That ameliorated Windows 10 looks spooky and fresh/clean ... I'm in my 50's already, so I remember DOS 6.0 to DOS 6.2 to Windows 3.1 ... It is tempting, that is, installing Ameliorated Windows 10 onto computers of those in need. I may find a use for that one of these good old days. Thanks for the heads-up, Ibra.
I think NixOS was one I was researching as well. I see one can install this system to a different partition from within an existing Linux operating system without even needing a USB-drive to boot. I think they use SystemD, and I have been intentionally trying to learn non-systemd ways. I fear those who embrace systemd have embraced the idea of some people owning Linux. I don't even know why any of it matters to me. It seems ridiculous, but these distro-politics are getting to be like the in-fighting witnessed among practitioners of organized religion, each practicing different approaches to living, with a good deal of maligning, campaigning, and fanboyism.
I had my heart set on source-based for a small slot I robbed from Windows 10 C: partition.
I am considering
Exherbo or maybe
Crux.
As I suspected, the Adelie installation was a flop. All seemed to be going well, and then the Installer just complained and quit. F
uck that, right? I knew there was something fishy in the way the .iso was MBR partition, not GPT.
I hear the developers at Exherbo are those bad asses who had attitude problems in Gentoo-land. I'm just curious. Very bored, I suppose.
A Confederacy of Dunces is kind of in-your-face comedy with a bunch of characters. Everyone is a character, and Jones steals the show. The guy with the space-age sunglasses who is always blowing smoke ...
I think maybe I should stop and read as well ... something not so technical. I don't know how I have come to be so obsessed with computing. It is what it is. Sometimes I feel like a great contradiction ... like a protagonist in a novel who is about to remember who he really is ...
So much time and effort to understand things, and the environments we try to understand. Will we forever be behind the 8-ball surfing the Learning Curve of Sisyphus?
Even as much effort as I have put into my meager understanding of things, I feel extremely alienated from the computing industry. And I am one who has had some serious interest. There is a definite feeling of being an outsider, though.
review of Exherbo from 2009.
Thank you for appreciating the code I wrote and was able to upload to github. To me, it is like some kind of mathematical poetry which forces itself to be expressed. Since I only produce such code while in a state of amazed concentration and focus, it might as well have been produced by the Holy Ghost, as Schopenhauer would say. That is, I had been possessed with inspiration. I can only hope to be possessed again god-willin & the crick don't rise.
The art and craft may come in when the code is written in a way to be read by a human programmer, with some help from comments. In the future I would leave more "commented out, of course" print statements as a kind of spontaneous organic built in debugging practice. The one who types these words is an appendage. My own thoughts feel somewhat mechanical and calculated. How would we know if our brains have not been hijacked by some super-computing Lizard?
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technicalities:
- Sometimes when using Rufus to create (DD) image on the drive, the USB flashdrive becomes unrecognizable. These little 4GB and 8GB drives are hard to come by, since stores usually sell minimum 16GB or even 32 GB flashdrives. When you have a few that are misbehaving, you will have to roll up your sleeves, run cmd.exe as Administrator, and type "diskpart" : see repair USB drive
- If the flashdrive is still not showing up (in Windows): reinstall disk driver
Here are
more details on CRUX installation (warning: from 2012, so be sure to refer to
Crux Handbook 3-5).
Another resource (from 2018):
Commonwealth Manual CRUX 3.4 CCIAThere is
a more general example of an installation of CRUX that goes in absolutely no detail as far as compiling the kernel goes.
More details on kernel compiling specific to CRUX (2011).
While I would not follow the kernel section (I am not encryting), as I have different hardware, the guide to a crux installation is kind of streamlined and sleek:
Abdullah. (alarmingly fascinating) ... All-2-Lovecraftian!
I find more peace of mind with a strong dose of
https://crux.nu/Wiki/UEFI Kernel Configuration
There are several UEFI-related options that need to be enabled in the kernel for full support. They are:
GPT disk label support (CONFIG_EFI_PARTITION):
-*- Enable the block layer --->
Partition Types --->
- EFI GUID Partition support
EFI runtime service support (CONFIG_EFI):
Processor type and features --->
- EFI runtime service support
EFI stub support (CONFIG_EFI_STUB):
This option is only required if EFI stub support is desired in lieu of one of the more traditional boot loaders. See the EFI stub notes in the "Boot Loaders" section below.
Processor type and features --->
- EFI runtime service support
- EFI stub support
EFI variable filesystem support (CONFIG_EFIVAR_FS):
NOTE: This option can be builtin (<*>) or module (<M>). If you build it as a module, be sure to load the 'efivarfs' module before attempting to edit UEFI boot entries.
File systems --->
Pseudo filesystems --->
<*> EFI Variable filesystem
EFI framebuffer (CONFIG_FB_EFI):
Device Drivers --->
Graphics support --->
<*> Support for frame buffer devices --->
- EFI-based Framebuffer Support
Console display driver support --->
<*> Framebuffer Console support
- Map the console to the primary display device
Please note that some of these options can technically be compiled as modules but it is NOT recommended due to the extra requirements that adds such as an initrd or initramfs to load the GPT partition support and EFI frame buffer early.
This is telling me to disable "Initial RAM filesystems" (initramfs) and "RAM disk" (initrd) support.
This would agree with
using a standard kernel with no initramfsIn order to compile the kernel, I am also impressed with the built-in help system, where I may investigate according to my degree of patience.