From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 18 03:09:41 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id DAA09346 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 03:09:41 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id DAA09340 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 03:09:37 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id TAA17891; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 19:34:25 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506181004.TAA17891@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: bringing up freebsd To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 19:34:24 +0930 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com In-Reply-To: from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 16, 95 03:42:52 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1332 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > > A few questions: > > 1) should I start off with the 2.05 kernel? > > Can I run the 2.0 release binaries with the 2.05 kernel > > (I have the November infomagic cd-rom). > > 2.0R binaries will not work with 2.0.5R kernel. This is misleading. In the context of the original question ("can I run a 2.0.5 kernel on top of a 2.0R system"), it's correct, as much changed between 2.0 and 2.0.5, but one certainly _can_ run 2.0 binaries under 2.0.5 (hence the compat20 package). > > Also, what's involved to cross-compile on linux for freebsd? > > Don't know. Read docs for gcc would be a start. Would probably have > to re-build gcc on Linux from scratch, plus pull over all sorts of bits > from FreeBSD. Probably be very difficult. I've done (most) of this. It's a _real_pain_. Better off configuring the BSD box with 20 or 30M of swap and NFS mounting more of the Linux system to get space. -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[