Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 10:50:30 -0500 From: "Steve Sims" <SimsS@IBM.Net> To: "Hackers" <Hackers@FreeBSD.ORG> Subject: Building PAO kernel on non-PAO system Message-ID: <199702261551.PAA27088@out2.ibm.net>
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Greetings, FreeBSD Dudes & Dudettes.... I've got an old laptop that I'd like to run Our Favorite OS(tm) on, but it **definitely** requires the PAO package to sort out some laptop-esque "features" that Compaq decided to implement. I've got 2.1.6 loaded on the laptop right now (with PAO) and it works pretty well.... (Thanks, Hosokawa-san!) The laptop is only a 486/33, so building a new kernel takes just a few ticks shy of FOREVER on the thing. I'd like to play around with different kernel configs and the like, but I lose interest an hour or so into the make.... My desktop machine is a P5 with gobs of RAM and disk (running [pretty]-current, FWIW) and it occurs to me that one approach might be to build the PAO-enabled 2.1.6 kernel on the desktop and just NFS it back to the laptop (thereby saving tons o' time). Is there an easy way to do this? I notice that PAO mungs a whole lot of different sources as well as some included files, and (complicating the problem, I admit) the P-5 "build" machine is running a newer version of FreeBSD than the laptop anyway. Obviously, (?) I don't want to load PAO on the desktop box, I can't juggle PAO against the -current distribution... Can someone show me the way? `chroot`? A parallel /sys hierarchy? Signed, Confused in Laptop-land ...sjs...
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