From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 16:45:23 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from chmod.ath.cx (CC2-1242.charter-stl.com [24.217.116.226]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 07AB437B424 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 16:45:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from ajh3@chmod.ath.cx) Received: by chmod.ath.cx (Postfix, from userid 1001) id 8F8AEA91A; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:44:42 -0500 (CDT) Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:44:42 -0500 From: Andrew Hesford To: Cary Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: compiling Linux on FreeBSD? Message-ID: <20010404184442.B17459@cec.wustl.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from scattered@babel.acu.edu on Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 06:15:35PM -0500 X-Loop: Andrew Hesford Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG 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