On Thu, Jun 14, 2012 at 04:49:38PM -0500, Bruce Dubbs wrote:
> These are just some ramblings that someone might be interested in.
>
> OK, so my day-to-day LFS system is old. The version of glibc is 2.3.6
> (November 2005), and gcc is 4.0.2. There are programs that I can't add
> due to the old gcc and X11 is 6.8.2 and can't display windows from
> another system built with Xorg 7.6 or later.
>
> So I decide to finally update.
>
> First step, look at the system requirements. Oops, almost nothing is
> recent enough: bash, bzip2, gcc, kernel, perl, sed, coreutils, glibc.
>
> Now what? I use the system every day and the dual monitor setup is
> nice. So I decide to do this in steps. First, I'll update to LFS 6.6,
> chroot to there and build svn from that.
>
I think you will have hours of fun getting to a kernel .config that
works for you. I *suppose* that 6.6 is probably good enough to
compile a current kernel, but so much has changed over the years
that I think you will have a lot of fun sorting out the correct
drivers. OTOH, if you have real SCSI disks, perhaps not so much has
changed [ the big change for the rest of us was the move from hdX to
sdX in the late 2.6.2X kernels, somewhere between the 6.2 and 6.6
releases ].
If you do run into problems, lsmod on a recent Live CD (I usually
use SystemRescueCD) might identify which are the current drivers.
From your previous comments, I assume you continue to use nvidia
drivers, so I suppose you will not have to encounter the joys of
getting KMS working ('simple', except when it isn't ;)
Enjoy the process!
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