On Mon, 30 Jan 2006, John Gay wrote:
Yea, I know, never reply to your own mails, but . . .
I'm now building using the CLFS book, as recommended into the spare partition
for playing/testing, but what do I do when I'm ready to use that to build my
new Desktop?
Build, suffer, rip out (restore to backups), lose sleep, repeat ;-)
Same as any development, really. 64-bit desktops are still close enough
to the bleeding edge to be extremely educational at unexpected moments.
At that stage, I'll be running a 64-bit host from the spare partition and
replacing the old 32-bit system with a 64-bit build.
On your pre-acceptance testing, make sure you have a working bootloader
in the clfs system, and test how you are going to recover (e.g. if you
run an excessive 'rm -rf' at the end of a mind-numbing battle with
jpeg/gtk/pango/firefox/whatever). My own recovery strategy uses an i586
rescue CD for both x86 and x86_64, which obviously prevents me chrooting
to a 64-bit system, but is perfectly adequate for restoring backups,
either from my lan or from a CD - yes, my rescue CD is adapted to free
up the same CD drive.
I won't need to
cross-compile, but my experience from last night showed it's not
straight-forward to build LFS on a 64-bit host? Maybe it was just a version
thing. Hopefully the new book will be released by then and work better for
this deviation build?
I've never built a 64-bit system without cross-compiling (but then,
I've only got four boxes that can run as 64-bit). Nowadays, CLFS is
what most people do to build on non-x86, which is probably why your
original posting didn't ring any bells for me. Yes, we go through the
process of cross-compiling, even if we don't strictly have to, because
that's the way the clfs book works.
Above all, enjoy it!
Ken
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