Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:57:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Cc: chiuk@cs.indiana.edu (Kenneth Chiu) Subject: Re: Setting Up a Kernel Hacking Machine Message-ID: <199610140757.JAA04815@uriah.heep.sax.de> In-Reply-To: <199610122011.PAA18989@moose.cs.indiana.edu> from Kenneth Chiu at "Oct 12, 96 03:11:37 pm"
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As Kenneth Chiu wrote: > I'm interested in hacking some on the kernel, maybe work on a driver. > What's the recommended way to set up a single machine for this? > > I'm thinking along the lines of a set of partitions for running > 2.1.5-RELEASE that I would use for development, and a single partition > with -current or maybe -SNAP that I would use for testing. Keep with -current unless you really want to development things on the -stable branch. You might want to mirror the CVS tree also, this gives you the best flexibility. -- cheers, J"org joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)
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