On 09/24/2012 10:56 PM, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> Ken Moffat wrote:
>
>> 3. Actually, you *don't* need to figure out all the 32 vs 64 bit
>> stuff - unless you want to.
> Agree.
>
>> GCC works better with more
>> registers, which is one of the main reasons for using x86_64 - the
>> drawback is that poin
Ken Moffat wrote:
> 3. Actually, you *don't* need to figure out all the 32 vs 64 bit
> stuff - unless you want to.
Agree.
> GCC works better with more
> registers, which is one of the main reasons for using x86_64 - the
> drawback is that pointers are 64-bit so take more space
http://www.linuxf
On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 09:12:21PM -0500, Garrett Gaston wrote:
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> I do understand that swap can be used by all linux systems on the machine, my
> questions was on the importance of initialzing it and and the errors I was
> getting from enter the given LFS commands.
> I also understand that thi
I do understand that swap can be used by all linux systems on the machine, my
questions was on the importance of initialzing it and and the errors I was
getting from enter the given LFS commands.
I also understand that thing change over time, I was well aware that HDs use to
be refered to as hd
After creating your partitions, did your system update the block
devices available? Sorry, I don't know what that means.
The host portition in this case is my previous build of LFS. The computers has
been restarted many time since I set up the partitions.
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On Mon, Sep 24, 2012 at 07:07:11PM -0500, Garrett Gaston wrote:
>
> On chapter 2.3. Creating a File System I'M told to issue the command "mkswap
> /dev/ for initialization purposes.
> The thing is I created and set up my three partitions before starting LFS.
> sda1 will be my LFS, sda2 is swap,
On Sep 24, 2012, at 19:07 PM, Garrett Gaston wrote:
> On chapter 2.3. Creating a File System I'M told to issue the
> command "mkswap /dev/ for initialization purposes.
>
> The thing is I created and set up my three partitions before
> starting LFS. sda1 will be my LFS, sda2 is swap, and sda3
On chapter 2.3. Creating a File System I'M told to issue the command "mkswap
/dev/ for initialization purposes.
The thing is I created and set up my three partitions before starting LFS. sda1
will be my LFS, sda2 is swap, and sda3 is my host system. So how important is
this command because when
