact that i have been staring at a computer screen for the last 8 hours and my eyes hurt to the point i can't think without concentrating hard.

i don't know how helpful this will be, but seeing as how there are currently 0 replies, it's better than nothing.

http://www.fokus.fhg.de/linux/LDP/ru...00000000000000

this has some basic instructions for creating your own linux distro to fit on a 1.44M floppy.

You might wanna look at ALFS, Gentoo, or simply the LFS/BLFS books.

These should give you some sort of an idea of where to go with the idea. Don't be discouraged by this, but, maybe a distro has everything you want already:
www.distrowatch.com
OR
do what you want

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