Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 13:52:07 -0700 (MST) From: Terry Lambert <terry@lambert.org> To: nate@mt.sri.com (Nate Williams) Cc: SimsS@IBM.Net, nate@mt.sri.com, Hackers@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building PAO kernel on non-PAO system Message-ID: <199702262052.NAA28695@phaeton.artisoft.com> In-Reply-To: <199702261957.MAA00183@rocky.mt.sri.com> from "Nate Williams" at Feb 26, 97 12:57:45 pm
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> > What does surprise me is that there isn't a *obvious* way to > > build kernels or, for that matter, hardware- and kernel- > > structure-specific apps for various architectures, versions > > and configurations on a single machine and distribute them > > to one or more "client" machines. I've run shops where > > this would have been a REQUIREMENT (e.g.: a farm of diskless > > workstations in a variety of interfaces, processors, etc...) > > What do you mean? Copy the config to a new name, edit it, build the > kernel and you're donne. What more do you want? Building the right ifconfig, the right ps, the right w, the right netstat, the right vmstat, the right config itself, the right install, the right login, etc.. Terry Lambert terry@lambert.org --- Any opinions in this posting are my own and not those of my present or previous employers.
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