lfs, wich one for a noob?

[bri_guy]

I played with Linux a little in the past did not get a very good ground in it yet.
I asked a friend (Caspian, not on here that I can tell) and he suggested that I learn more by installing LFS. I have done a few things in Ubuntu, but have not con to far into it because I use the GUI a lot. I want to learn more and checked out the LFS site and want to just get a kernel and start from that using this and whatever tools I can find to get an OS built that will allow me to learn with hands-on experience . . . without the ablility to take the easy way out.

Just wondering if any of you know of a good basic starting place that I could use. I have not done much on the computer and want to learn more. It seems a lot of people think that I know quite a bit but everything I know is fleeting and I forget when I don't use it often. If I am able to start programming a little and set stuff up to see results I believe that I will see much better results than trying to use other peoples tools all the time (I have a few that I go to every time and they would like it much better if I start learning more on my own.)

What I am planning on doing is setting up at least two partitions and using one for Ubuntu (for my girlfriend) and the other with the most basic OS I can find and only use that one on my laptop until I learn enough so that I can start adapting things to other OS's and make them more tailored to me and know what I am doing.

Thanks,
Brian

[techieMoe]

If you want to build Linux from scratch, I recommend reading the Linux From Scratch manual:

Welcome to Linux From Scratch!

[coopstah13]

when doing LFS you have to use a host system or their livecd to start building from, its not for the faint at heart but it will teach you some stuff, but it takes a long time if your computer isn't fairly modern, since you will be compiling all software from source

completing LFS isn't really that difficult, its mostly configuring then compiling and installing software from source, among other things, the directions in the LFS book make everything pretty straightforward, they tell you all the commands to type in, in what order, etc