Newbie experience

Hi there, happy to meet you !

I am looking at those "funny" things called meta distributions and there 
are many around, though less than distributions...

So soon there will be more and more Linux distributions to deal with... 
I don't know what to think about it, you know, the compatibility stuff, 
but anyway I like the idea of having my own system ! Well, built with 
the bricks of all those brilliant Linux developers...

Then I found T2 and felt interested in it because of its support of 
several architectures and OSes, and its design though I have to dive 
more deeply in it to appreciate at full !

The documentation, the book is interesting and I would surely be a buyer 
when it is sold !

Sometime before, I had burnt a CD with the 6.03 and could not figure out 
what to do with it. Had not to much time at this moment so I gave it up 
for a while.

Two days ago, I started again to work on it at home on my Mandriva 2007 
Spring, and SVN the t2-trunk.
Selected the desktop target and downloaded everything just fine. I 
thought : what a wonderful tool !

Then the build : things went wrong when building linux headers, because 
fl_wrapper writing outside of the correct location... Don't ask me why.

So I read carefully the documentation and found that it would build 
better on a T2 distribution. I went to the ISOs and downloaded the last 
stable one : 7.0 rc. Don't know what rc means...

And things gone worth : my CDs are 700Mb ones and the image does not fit 
in it, 760Mb...
I have tried the overburn option in K3B but the burn stopped at 724... 
And the CD was dead.

I have tried to figure out how it could be possible to install directly 
from the iso on the disk...
Mounted the iso on a loop and copied everything to a partition on the 
disk and boot on it.
The thing started and complained about not being able to find the stuff 
on the CD. So I felt something was telling it to search the CD and not 
the disk where it started. And I tried to open the initrd.img but I 
could not do with gunzip and mounting it as ext2...
Finally I bought 800Mb CDs and burnt one then installed it, well I tried...

It ended up with the mailing list where I found I had to install the 
6.01 version, what I did last night.

So I have installed the T2 6.01 minimal in a partition, copied the 
t2-trunk from my Mandriva/home/los to a new ext3 partition (cp -a 
complained about some attributes it was not able to set) and mounted the 
partition to the T2 minimal.

Then it was possible to run the ./scripts/Config and the Build-Target and...

The build was going on after the linux-headers and I went to bed letting 
it continue all night long... but it stopped when building the 
linux2.6.22, after 41 successful packets built.

I will try again during the week end but when you have any suggestion...

I like this project anyway. Great job !
I think I am going to learn a lot here...

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Best Regards,
Cordialement,

Stéphane LOS
slos@xxxxxxxxxxxx
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