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From: overby@cray.com (Glen Overby)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
Subject: Re: 386bsd: kernel rebuild?, disklabel?
Message-ID: <1992Aug20.105643.22025@hemlock.cray.com>
Date: 20 Aug 92 15:56:43 GMT
References: <1992Aug20.144812.29251@engage.pko.dec.com>
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In article <1992Aug20.144812.29251@engage.pko.dec.com> ewanco@kalvin.enet.dec.com writes:
>Evidently you need the source to rebuild the kernel, unlike my DECstation 3100.
Unlike your DECStation 3100, you get sources for 386bsd.
>Is there any way you can load the kernel code and rebuild it without
>downloading and unpacking the entire source distribution? I don't yet have
cat (split cpio.Z distribution files) | zcat | \
cpio -icadmv (and other flags) 'usr/src/sys.386bsd*' 'usr/src/include*'
(yes, the cat on the front is necessary as zcat will *always* append a .Z)
>second, WHAT THE *^%$#@ DOES disklabel DO? and how do I use it? The man page
Well, you have fdisk to put MS-DOS / ROM BIOS style partitions on your disk,
and disklabel to put BSD style partitions on your disk (optionally in a disk
partition).
I think your DECstation does something similar.
>Am I correct in assuming that there are virtually nil docs for 386bsd?
NO. There's the sources :-)
some man pages are available (I'm not sure which distribution kit they're in).
Glen Overby