loki wrote: > Heya all. > > Need some help. I have an old lfs installation which is in production > use, for the past 5-6 years. I guess it's version 6.3 or something since > it has kernel 2.6 on it. It is time to install a new version on it. But > there are the following problems: > > 1.) Since it is in production it can't be offline longer than 3 hrs. So > the new lfs has to be compiled while the old dist is still running and > then when everything is finished just copied to root. > 2.) The compilation has to be done on this machine. > 3.) There can't be installed any other distribution (Ubuntu, RedHat,...) > or any virtual machine. > 4.) Obviously I can't compile lfs 7.4 with 6.3. > > So here is what I need. Which lfs version can I use as a jump pad. For > instance can I compile 7.0 with 6.3 and then compile 7.4 with 7.0? I can > use chroot on this machine. And it isn't a problem even if I have to do > a three step compile (i.e. 6.3 -> 7.0 -> 7.1 -> 7.4) > > So the question is can I compile some version of lfs which can be > compiled on 6.3 and can compile 7.4 and can I do both or more > compilations in chroot?
This may help: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/~bdubbs/files/updating-lfs.html -- Bruce -- http://linuxfromscratch.org/mailman/listinfo/lfs-support FAQ: http://www.linuxfromscratch.org/lfs/faq.html Unsubscribe: See the above information page
