<div dir="ltr">I've come to have all my linux stuff virtualized in a VMware environment. I can build a base VM to my specs and then just copy it as many times as I need.<div><br></div><div>I can only see the value in this if you are pushing it across a large environment (i.e., a Gold build) or if you want to distribute a customized, subject-focused distribution to others (e.g., Kali linux), or both (SELinux, Scientific linux). </div>
<div><br></div><div>In most of these cases, you're probably just taking another distribution and customizing it to where you like, rather than building completely from the ground up. If you take care to properly document the steps you followed to get to the finished customized product, then it should be relatively easy just to script the whole process out (i.e., install all the desired packages), and then copy any necessary configuration files from another source. This seems like it would offer a much higher effort:reward ratio if you don't fall into the aforementioned categories. </div>
<div><br></div><div>Case in point, a previous job I had was to install new server builds. We used Gentoo, which is a completely source-compiled distro (all packages are built from source). At the time, Gentoo did not have a boot-cd easy install, so our process involved booting the system into a small flavor of bootable linux, partitioning the drives, installing the bootloader, and then untarring a completely installed filesystem onto the disk. </div>
<div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div></div><div class="gmail_extra"><br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Jan 29, 2014 at 12:00 PM, Clay Dowling <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:clay@lazarusid.com" target="_blank">clay@lazarusid.com</a>></span> wrote:<br>
<blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex"><div class="im">-------- Original Message --------<br>
> Subject: Re: [GLLUG] Compiling Linux & Distros<br>
> Date: Wed, 29 Jan 2014 11:53:51 -0500<br>
> From: Mike <<a href="mailto:mgoppold5@yahoo.com">mgoppold5@yahoo.com</a>><br>
> To: Patrick Goupell <<a href="mailto:patrick@upmerchants.com">patrick@upmerchants.com</a>><br>
><br>
> Thanks for all the replies people--good info.<br>
><br>
> I guess I'm fancy. PURPOSE: If I like a distro, it'd be nice to run a<br>
> program that builds a whole install cd. Then check checksums with<br>
> download CDs. This BSD build world process sounds rather good.<br>
><br>
</div>I cannot recommend it if you can avoid it. BSD style builds are long<br>
and unpleasantly complicated.<br>
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Clay<br>
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