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Date:      Tue, 6 Jul 1999 22:57:09 -0500 (EST)
From:      Alfred Perlstein <bright@rush.net>
To:        Matthew Emmerton <matt@gsicomp.on.ca>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG
Subject:   Re: Building Kernel on Minimal Install
Message-ID:  <Pine.BSF.3.96.990706225622.14320Z-100000@cygnus.rush.net>
In-Reply-To: <000b01bec822$982a39e0$1200a8c0@gsicomp.on.ca>

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On Tue, 6 Jul 1999, Matthew Emmerton wrote:

> 
> I've got a 486 acting as a NATD machine for my network.  It's got a
> tiny hard drive which can only hold a minimal install, and there isn't
> enough HDD to install /usr/src/sys.  I've tried extracting
> /usr/src/sys onto another machine (in a different directory,
> temporarily symlinked as /usr/src/sys), and attempted to build a
> kernel.  However, this other machine isn't running the same version
> and config complains of version errors.
> 
> What is the easiest way to get a custom kernel for my machine without
> upgrading any of my others??

NFS.

just export the source to the 486, have the 486 mount and build there.

enjoy,
-Alfred



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