From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 16 13:20:48 2002 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from valis.olywa.net (valis.olywa.net [216.173.192.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4E99037B41E for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 13:20:42 -0700 (PDT) Received: from intrepid.snowpoint.com ([216.173.213.173]) by valis.olywa.net (Post.Office MTA v3.5.3 release 223 ID# 0-56662U5000L500S0V35) with ESMTP id net for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 13:20:41 -0700 Received: from ([216.173.213.172]) by intrepid.snowpoint.com (Merak 4.10.020) with SMTP id HUB36795 for ; Sun, 16 Jun 2002 13:16:05 -0700 From: "Corey Snow" To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Date: Sun, 16 Jun 2002 13:20:41 -0700 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-transfer-encoding: 7BIT Subject: A (probably stupid) question Message-ID: <3D0C90A9.3100.E085889@localhost> X-mailer: Pegasus Mail for Win32 (v3.12c) Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk List-ID: List-Archive: (Web Archive) List-Help: (List Instructions) List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG I'm just idly wondering about something which I couldn't find any references to in the FAQs or handbook (meaning that it's probably not doable or not smart to try): Is it possible to build a FreeBSD installation or kernel on another operating system and/or platform? For example, could I use my WinXP box and Cygwin to build a FreeBSD kernel? If I could, I wouldn't have to install FreeBSD as a secondary OS on my only really speedy box that isn't dedicated to something else, just so I can build updates or new kernels for my firewall boxen. I'm guessing that the answer is a resounding "no". But I thought it might be worth asking. :) Thanks, Corey To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message