On Sat, 14 May 2005, M.Canales.es wrote: > El Sábado, 14 de Mayo de 2005 01:42, Archaic escribió: > > Lastly, IMHO the combo HOST != TARGET only is usefull in two cases: > > To build a full system (with X, servers, etc...) in a fast machine that will > be later instaled in a slow machine. > > Or to build a minimal system to can boot a machine that have no system > instaled yet. But in that case you must have physical acces, then you can use > also a BooCD to boot the machine and to install LFS using HOST=TARGET. >
I think I've got a third - machines that can run a 32-bit or a 64-bit system (i.e. x86_64 or ppc64) that are currently running 32-bit (i686 or ppc). It's easy enough to install current 32-bit LFS on them, upgrading to multilib should be educational (I'm trying at the moment, learning a lot about the toolchain so far, but a very long way from completing). Specifically, I'm hoping to build a 64-bit kernel (done that part), then use that with the 32-bit userspace to build the multilib. Or do you propose that those of us moving to 'fatter' machines should rely on new boot CDs ? Of course, even if you agree that this is a valid way of building, it may be better as a hint. To some extent, that probably depends on how much the process differs from a multilib linux host building a new multilib LFS for itself. Ken -- das eine Mal als Tragödie, das andere Mal als Farce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-dev FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/faq/ Unsubscribe: See the above information page
