From owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Wed Jan 19 21:01:57 2005 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 5DC4916A4CE for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:01:57 +0000 (GMT) Received: from mail13.speakeasy.net (mail21.sea5.speakeasy.net [69.17.117.23]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 0FE2B43D5A for ; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:01:57 +0000 (GMT) (envelope-from freebsd-questions-local@be-well.ilk.org) Received: (qmail 20583 invoked from network); 19 Jan 2005 21:01:56 -0000 Received: from dsl092-078-145.bos1.dsl.speakeasy.net (HELO be-well.ilk.org) ([66.92.78.145]) (envelope-sender ) by mail13.speakeasy.net (qmail-ldap-1.03) with SMTP for ; 19 Jan 2005 21:01:56 -0000 Received: by be-well.ilk.org (Postfix, from userid 1147) id 769627C; Wed, 19 Jan 2005 16:01:55 -0500 (EST) Sender: lowell@be-well.ilk.org To: "b1smooth@yahoo.com" References: <20050118162912.23971.qmail@web80502.mail.yahoo.com> From: Lowell Gilbert Date: 19 Jan 2005 16:01:55 -0500 In-Reply-To: <20050118162912.23971.qmail@web80502.mail.yahoo.com> Message-ID: <444qhdnnek.fsf@be-well.ilk.org> Lines: 23 User-Agent: Gnus/5.09 (Gnus v5.9.0) Emacs/21.3 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii cc: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: moving a custom kernel to another machine ? X-BeenThere: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list Reply-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org List-Id: User questions List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Wed, 19 Jan 2005 21:01:57 -0000 "b1smooth@yahoo.com" writes: > I have compiled a FreeBSD custom kernel for a pc98 > arch laptop on my i686 box. I was wondering how I > could actually transfer the kernel to floppy so I can > load it into my laptop. I tried to copy the kernel > folder but it's full of symlinks and doesn't produce > an actual kernel for me. is there anyone here who has > experience with cross compiling kernels that can help > me? I already did make and make depend...of course I > can't install it on my i386 box because the > architecture is totally different. > > How do I migrate the kernel ?? A quick look at the Makefiles makes me think that setting the DESTDIR variable (and then installing to a staging area) might work. In a somewhat similar situation, I use the network and an NFS mount... -- Lowell Gilbert, embedded/networking software engineer, Boston area http://be-well.ilk.org/~lowell/