Date: Thu, 18 Sep 1997 19:50:50 +0200 (MET DST) From: Wilko Bulte <wilko@yedi.iaf.nl> To: mike@smith.net.au (Mike Smith) Cc: nik@iii.co.uk, mike@smith.net.au, hackers@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Different kernels for the bindist and boot.flp? Message-ID: <199709181750.TAA02619@yedi.iaf.nl> In-Reply-To: <199709181150.VAA00568@word.smith.net.au> from "Mike Smith" at Sep 18, 97 09:20:21 pm
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As Mike Smith wrote... > > > No, it's actually quite hard. Due to the way the boot floppy works, > > > you have to build a custom image with your new kernel, and then hack > > > sysinstall to splat a new kernel image down after it's extracted the > > > bindist. You could alternatively specify a different kernel to go in > > > the bindist, which is relatively straightforward but slow (you have to > > > build a release to do it). > > > > This is why I was thinking about seperating the bin dist into a bin dist and > > a kernel dist. The new bin dist contains everything non-kernel specific, > > the kernel dists each contain one kernel with support for a specific set of > > features, and the kernel config file used to create them. > > This rapidly reduces to supplying the kernel sources and a text editor. > The alternative is a million different kernel distributions, which are > nothing short of a terror to maintain. There is already a name for this. It's called 'Linux' ;-) _ ____________________________________________________________________ | / o / / _ Bulte email: wilko@yedi.iaf.nl http://www.tcja.nl/~wilko |/|/ / / /( (_) Arnhem, The Netherlands - Do, or do not. There is no 'try' ----------------------------------------------------------------------Yoda
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