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authorBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2015-09-26 20:28:40 +0000
committerBruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org>2015-09-26 20:28:40 +0000
commitea23e54ba5150e805b6c0e52b89589f1d413cb4d (patch)
treef44aa54db35c7c432b52a0abb6d8c79752ae82b1
parent3d56263030297ac2a86d273f7eff390ac309b34a (diff)
Add additional discussion about copying an LFS system from one
machine to another. git-svn-id: http://svn.linuxfromscratch.org/LFS/trunk/BOOK@10954 4aa44e1e-78dd-0310-a6d2-fbcd4c07a689
-rw-r--r--chapter01/changelog.xml10
-rw-r--r--chapter06/pkgmgt.xml8
-rw-r--r--general.ent4
3 files changed, 19 insertions, 3 deletions
diff --git a/chapter01/changelog.xml b/chapter01/changelog.xml
index 4232897f7..29d1426b0 100644
--- a/chapter01/changelog.xml
+++ b/chapter01/changelog.xml
@@ -37,6 +37,16 @@
-->
<listitem>
+ <para>2015-09-26</para>
+ <itemizedlist>
+ <listitem>
+ <para>[bdubbs] - Add additional discussion about copying an LFS
+ system from one machine to another.</para>
+ </listitem>
+ </itemizedlist>
+ </listitem>
+
+ <listitem>
<para>2015-09-17</para>
<itemizedlist>
<listitem>
diff --git a/chapter06/pkgmgt.xml b/chapter06/pkgmgt.xml
index b4734aba0..a451f2162 100644
--- a/chapter06/pkgmgt.xml
+++ b/chapter06/pkgmgt.xml
@@ -250,7 +250,7 @@ make DESTDIR=/usr/pkg/libfoo/1.1 install</userinput></screen>
<para>One of the advantages of an LFS system is that there are no files that
depend on the position of files on a disk system. Cloning an LFS build to
- another computer with an architecture similar to the base system is as
+ another computer with the same architecture as the base system is as
simple as using <command>tar</command> on the LFS partition that contains
the root directory (about 250MB uncompressed for a base LFS build), copying
that file via network transfer or CD-ROM to the new system and expanding
@@ -271,6 +271,12 @@ make DESTDIR=/usr/pkg/libfoo/1.1 install</userinput></screen>
differences in system hardware and the original kernel
configuration.</para>
+ <note><para>There have been some reports of issues when copying between
+ similar but not identical architectures. For instance the instruction set
+ for Intel architectures is not identical with AMD processors and later
+ versions of some processors may have instructions not available in
+ earlier versions.</para></note>
+
<para>Finally the new system has to be made bootable via <xref
linkend="ch-bootable-grub"/>.</para>
diff --git a/general.ent b/general.ent
index 9b6e5a39d..f8053faea 100644
--- a/general.ent
+++ b/general.ent
@@ -1,7 +1,7 @@
-<!ENTITY version "SVN-20150917">
+<!ENTITY version "SVN-20150926">
<!ENTITY short-version "svn"> <!-- Used below in &blfs-book;. Change to x.y for release
but not -rc releases -->
-<!ENTITY releasedate "September 17, 2015">
+<!ENTITY releasedate "September 26, 2015">
<!ENTITY copyrightdate "1999-2015"><!-- jhalfs needs a literal dash, not &ndash; -->
<!ENTITY milestone "7.8">
<!ENTITY generic-version "development"> <!-- Use "development", "testing", or "x.y[-pre{x}]" -->