[conspire] Setting Up Partitions for LFS

[Mark Srebnik]

That would keep me busy for quite awhile, Nick... ;-)

I agree that I'm sure that you'd get a lot out of it...

Onward & upward....

Mark

-----Original Message-----
>From: Nick Moffitt <nick at zork.net>
>Sent: Mar 25, 2008 6:52 AM
>To: conspire at linuxmafia.com
>Subject: Re: [conspire] Setting Up Partitions for LFS
>
>Breen Mullins:
>> But I'd start with a stock distro system - Fedora, Ubuntu, you name it.
>> And spend some time really understanding that one. Read the initscripts. 
>> All of them. Then read the config files in /etc, and the stuff in 
>> /usr/doc. You'll be surprised at how many times you say "I didn't know 
>> _that_ was in there!".
>
>I recall Rick telling me of something similar he did about 15 years ago:
>he basically ran "man /usr/man/*/*" (which today would be
>/usr/share/man/*/*) and over the course of a few months skim-read every
>manual page on the system.  You glaze past a lot of information without
>context (and I guess actually you'd have to be a C programmer to enjoy
>sections 2 and 3 at least), but he said he tucked away a lot of little
>facts that came in handy later.
>
>I think you'll find mousing through /usr/share/doc to be more rewarding,
>these days, as that starts with higher-level per-package documentation
>on most systems.  If you're curious about a package's individual
>commands you can always run "apropos <packagename>" and that may turn up
>the names of manual pages associated with the package.
>
>-- 
>"If you carefully examine the intercal package (which       Nick Moffitt
>was not available for a month despite emails about it      nick at zork.net
>being a 404), you will discover that . is in ESR's
>PATH."   -- Joey Hess
>
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