On Thu, 2005-07-28 at 08:29 +0100, Jeremy Henty wrote: > What happens if I boot a 64-bit system from a 32-bit live CD and build > LFS off of that? I'm assuming that the resulting LFS will be a fully > 64-bit system. Or have I misunderstood? (Knowledgeable friends are > recommending me to go for an AMD64 setup and I'd hate not to get the > best out of it.) > > Cheers, > > Jeremy Henty
Hi Jeremy, No, if you boot your AMD64 machine with a 32bit liveCD you'll be running all in 'legacy' mode, that's in AMD terms, 32bit environment, so if you build an LFS system, it will be surely 32bit, not 64bit, for that purpose I think you need to do a cross-build, not a 'native' build, as the 'native' build will be influenced by the current environment mode (in this case, legacy mode, or put it like before... 32bit mode) Julio -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
