On Tue, 25 Oct 2005, Alan Lord wrote:
I would very much like to try and move from M$ completely by building a new LFS on my AMD box. It would need to run Open Office 2.0 (+ Java 1.5), PHP, MySQL, Apache, Samba, X etc... (there is plenty of room for me to set up a few new partitions for Linux)I am keen to try and build a 64bit version of LFS to run on this machine. 1. What type of LFS should I build? Pure 64bit in /lib only, /lib32 & /lib64 or something else?
I suspect that OOo will want to be 32-bit. That probably means you will want "conventional" multilib (lib+lib64). Worst case, one of the dependencies will link to X libraries, which will mean you need both 32- and 64-bit versions of X. (hint: identify all the dependencies first, so that you build the necessary 32-bit libraries before corresponding 64-bit versions!) The main downside to lib+lib64 (ignoring any issues with multiple versions of X, perl, pkgconfig, python) is that you need to make sure each 64-bit application which has libraries uses lib64
- not a big deal in itself, but you need to check each new package.
2. Is there a dual boot bootloader that can boot a 64bit Linux and WinXP? I will need to keep M$ on here for a while.
Lilo or grub (I have no experience of booting XP, but both are reputed to be able to do that) - the 64-bit kernel is no big deal. The only issue with grub is that it has to be built as 32-bit (lilo probably sneaks through this hurdle on pure64 by using bin86).
3. I am assuming I will need the 64bit liveCD (or a gentoo type distro) as my starting point or should I "cross build" on my P4 and then copy (how?) over to the AMD box?
Whatever you feel comfortable with ;) Actually, you're going to have to partition the disk, and I imagine your athlon64 will be faster than the P4, so if you've got the space why not build (or install) an i686 system, then use that to cross-build. If you follow Cross-LFS, you will need to be running a 64-bit kernel for chapter 9 (temporary tools) onwards - for a Live CD that will indeed force you to use a 64-bit version, but from an installed system you can just cross-compile a 64-bit kernel and run it with the 32-bit userspace.
If you have a bootable CD that will let you partition the disk, make some filesystems, mount one, bring up networking, and run ssh then you can probably copy the current system from the P4 using ssh.
Ken -- das eine Mal als Trag?die, das andere Mal als Farce
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