Good write up gore, very informative:
I find the 'from power to bash' article I read a while back also a good resource.
perhaps you are interested:
http://gok.customer.netspace.net.au/...ower2bash.html
Then there also is the 'linux from scratch'
http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/ if you want to build your own linux distro from ...scratch.

Once again, good information !

the_JinX your manual is here
http://www.osnews.com/story.php?news_id=3747


Cheers
noODLe