From ea23e54ba5150e805b6c0e52b89589f1d413cb4d Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Bruce Dubbs Date: Sat, 26 Sep 2015 20:28:40 +0000 Subject: 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 --- chapter06/pkgmgt.xml | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'chapter06/pkgmgt.xml') 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 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 tar 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 differences in system hardware and the original kernel configuration. + 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. + Finally the new system has to be made bootable via . -- cgit v1.2.3-54-g00ecf