From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jul 24 04:24:20 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id EAA18591 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 04:24:20 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from lucy.bedford.net (lucy.bedford.net [206.99.145.54]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id EAA18586 for ; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 04:24:17 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from listread@lucy.bedford.net) Received: (from listread@localhost) by lucy.bedford.net (8.8.8/8.8.8) id HAA09154; Fri, 24 Jul 1998 07:08:31 -0400 (EDT) (envelope-from listread) Message-Id: <199807241108.HAA09154@lucy.bedford.net> Subject: Re: building a kernel for different machine In-Reply-To: <19980723171801.A2633@gibet.prism.uvsq.fr> from Dang-Ngoc TUYET-TRAM at "Jul 23, 98 05:18:01 pm" To: Dang-Ngoc.Tuyet-Tram@prism.uvsq.fr (Dang-Ngoc TUYET-TRAM) Date: Fri, 24 Jul 1998 07:08:31 -0400 (EDT) Cc: freeBSD-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-no-archive: yes Reply-to: djv@bedford.net From: CyberPeasant X-Mailer: ELM [version 2.4ME+ PL38 (25)] MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG Dang-Ngoc TUYET-TRAM wrote: > Hello, > > Well I thing I'm going to ask stupid questions so please don't > flame me to much ok ? > > Suppose I have 3 computers with the following characteristic > > A : bi-pentium pro with FreeBSD3.0 (19980520) > B : 486 with FreeBSD2.2.6 > C : cyrix with FreeBSD2.2.6 > > A and C work pretty well, and FreeBSD2.2.6 is installed on > B but the kernel cannot be rebuild because there is not enough > disk space on it (I must absolutely rebuild the kernel because my > NE2000 clone ethernet card cannot work without rebuilding the kernel, > right ?) . Can I build the kernel using the parameters of B Not so. If the NE2000 is using the default IRQ and IO spex, GENERIC kernel in 2.2.6 will handle it fine. Suppose you can use -c at boot to configure that NE2k card to work, if it is not at the standard location. Then you can mount some spare disk space from A or C on B via NFS, and do the compilation on B. > on machine C and then copy it to B via a Floppy disk ? Yeah, that would be easy. No problem. > And if I build the kernel on machine A and copy it to B witout > reinstalling other components, will I have B under FreeBSD3.0 ? > or won't just it work ? I think you'll have a 3 kernel and a 2.2.6 userland. This will cause grief, I think. DV -- Sancho Panza: `Microsoft Windows NT Server is the most secure network operating system available.' Don Quixote: `You are mistaken, Sancho.' To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message