[sf-lug] [Made from scratch]

[Rick Moen]

Quoting aaronco36 (aaronco36 at SDF.ORG):

> for your consideration that instead of solving a particular "what
> problem" or learning how to "do diagnosis", in the more general
> sense maestro likely wants the admirable goal (IMHO) of simply
> gaining some hands-on experience and a fuller _learning_ of how one
> would "do a distro build from 'scratch'meaning 'naked' hard drive
> and possibly even reflashing BIOS" (from reference [1]).

That would amount to:  'The problem I want to solve is gaining experience
installing a Linux distribution and reflashing a computer BIOS.'

(I wasn't going to delve into why Maestro's wording about 'building' 
was weird, incoherent, and misleading.  Instead, I've just substituted
what he seems to have meant.)

I'm really quite unclear on _why_ exactly those two things are of
interest, as stated, but whatever floats his boat.  

> Another source for my own distinct impression of this learning goal
> is the quote further down in maestro's previous post of [1]:
> ~~~~~~~~~~ quoting ~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> This building of a distro is especially good for newer users and
> those wanting to improve their command line [that's what you type in
> the terminal when someone asks you to open one ;-)) ] in a friendly
> NON-judgemental. NON-narcissistic, environment which hopefully the
> teachers and other experienced users will be keen to help and answer
> questions and cuss at things with you...
> ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~

Well, I wasn't going to get into why Maestro's bit about 'commend line' 
was weird and seemed to have nothing to do with distribution installers,
either.  There's only so much time one has to waste on such things.  
It seemed a lot more economical of time to just ask what the man wanted
to do, and why.

And, of course, the first and most important question was:  'How much
RAM?'  I notice he's now made two _further_ postings to the thread he
started, but not addressed (not even to say 'Dunno, but I'll find out') 
that very fundamental question.

So, I guess he's not serious, and as usual, just wants to do what he
wants to do in his own way and disregard expert advice.