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Date:      Wed, 4 Apr 2001 20:56:30 -0500 (CDT)
From:      Cary <scattered@babel.acu.edu>
To:        Andrew Hesford <ajh3@chmod.ath.cx>
Cc:        freebsd-questions <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org>
Subject:   Re: compiling Linux on FreeBSD?
Message-ID:  <Pine.LNX.4.10.10104042055160.31381-100000@babel.acu.edu>
In-Reply-To: <20010404184442.B17459@cec.wustl.edu>

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Thanks for the reply.  I'll keep this in mind.  I was trying to avoid
compling the newest kernel on a 486, but if I must, I must.  Thank you
again.

Cary Mathews

Abilene Christian University
ACM Education Committee


On Wed, 4 Apr 2001, Andrew Hesford wrote:

> On Wed, Apr 04, 2001 at 06:15:35PM -0500, Cary wrote:
> > Please don't flame me, but I would like to try out the new Linux kernel on
> > one of my older 486s.  I would like to be able to compile the kernel on my
> > dual processor machine and then transfer it to the 486.  Has anyone else
> > done this or attempted it?  Any pointers available?  TIA.
> > 
> > Cary Mathews
> > 
> > Abilene Christian University
> > ACM Education Committee
> 
> Configure it, and try to compile it. You will get a failure because the
> kernel is looking for some executable, genksysms I think, that does
> god-knows-what on Linux. I've never tried to run this binary under
> FreeBSD, but you definitely need it to build a kernel.
> -- 
> Andrew Hesford
> ajh3@chmod.ath.cx
> 


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