Re: Building OSkit on FreeBSD

To: "Gregg C Levine" <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>
Subject: Re: Building OSkit on FreeBSD
From: Alastair David Reid <reid@cs.utah.edu>
Date: 23 Jan 2002 06:53:28 -0700
Cc: <oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu>
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> Hello from Gregg C Levine obviously with Jedi Knight Computers I am
> installing FreeBSD 4.4 on an Intel Pentium platform. Any
> prerequisites for building OSkit there? And more importantly, what
> about booting the kernels that are created from the source code?

FreeBSD is our standard build environment in Utah (though I think
we're still on 4.3).  There should be no problems.

> Will the FreeBSD bootloader work there?

We don't use that so much (we prefer to have a dedicated test machine
running netboot) but, again, it should work fine.

--
Alastair

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Building OSkit on FreeBSD

From: "Gregg C Levine" <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>