You know you're a geek when........

[talsemgeest]

didn't know what to search for. thanks. off to learning to write in binary!

Oh please don't. This thread has had WAY too much binary, it gets really annoying now.

[pp.]

Oh please don't. This thread has had WAY too much binary, it gets really annoying now.

Well, we could start writing in base26 for a change.

[Kopachris]

Well, we could start writing in base26 for a change.

Ykyagw you have a hard time deciding which method you want to use for making a distro.

[anewguy]

You know you're a geek when.....the significant others asks you to "wait just a little bit" and you are confused - there's something smaller than a bit?

[Barrucadu]

there's something smaller than a bit?

What? Madness!

[Kopachris]

<thinkingtoself>I'm still having a hard time deciding how to go about making a distro. I don't really want to just make a customized installation of an existing distro (such as Ubuntu), because it seems a bit messy. What I want to do is install every package I need from scratch. But how would I do it? I think that I'll build LFS up to the point where we chroot, adding the building of dpkg. Then I'll download all the .deb packages I need and install them from within the chroot. Hmm... Would that work?</thinkingtoself>
Hey, could I build an LFS system up to the point where you chroot, then compile dpkg and install all of the packages I need to build a distro?

Ykyagw you use XML tags to think to yourself on forums.

EDIT: No, it's going to be different than that... Let me rephrase the question: can you use dpkg to install a package onto another partition?

EDIT2: Looks like I answered my own question. Just use dpkg -i -root=/media/disk packagename.deb to install under a different root. I'm guessing that's how Ubuquity works?

[scragar]

EDIT2: Looks like I answered my own question. Just use dpkg -i -root=/media/disk packagename.deb to install under a different root. I'm guessing that's how Ubuquity works?

I think ubiquity sets up the initial file system, the uses that method to install dpkg and apt, after that it uses chroot and let's apt do all the hard work.

I could be wrong though, it just makes more sense.

[Kopachris]

I think ubiquity sets up the initial file system, the uses that method to install dpkg and apt, after that it uses chroot and let's apt do all the hard work.

I could be wrong though, it just makes more sense.

Okay, so I guess I'll set up the initial filesystem hierarchy manually (or as manually as the terminal gets, anyway), I'll cp /bin and /sbin, follow LFS's instructions for /dev, then use "dpkg --root=" to install dpkg, then I'll chroot and use dpkg from there to install everything else in one go (dpkg -i *.deb) and I'll see if I can compile a custom kernel (last time I did it, it wouldn't boot either kernel).

I guess I'll be doing a lot of sorting today. There are a lot of packages I don't want, and a lot that I want to replace (such as evolution-server). I'd like to replace as many "ubuntu" packages with as many generic packages as possible. I might keep the Ubuntu Firefox, though. Installing add-ons through Add/Remove Programs is really nice. There's also quite a few programs that I like to have, but I don't want to include in DOS. XBMC is one, and Rosegarden is another. Although, if Amarok requires the KDE libs that Rosegarden requires, I might keep Rosegarden. I also don't want to include VirtualBox. Too big. People can install that one themselves.

[hatten]

You know you're a geek when you get mad at your computer because it works when it shouldn't, in your opinion.

[projecthikari]

You know you're a geek when you were little, you wanted to Marry Dexter from Dexter's lab. Reasons: He's a genuis, He's got a cool lab, his accent is hot.

...And then, even to this day, He's you're dream man, and you wish you could have a total nerdo like him as a boyfriend. Especially in his rededigned state:
http://farm2.static.flickr.com/1378/...a84a1b.jpg?v=0

Wow. Even I'M embarassed for myself. I've been watching a little too much Cartoon Network lately. XD