Re: [blfs-support] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit

2014-07-13 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sun, Jul 13, 2014 at 06:55:18PM -0500, William Harrington wrote: > > On Jul 13, 2014, at 6:24 PM, James Richard Tyrer wrote: > > >IAC, I would be interested if Linux from Scratch would start a 64 bit book > >with an add on to BLFS on how to build, install, and boot a 64 bit Kernel. > >Perhaps

Re: [blfs-support] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit

2014-07-13 Thread William Harrington
On Jul 13, 2014, at 6:24 PM, James Richard Tyrer wrote: IAC, I would be interested if Linux from Scratch would start a 64 bit book with an add on to BLFS on how to build, install, and boot a 64 bit Kernel. Perhaps this should be the start of Extreme Linux from Scratch :-). The BOOK is s

Re: [blfs-support] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit

2014-07-13 Thread James Richard Tyrer
On 07/12/2014 09:51 PM, Ken Moffat wrote: On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 09:04:25PM -0400, alex lupu wrote: Hello everybody, I'd very much appreciate any helpful words about the basic steps, pitfalls, relative effort, reliability on changing my old, tried and true, pretty up-to-date, "BLFS" system (ty

Re: [blfs-support] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit

2014-07-13 Thread Rushang Karia
ort] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit Rushang, Ken, Simon, Thank you very much for your thoughts. I gather I'll have to bite the bullet and builda 64-bit LFS -> BLFS system from Scratch like in the old days (some ten years ago :'-( , 32-bit). A sob

[blfs-support] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit

2014-07-13 Thread alex lupu
Rushang, Ken, Simon, Thank you very much for your thoughts. I gather I'll have to bite the bullet and build a 64-bit LFS -> BLFS system from Scratch like in the old days (some ten years ago :'-( , 32-bit). A sobbing, -- Alex -- http://lists.linuxfromscratch.org/listinfo/blfs-support FAQ: http:/

Re: [blfs-support] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit

2014-07-13 Thread Simon Geard
On Sun, 2014-07-13 at 05:51 +0100, Ken Moffat wrote: > Another possible alternative, not supported by either LFS or CLFS, > would be to use a 64-bit kernel but 32-bit userspace. That seems to > be the variaant which Linus prefers if 32-bit userspace is needed. Regardless of anything else, I thin

Re: [blfs-support] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit

2014-07-13 Thread Simon Geard
On Sat, 2014-07-12 at 21:04 -0400, alex lupu wrote: > Not gory details; just the wisdom and feasibility of embarking on > such a > monumental(?) endeavor versus creating a new system from Scratch. So, basically you want to install the 64-bit toolchain alongside existing 32-bit one, turning the sy

Re: [blfs-support] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit

2014-07-12 Thread Ken Moffat
On Sat, Jul 12, 2014 at 09:04:25PM -0400, alex lupu wrote: > Hello everybody, > > I'd very much appreciate any helpful words about the basic steps, > pitfalls, relative effort, reliability on changing my old, tried and true, > pretty up-to-date, "BLFS" system (typically) from "pure" 32 to 64 bits.

Re: [blfs-support] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit

2014-07-12 Thread Rushang Karia
32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit Hello everybody, I'd very much appreciate any helpful words about the basic steps,pitfalls, relative effort, reliability on changing my old, tried and true, pretty up-to-date, "BLFS" system (typically) from "pure" 32 to 64 bits. Obvious assum

[blfs-support] About moving a 32-bit BLFS system to 64-bit

2014-07-12 Thread alex lupu
Hello everybody, I'd very much appreciate any helpful words about the basic steps, pitfalls, relative effort, reliability on changing my old, tried and true, pretty up-to-date, "BLFS" system (typically) from "pure" 32 to 64 bits. Obvious assumptions: 64-bit processor 32-bit (3.14.2) kernel. Not