Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:44:42 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx> To: Cary <scattered@babel.acu.edu> Cc: freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: compiling Linux on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010404184442.B17459@cec.wustl.edu> In-Reply-To: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10104041811060.30679-100000@babel.acu.edu>; from scattered@babel.acu.edu on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 06:15:35PM -0500 References: <Pine.LNX.4.10.10104041811060.30679-100000@babel.acu.edu>
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On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 06:15:35PM -0500, Cary wrote: > Please don't flame me, but I would like to try out the new Linux kernel on > one of my older 486s. I would like to be able to compile the kernel on my > dual processor machine and then transfer it to the 486. Has anyone else > done this or attempted it? Any pointers available? TIA. > > Cary Mathews > > Abilene Christian University > ACM Education Committee Configure it, and try to compile it. You will get a failure because the kernel is looking for some executable, genksysms I think, that does god-knows-what on Linux. I've never tried to run this binary under FreeBSD, but you definitely need it to build a kernel. -- Andrew Hesford ajh3@chmod.ath.cx To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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