From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Jun 30 6:32:42 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from titan.metropolitan.at (mail.metropolitan.at [195.212.98.131]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id D974114DB6 for ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 06:32:34 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from mladavac@metropolitan.at) Received: by TITAN with Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) id ; Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:35:33 +0200 Message-ID: <55586E7391ACD211B9730000C11002761796C3@r-lmh-wi-100.corpnet.at> From: Ladavac Marino To: "'Cambria, Mike'" , "'Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au'" Cc: "'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org'" Subject: RE: Build kernel for another PC Date: Wed, 30 Jun 1999 15:29:38 +0200 X-Priority: 3 MIME-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Internet Mail Service (5.0.1458.49) Content-Type: text/plain Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG > -----Original Message----- > From: Cambria, Mike [SMTP:mcambria@lucent.com] > Sent: Wednesday, June 30, 1999 3:26 PM > To: 'Michael.Still@ipaustralia.gov.au'; Cambria, Mike > Cc: 'freebsd-questions@freebsd.org' > Subject: RE: Build kernel for another PC > > > I was hoping that it was as simple as copying the KERNEL file to > /KERNEL on > the other system. When I read the Makefile for "install", other than > changing the owner and copying the file, other conditions were > present. I > didn't want to guess. [ML] Yes, it is, except that /kernel is protected from modification and deletion by some UFS flags, which you will have to reset/set when you copy in the new kernel. This protection is not neccessary for the correct operation of the system, but is a wise precaution nevertheless. The mail below was also showing how to build the kernel in the first place [ML] /Marino [kernel build instructions deleted] To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message