Date: Sun, 18 Jun 1995 19:34:24 +0930 (CST) From: Michael Smith <msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au> To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Cc: questions@freebsd.org, leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com Subject: Re: bringing up freebsd Message-ID: <199506181004.TAA17891@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> In-Reply-To: <Pine.BSF.3.91.950616153634.20525E-100000@haven.uniserve.com> from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 16, 95 03:42:52 pm
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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.
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