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| author | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2015-09-26 20:28:40 +0000 |
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| committer | Bruce Dubbs <bdubbs@linuxfromscratch.org> | 2015-09-26 20:28:40 +0000 |
| commit | ea23e54ba5150e805b6c0e52b89589f1d413cb4d (patch) | |
| tree | f44aa54db35c7c432b52a0abb6d8c79752ae82b1 /chapter06 | |
| parent | 3d56263030297ac2a86d273f7eff390ac309b34a (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
Diffstat (limited to 'chapter06')
| -rw-r--r-- | chapter06/pkgmgt.xml | 8 |
1 files changed, 7 insertions, 1 deletions
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> |