Making Simple Linux Distro from Scratch

my brother in christ what is your PC doing mate?

simplest arch installation guide

i did all of this and like now i have a small linux distro in which i can make crap in for fun

Now make one in Scratch.

Can you make an actual complete guid?

Have you done one about buildroot? To make custom os for customs apps light weight

Nice, but this ends up in compiling an -rc kernel

This is the absolute best tutorial on this topic. Please do a tutorial on compiling more packages for the custom operating system. Packages like GCC, sudo, nano and whatnot. And please also do videos on setting up ttys that work hand in hand with key configurations, I've set up my ttys but they don't work with key configurations. A lot of demands here but please also do a video on setting up the root user, sudo (root access) users and normal users, as well as, how to compile and set up wayland, xorg, sddm and possibly even KDE Plasma.

MFW your x64 kernel compiles into the arch/x86 folder ._.

Very cool and well communicated. Thanks!

Hi i keep getting an error when mounting boot as m (mount: m: failed to setup loop device for /boot-files/boot.)

thank you

"Distro", hmmm🙄

nice video.
I have created a writeup of this and how to add networking on GitHub EN10/BusyBoxLinux

super clear and interesting! Subscribed.

Great video. Thank You .... Only I would change one thing :) ...as a total beginner, it would be nice to see the result / what to expect on the beginning of the video, and then the explanation how to do it. For me the experience was as : command after command, and I had no idea where we are going :) ...on the end it was totally worth it :) Thank You

technically with EFI stub compiled into the kernel, you can directly boot it from uefi, no bootloader needed.

I appreciate the tutorial but all you really need to make a Linux distro is to take Debian, remove every library that isn’t required to boot your machine, then rewrite a hyper-specific window manager that renders each window into the silhouettes of female characters from obscure, extremely niche animes.

Funnily enough this is also exactly how Linus Torvalds created the first version of Linux back in the days. He just fired up docker and booted some Ubuntu image

Video Idea: Making simple linux distro ON scratch 💀💀💀💀💀💀💀

I am gonna try once i get some time to spare. Really interesting. Can we make a distro with AI integration ?

Alternatives to Syslinux are Grub and...?
Alternatives to BusyBox are ToyBox and...?
❤ Thank you!

Why are you even using Windows at this point???? rm -rf C:\

Can you make same video for ToyBox?

How would you go about installing a tty?

anyone else failing with "mount: m: failed to setup loop device for /boot-files/boot." on the first mount command?

is there a way to run the boot file on vbox?

Hello, i like this video, Is it possible to install an interface like GNOME or Xfce? If so, can you show how to do it? I would also like to know how to take this to production.

splendid

Is this minimalistic environment sufficient to bootstrap Linux From Scratch?

If you make Linux inside of a Linux what Linux was used to make the first Linux 🤔🤔🤔

I have few things to request if you don't mind creating a video.

1. Can you create a distro using a base debian or ubuntu image?
2. Illustration of how to use systemd as a init system.
3. And use Grub2 as the bootloader.

Why syslinux over grub2? I'm a noob so please go a little in depth as you see it

Really cool to see this, thank you for the simple and easy to follow tutorial. I look forward to diving deeper into how this works.

windows -> wsl -> ubuntu -> dwm -> distro from scratch

Yes u made my day. 🎉😊

I’d be 100% more informed and impressed if you did this on bare metal, but kids these days are looking for this sort of thing, so I’ll just trampse off to my cave and mutter about it to myself…

Great tutorial Nir! I have a few followup questions.

1) You used the default kernel config file that came with the repo, instead of replacing it with your Ubuntu machine's config file. And in the default config file, the only change you made was enabling 64 bit. Would that cause any issues if you were to use this kernel in production, since it wasn't "handcrafted" for your machine?

2) Why don't you have to run 'make modules' after you make the kernel? Does the default config file just set all modules to be compiled into the kernel?

3) If you set some modules in the config file to be compiled external from the kernel, where would we copy those .ko module binaries so the kernel could use them? Would they need to be copied into the initramfs cpio archive? Or would they need to be placed on a real disk in a root filesystem the kernel would switch to after it goes through initramfs?

4) Since you copied BusyBox directly into the initramfs archive, the kernel didn't need to mount any real root file system on a real disk. However, suppose we did want to use a real root fs on a real disk, and install BusyBox there instead. How would we need to change the init program and initramfs directory structure and content to make the kernel mount the real disk and change the root directory to the one on the disk?

what do you recommend i look into/do if i want to go further in making it useable?

cool! combined with something like sinit and sbase and voila - extremely small desktop linux :)

This video is gold, thanks man. Ever thought about making a video on your very custom distro using the knowledge you showed us in this video?

I know a lot of people have asked the same question, but how would I write this to a USB drive to boot it on a real machine? I've tried to use tools like dd or genisoimage, but even after a few hours, I still can't get it to work. Usually, it just says there's no bootable device, other times, it says the device doesn't support UEFI booting.

is that fucking windows terminal from w11 on linux? why and how

I came to check comments section to make sure this isn't a joke (im not joking)

Happy to see this!!😃

When doing "mount boot m" I get an error: "mount: m: mount failed: Operation not permitted." I've searched online but nothing seems to work, please help

what a mad lad

Great job, thanks!