On Sat, 2014-10-25 at 15:37 +0100, David Brodie wrote: > On 25/10/14 03:08, Christopher Gregory wrote: > > > 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? > > > > I'm sure you know this already, but you can perfectly well install a > 32-bit system on the machine. For example, I myself have a dual-core > 64-bit Athlone, and run 32-bit LFS (and 64-bit OpenSUSE 13.1). Is there > any particular reason it has to be 64-bit? I have built 32-bit partly in > order to run one or two of my favourite Windows programs (e.g. Irfan > View) under Wine - perhaps your landlord would like to do the same. > > I'd also echo the comments about leaving your landlord with an LFS > system, especially from the point of view of security upgrades. It's > just so much easier with a distribution like OpenSUSE or Debian or > whatever to upgrade pretty much automatically when something like > Bashbug or Heartbleed comes along - is your landlord going to be able to > do that? Also, the system will need that much more attention to security > because it is being used by multiple people than a stand-alone desktop > system. > > David
Hello David, I really have not been thinking that clearly over this. Of course from the security updates point of view a distribution is the way to go. My landlord most certainly would not be able to apply any upgrades. I just detest the way that the distributions force certain things on users, which is why I do not use them any more. It will certainly be a lot quicker to setup as I believe that the software that I wish to use for the wifi hotspot already has the packages for the major distributions. I need to set aside my own preferences in this and make the management of the server as easy as possible. It is all well and good for experienced users/system administrators to use a lfs/blfs system, but for the average user it really is a bit much. As for the 32bit install, yes I know 32bit can be installed with a 64 bit processor. I did that a few years back when I only had 32 bit debian downloaded and did not want to wait to download the 64 bit version. Regards, Christopher. -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/blfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
