From owner-freebsd-questions Tue Jul 6 20:20:29 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from twwells.com (twwells.com [209.118.236.57]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with SMTP id EBA6514E03 for ; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 20:20:14 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from news@twwells.com) Received: from news by twwells.com with local (Exim 1.71 #2) id 111iD0-0007QV-00; Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:17:18 -0400 From: bill@twwells.com (T. William Wells) To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Building Kernel on Minimal Install Message-ID: <7lugo6$rl9$1@twwells.com> References: <000b01bec822$982a39e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca> Date: Tue, 6 Jul 1999 23:17:18 -0400 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In article <000b01bec822$982a39e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>, Matthew Emmerton wrote: : What is the easiest way to get a custom kernel for my machine without : upgrading any of my others?? Easiest, if not fastest: Make a *complete* copy of your machine on a random empty directory of some other FreeBSD machine. Chroot into that directory, cd /, and then su - root. Then you're almost running a clone of your machine. The only differences are that you're using the other kernel and that some things, like /proc, won't be "live". But within that chroot area, you shouldn't have any trouble doing a config, compile, and link. About the only thing I can think of that would keep this from working is if your machine is running ELF and the other machine is still a.out. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message