[Clfs-support] [SUPPORT] how to cross-compile to a particular laptop

[John]

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" <rheluani at gmail.com>
To: <clfs-support at lists.cross-lfs.org>
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
>
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