Hi, There are adapters you can buy to couple the hard disk from a laptop into a desktop. Look for 2.5inch to 3.5inch adapter at your local supplier or on the net. I have one myself and have the same thing in mind. I am assuming here that both machines use standard parallel ATA. I have never had a mac and dont know what is in it. I do know and have seen other types like SCSI and SATA.
All the best John John Walton ----- Original Message ----- From: "Reimundo Heluani" <[email protected]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, October 11, 2009 4:02 AM Subject: [Clfs-support] [SUPPORT] how to cross-compile to a particular laptop > I there, I am writing from a CLFS system on my desktop working 100% as I > want it as of now. I have a laptop (a macbook air 2,1) which only runs > Ubuntu but there are a couple of things that I can't get working (like > the mic) so I wanted to diagnose them, but after trying everything with > the people upstream ALSA I figured it's probably better to just wipe the > harddrive clean and start with a fresh LFS system. > > What I'd love to hear from you is advice on how to start building. I can > only think of 2 (and a half) options: > > 1) The problem is that this particular laptop only has a USB port and > for some reason booting the linux kernel (at least each time I installed > ubuntu on it) leaves the SMC in a bad state, so you need to constantly > reboot the machine and reset the SMC in the process. I guess I can just > take several tries with the LFS live CD or the Ubuntu one as a host and > compile on the same laptop > > 2) I guess I could probably connect the working Ubuntu on the laptop > with my wireless network at home (don't have a USB-ethernet adapter) and > mount a partition on my desktop, then build using my CLFS Desktop as a > host (and making the process of building a little faster) > > 3) I don't know if there is a way of mounting the whole harddrive of the > laptop in the desktop without having a running OS in it. It used to be > that old macs you could connect them to another mac via Firewire, but > this one only has a USB port so I have no clue how this setup could > work. > > I am sorry for the ill-posed question, but any comment even the most > trivial from you will be gold to me. > > Thanks in advance, > > Reimundo > > _______________________________________________ > Clfs-support mailing list > [email protected] > http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org > _______________________________________________ Clfs-support mailing list [email protected] http://lists.cross-lfs.org/listinfo.cgi/clfs-support-cross-lfs.org
