From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jan 21 17:04:24 1996 Return-Path: owner-questions Received: (from root@localhost) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) id RAA22224 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 17:04:24 -0800 (PST) Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.freebsd.org (8.7.3/8.7.3) with ESMTP id RAA22218 for ; Sun, 21 Jan 1996 17:04:13 -0800 (PST) Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.12/8.6.9) id LAA16832; Mon, 22 Jan 1996 11:41:12 +1030 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199601220111.LAA16832@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: Recompiling Kernel with Live File System To: obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu (David E. O'Brien) Date: Mon, 22 Jan 1996 11:41:12 +1030 (CST) Cc: questions@freebsd.org In-Reply-To: <9601202333.AA25811@toadflax.cs.ucdavis.edu> from "David E. O'Brien" at Jan 20, 96 03:33:10 pm MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-questions@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk David E. O'Brien stands accused of saying: > > > If we assume that the live filesystem CD is mounted, and you're using csh : > > > > # mkdir /usr/src/sys > > # cd /usr/src/sys > > # foreach i (/cdrom/usr/src/sys/*) > > foreach? ln -s $i > > foreach? end > > Won't work. You are creating links to the DIRECTORIES. And that will That's right. And in the DIRECTORIES are FILES. All basic stuff. > give you some trouble. You may still try to write to the CDROM. Rather > you want to create real directories on your hard disk and make links to > the FILES. lndir will do all this for you. Mea maxima culpa, I forgot libkern. Apart from that, _nothing_ gets written into the kernel source tree. This is a fundamental feature of the way that multiple configurations are supported. (Note, I have done this, modulo libkern, many times. I know it works, both off CD, and also off readonly NFS-mounted source trees.) > -- David (obrien@cs.ucdavis.edu) -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and (GSM mobile) 0411-222-496 [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] "Who does BSD?" "We do Chucky, we do." [[