On Sat, 2010-05-15 at 19:15 -0700, drew wymore wrote: > On Sat, May 15, 2010 at 7:00 PM, Someone <[email protected]> wrote: > > My dad has one of those fancy quad core 64 bit Windows 7 laptops. I > > have a Pentium III optimized LFS system which I can back up Windows and > > Linux systems with as long as the computer is a Pentium III or IV. Will > > a Pentium III Linux kernel boot a quad core computer??? > > > > I am using dd to dump entire hard drives, this is space intensive though > > and I end up backing up fragmentation. Is there a better way that is as > > powerful as hard drive imaging? Using dd is brute forcing the problem, > > but this is a safe way to back a system up. > > > > If I need a 64 bit Linux kernel and a 64 bit optimized NFS mountable > > Linux filesystem, how do I produce those on a 32 bit computer? Is it > > possible to produce an Apple G3 compatible Linux system on a PIII based > > Linux server? How about network booting a PC164 Alpha system? > > > > In general, I'm curious how to trick the Linux kernel source into > > compiling on one computer for a totally different kind of computer. > > > > _______________________________________________ > > PLUG mailing list > > [email protected] > > http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug > > > > No offense meant by using lmgtfy
What does lmgtfy mean? I want to be able to include my Dad's laptop in my network based backup system which is made up of a network bootable Linux system and a large backup area. For obvious reasons, installing Linux on my Dad's laptop even just to export that installation to a server is not a realistic option. Short of talking Dad into buying a second internal hard drive for his computer and taking the Windows 7 drive out temporarily so I can install 64 bit Linux, how am I going to put together a 64 bit Linux system without a 64 bit quad core computer? I'm sure I'm not the only person who cannot realistically buy a quad core computer just to facilitate installing 64 bit Linux to it to then export that system over a network. What if I had a really expensive mainframe computer with Windows on it and I couldn't justify buying another one just in case? Heterogeneous Linux/Windows networks are common where the difficulty of getting all the machines backed up is nothing new. This problem isn't so far out where I would appreciate it if people wouldn't resort to vague and probably colorful metaphors. _______________________________________________ PLUG mailing list [email protected] http://lists.pdxlinux.org/mailman/listinfo/plug
