Date: 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>
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In article <000b01bec822$982a39e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>, Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca> 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
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