From owner-freebsd-hackers Mon Oct 14 01:08:19 1996 Return-Path: owner-hackers Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) id BAA09716 for hackers-outgoing; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 01:08:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: from irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de [141.76.1.11]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.5/8.7.3) with SMTP id BAA09633 for ; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 01:08:04 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sax.sax.de (sax.sax.de [193.175.26.33]) by irz301.inf.tu-dresden.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with ESMTP id KAA05593; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:07:38 +0200 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by sax.sax.de (8.6.12/8.6.12-s1) with UUCP id KAA05553; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 10:07:37 +0200 Received: (from j@localhost) by uriah.heep.sax.de (8.7.6/8.6.9) id JAA04815; Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:57:54 +0200 (MET DST) From: J Wunsch Message-Id: <199610140757.JAA04815@uriah.heep.sax.de> Subject: Re: Setting Up a Kernel Hacking Machine To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers) Date: Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:57:54 +0200 (MET DST) Cc: chiuk@cs.indiana.edu (Kenneth Chiu) Reply-To: joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de (Joerg Wunsch) In-Reply-To: <199610122011.PAA18989@moose.cs.indiana.edu> from Kenneth Chiu at "Oct 12, 96 03:11:37 pm" X-Phone: +49-351-2012 669 X-PGP-Fingerprint: DC 47 E6 E4 FF A6 E9 8F 93 21 E0 7D F9 12 D6 4E X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL17 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-hackers@freebsd.org X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk 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. ;-)