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Date:      Mon, 14 Oct 1996 09:57:54 +0200 (MET DST)
From:      J Wunsch <j@uriah.heep.sax.de>
To:        freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org (FreeBSD hackers)
Cc:        chiuk@cs.indiana.edu (Kenneth Chiu)
Subject:   Re: Setting Up a Kernel Hacking Machine
Message-ID:  <199610140757.JAA04815@uriah.heep.sax.de>
In-Reply-To: <199610122011.PAA18989@moose.cs.indiana.edu> from Kenneth Chiu at "Oct 12, 96 03:11:37 pm"

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As Kenneth Chiu wrote:

> I'm interested in hacking some on the kernel, maybe work on a driver.
> What's the recommended way to set up a single machine for this?
> 
> I'm thinking along the lines of a set of partitions for running
> 2.1.5-RELEASE that I would use for development, and a single partition
> with -current or maybe -SNAP that I would use for testing.

Keep with -current unless you really want to development things on the
-stable branch.  You might want to mirror the CVS tree also, this
gives you the best flexibility.

-- 
cheers, J"org

joerg_wunsch@uriah.heep.sax.de -- http://www.sax.de/~joerg/ -- NIC: JW11-RIPE
Never trust an operating system you don't have sources for. ;-)



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