thanks for the kernal website i found the LFS website right after i sent this message --- On Thu, 7/30/09, awe008@xxxxxxxxxx <awe008@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: From: awe008@xxxxxxxxxx <awe008@xxxxxxxxxx> Subject: [tlug] Re: bulding my own distro To: tlug@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Date: Thursday, July 30, 2009, 4:01 PM most people remaster or respin a distro to adapt it to their own. slax, fedora, debian, slackware, ubuntu, are very popular for this. to build your own you can go to kernel.org and get a copy of the kernel, but i would have no idea how to get past that. you may want to check out http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ and start there. I have never done this, but would be interested in doing this one day with the group. Andrew ---------------------------------------------------------------- This message was sent using IMP, the Internet Messaging Program.