[mdlug] Bringing up Linux with Suckless Init plus daemontools-encore

[Steve Litt]

On Wed, 22 Jul 2015 23:03:57 -0400
JeremyBekka C <jrchristophel at gmail.com> wrote:


> So, I started working on my home desktop computer. I did have one
> problem but I figured it out and now have Plop installed on my VM.

Excellent!

> The problem that I ran into was when I went to tar the
> plop-linux-desktop file to /mnt/xfer all would start working but then
> part way through the process it stopped coping the files because the
> device did not have enough room. I solved this problem by making a
> larger virtual hard drive (15gb hda1, 30gb swap), and everything
> worked just fine. 

I think you could have gotten  away with 2GB of swap, but you're right,
life's too short to risk running short of time. 

> I had previously tried a partition of 2gb hda1 and
> 6gb swap setup but the same problem occurred. So, next thing on my
> list is to do the Suckless install.

After you get Suckless Init plus daemontools-encore with LittKit
installed, I predict you'll never view the Init process the same way,
and you'll find very amusing all the authorities who crawl out of the
woodwork when that certain init system gets discussed.

By the way, if you ever install Gentoo or Funtoo, use 28GB for your VDI
disk and take 2GB of that for swap. Gentoo and Funtoo require gobs of
RAM for kernel compilation.

Oh, also, I gave up on VirtualBox after it became too unreliable for
me, and I'm using strictly Qemu now.

SteveT

Steve Litt 
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