Re: [Trinux-talk] Sources

[John C. <ja...@fi...>]

I'm interested in the same thing.  This is what I've figured out so far.
(Matthew -- let me know if I'm wrong on anything.)

1) All of the original code I've seen evidence of in Trinux are in shell
scripts, so in a way you already have the source but just don't know it.

2) Much of this is actually stored in a compressed minux file system on
the boot disk -- initrd.gz.  You can poke around this / modify it by
using the loop back device.  Let me know if you don't know how to do
this and I'll find the applicable HOWTO for you.  I think Matt also has
a copy of this in a variety of formats under the "bleeding edge" link on
the site.

3) The kernel is straight from Linus' Linux sources.

4) The config files for the kernel can be found the web site, at
http://trinux.sourceforge.net/kernel/2.4.13/.  Note that this is for
2.4.13, and 2.4.5 is the kernel that the current boot disks use.
I don't think it makes too much difference, though... I wanted to use
the modified Mandrake stock kernel 2.4.8 (it has XFS and other goodies)
and with a little hacking I got it to compile and it works great.

5) The packages are mostly binaries, but in most cases you can get the
sources directly from the maintainer of the original software.

6) There's an ISO script in the download section on sourceforge which
automates creating a CD ROM.

So, if you are interested in making your new system from scratch, I think
you've got a great example here.  The only things I can see that might
be missing are:

1) Any scripts Matt may have done to automate the packaging process.
2) Any patches that may have been needed to packages
3) I don't know what was involved in some of the base packages like the
libraries, etc.

The reason I haven't seen these is that they might not exist.  Matt may
have just packaged things manually and stolen the libraries from
another distro (I think he built this on Slackware)

I hope this helps!

John


On Sat, Nov 17, 2001 at 11:27:44PM +0000, AxE Online wrote:
> Hi, I was wondering, where the source to trinux would be? I want to try to 
> eventualy make my own OS (or at leaste my own linux distro.). So I'm getting 
> 
> as much source for example as I can, but I cant find the trinux source code. 
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> -AxE
> 
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