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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!darwin.sura.net!haven.umd.edu!uunet!email!vlsivie!volker From: volker@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Volker Hamann) Subject: Re: Patch kits, 386BSD kernel, and lots of confusion. Message-ID: <1993Mar8.144115.12796@email.tuwien.ac.at> Sender: news@email.tuwien.ac.at Nntp-Posting-Host: elba.vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at Reply-To: volker@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at (Volker Hamann) Organization: Technical University of Vienna References: <1993Mar8.032446.3820@wam.umd.edu> Date: Mon, 8 Mar 1993 14:41:15 GMT Lines: 24 In <1993Mar8.032446.3820@wam.umd.edu> publius@wam.umd.edu (Matt Beal) writes: >First of all...it just occured to me that I need the source distribution to >recompile the kernel, don't I? Ugh. I don't have enough space for that...I only >have about 23 megs left. Second...this may sound like a stupid question, but if >the patches only change the kernel, why doesn't one kind soul rebuild 386bsd >(the kernel, located in the root) and post it on an FTP site? This would make >things a lot easier for some of us...I can't install the source, and I really >have no alternative. Would anyone be willing to do this???? >-Matt You don't need all the sources to rebuild the kernel. You only need the /usr/src/sys.386bsd/ hierarchy (about 5 MB). If you have access to an FTP site you probably also have the possibility to NFS-mount a larger disk from a different computer and install the sources there (that's what I did). Volker -- | /| ! Volker Hamann ! Email: volker@vlsivie.tuwien.ac.at | / | ! Department for VLSI Design ! Phone: (++43 1) 58801-8142 |-/--| ! University of Technology ! Fax: (++43 1) 569697 |/ | ! Vienna, Austria "IS THERE ANYBODY OUT THERE?"