On Sat, 2014-10-25 at 02:49 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > 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
Hello Ken, The server has two internal hard drives. One is an IDE and one is a sata. The processor is an AMD athlon 64bit duel core. What I wanted to do is like I did on my laptop, which is mount the bare drive, which in this case would be the ide as the sata has windows installed on it. Would I still need to have a 64bit environment setup on my laptop to support running jhalfs on a native 64bit remote machine? If so I am royally screwed as I really do not fancy wading through cross-linux-from-scratch to set it up. Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
