Date: Wed, 26 Feb 1997 12:57:45 -0700 (MST) From: Nate Williams <nate@mt.sri.com> To: <SimsS@IBM.Net> Cc: "Nate Williams" <nate@mt.sri.com>, "Hackers" <Hackers@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Building PAO kernel on non-PAO system Message-ID: <199702261957.MAA00183@rocky.mt.sri.com> In-Reply-To: <199702261953.TAA172572@out1.ibm.net> References: <199702261953.TAA172572@out1.ibm.net>
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> | > 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!) > | > | You could install 2.2 on it and it would *probably* work. > > Well, it didn't work the *last* time I tried. (About 3 months ago; Same-old > Same-old with the silly sio probes failing was the biggest headache.) Hmm, the sio patches in PAO have changed a ton lately. I don't think the ones in PAO are *that* much different, although with PAO it adds the ability to use the serial ports w/out knowing the specifics of the card itself. But, if you do *know* the specifics the 2.2 code should work. > What does surprise me is that there isn't a *obvious* way to build kernels > or, for that matter, hardware- and kernel-structure-specific apps for various > architectures, versions and configurations on a single machine and distribute > them to one or more "client" machines. I've run shops where this would have > been a REQUIREMENT (e.g.: a farm of diskless workstations in a variety of > interfaces, processors, etc...) What do you mean? Copy the config to a new name, edit it, build the kernel and you're donne. What more do you want? Nate
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