From: Andrew Walrond <andrew@...>
Date: 2004-03-13T07:23:49+09:00
Subject: Re: [ANN] Rubyx OS version 42 (stage1 like download?)

On Friday 12 Mar 2004 21:59, Mills Thomas (app1tam) wrote:
> I've been to the website and read the docs, and maybe I'm dense.  But I'm
> still not sure what Rubyx is doing.  I think I understand that the goal is
> to eventually end up with 'The Distro That Rubyx Built', so-to-speak.  But
> I don't get the process.

Ok; Let me understand what you don't get so I can fix the documentation.
>
> Does it
> 1) Digest my current distro to create a new distro?

No. rubyx is a script which can be run from an existing distro to create a new 
Rubyx distro on a seperate partition or directory. It does not effect your 
current distro in any way.

> Or 2) Create a brand new distro by downloading source from all over the
> internet?

Yes. rubyx is a small script which knows all about how to create Rubyx the OS 
from source code. It will download and build all necessary packages from the 
rubyx server.

> Or 3) Does it create an ISO image?  If so is it expecting to run cdrecord
> to put on a CD?

Yes/No. Once you have build a Rubyc distro, rubyx has the ability to create a 
bootable CD image (ISO) file. You can use cdrecord or whatever to burn this 
to a cd/dvd.

> Or 4) What if you're running ruby under Windows?  What do you do then? 
> Does it trash your Windows OS and replace it with Linux?

You won't be able to create Rubyx from Windows. (Caveat: I haven't tried 
running rubyx under cygwin; that may be possible.)

> Or 5) Maybe it just takes over your already-existil Linux machine and
> re-writes it using the new Rubyx way.??

That would be just plain rude :) See previous answers.

> Or 6) Does it just re-use a file-system only?  Maybe it creates its own
> partitions and assigns its own choice of FS type.

You must decide where you want to build rubyx, and partition your drive(s) 
accordingly. Some instructions are given in the 'Installing Rubyx' 
documentation on the website.

>
> You see I'm just not sure where all this is going.  If you could give one
> paragraph saying what is happening here, I would really appreciate it.
>

Hope this helps :)

Andrew