From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 6 20:50:59 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from cygnus.rush.net (cygnus.rush.net [209.45.245.133]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 49FF914D58 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:50:56 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from bright@rush.net) Received: from localhost (bright@localhost) by cygnus.rush.net (8.9.3/8.9.3) with SMTP id XAA11743; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:57:11 -0400 (EDT) Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:57:09 -0500 (EST) From: Alfred Perlstein To: Matthew Emmerton Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Building Kernel on Minimal Install In-Reply-To: <000b01bec822$982a39e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Matthew Emmerton wrote: > > I've got a 486 acting as a NATD machine for my network. It's got a > tiny hard drive which can only hold a minimal install, and there isn't > enough HDD to install /usr/src/sys. I've tried extracting > /usr/src/sys onto another machine (in a different directory, > temporarily symlinked as /usr/src/sys), and attempted to build a > kernel. However, this other machine isn't running the same version > and config complains of version errors. > > What is the easiest way to get a custom kernel for my machine without > upgrading any of my others?? NFS. just export the source to the 486, have the 486 mount and build there. enjoy, -Alfred To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message