Frequently Asked Questions

1. LNX-BBC
   1. What is an LNX-BBC?
   2. So it's just a small installer?
   3. What happens to my hard drives?
   4. What distribution do you use?
   5. Why not just use Knoppix?
   6. Does it work with Red Hat?
   7. Does it work with Windows?
   8. So how do I get one?
   9. What do I do with an ISO file?
   10. So this is that Linuxcare thing, right?
   11. But Linuxcare still has a GNU/Linux business card CD. Is this the same project?
   12. So what version should I get?
   13. Are there any images for larger CDs? (8cm, full CD-ROM etc)?
2. GAR
   1. What is GAR?
   2. Why was GAR written?
   3. So why GAR? Why not <name-of-favorite-build-system>?
   4. So why GAR? Why not <name-of-favorite-binary-package-format>?
3. Building from Source Code
   1. How do I get GAR?
   2. When I try to build GAR, it fails on one package. How do I fix it?
   3. How do I file a bug against a GAR package?
   4. My build failed, and it is very frustrating. How do I get the tree that built the last actual release of LNX-BBC?
   5. I don't always have access to the Internet, but want to be able to build with a pre-downloaded set of tarballs. How do I get GAR to do this?
   6. But I get a bunch of permission denied errors when I do a "make garchive"! I've never even heard of /var/www! What is this?
   7. My system has way too many problems during build. Is there some sort of pre-packaged build setup I can use?
   8. How do I package up a piece of software for GAR?
   9. When I build a BBC, I'm finding that everything, including the chroot uses 5.3 GiB of disk space. Is this typical?
   10. I have a Gentoo system and I'd like to have GAR look for any files it needs in the portage download directory before it tries to get them off of the Internet. Is there an easy way to do this?