On Sat, Oct 25, 2014 at 11:25:50AM +1300, Christopher Gregory wrote: > > It is certainly older hardware, the processor is an AMD athon 64bit dual > core. >
If it has a lot of RAM, yes you will probably want a 64-bit system, and they do run a little faster (more registers). But the programs do use more disk space. > He had the motherboard replaced a couple of years ago. I just do not > like suggesting that he buys a new computer as what he has will do the > job. > > If I had a 64bit machine I could just do the install on an external hard > drive and compile a generic kernal to cover the installed hardware. > To me, "an external hard drive" implies a usb device - can the box actually boot from an external usb drive ? Or are you intending to use a rescue CD to boot linux, and then transfer the system ? Actually, the more I read what you have written, and try to work out what you are thinking of doing, the less I understand : if it needs to be a 64-bit install, you will need a working 64-bit linux system to compile LFS. [ or, theoretically, a working 32-bit linux system, and cross-compile CLFS - but that is a longer process, and slightly different, and you need to boot a very minimal system and use that to build the equivalent of what we do in chroot ]. > > Would I need to install/activate an nfs service on windows to do this, > or just make sure that samba is installed and running? > Both of those are for file sharing between two separate computers. That is not what I would describe as an external hard drive. If you intend to connect two computers together, I would not use a production change to linux as an opportunity to learn how to serve files over nfs : there are enough configuration issues which can cause pain, even without oddities on the windows client side. ĸen -- Nanny Ogg usually went to bed early. After all, she was an old lady. Sometimes she went to bed as early as 6 a.m. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
