Enviroment Setup

Before VMWare was around this was a bit of a hassle to have on your main harddrive. What I have done instead is made a virtual image of a hard drive using VMware player. I installed Debian lenny 5 as the host machine while I was setting up my own distro. After a while you will not need the host operating system because you own will be sufficent enough to boot into. After a while you can delete the partition that debian on it and give more space to your new linux distro.

I gave 8.6GB to the virtual disk. 4GB to Debian lenny, 500MB for swap space and 4GB for my new linux distro. I only installed debian with minimum amount of setup. I just had the command line. No GUI is needed.