From owner-freebsd-questions Wed Apr 4 18:58: 1 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from babel.acu.edu (babel.acu.edu [150.252.167.240]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4144137B443 for ; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 18:57:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from scattered@babel.acu.edu) Received: from localhost (scattered@localhost) by babel.acu.edu (8.9.3/8.8.7) with ESMTP id UAA31394; Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:56:30 -0500 Date: Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:56:30 -0500 (CDT) From: Cary To: Andrew Hesford Cc: freebsd-questions Subject: Re: compiling Linux on FreeBSD? In-Reply-To: <20010404184442.B17459@cec.wustl.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Thanks for the reply. I'll keep this in mind. I was trying to avoid compling the newest kernel on a 486, but if I must, I must. Thank you again. Cary Mathews Abilene Christian University ACM Education Committee On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote: > 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