Re: Building OSkit on FreeBSD

To: hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net, oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu
Subject: Re: Building OSkit on FreeBSD
From: Mike Hibler <mike@fast.cs.utah.edu>
Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 08:22:15 -0700 (MST)
Sender: owner-oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu

> From: "Gregg C Levine" <hansolofalcon@worldnet.att.net>
> To: <oskit-users@fast.cs.utah.edu>
> Subject: Building OSkit on FreeBSD
> Date: Wed, 23 Jan 2002 02:42:25 -0500
> 
> 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? Will the
> FreeBSD bootloader work there? 
> 

As Alastair says, it should build fine under 4.4.

Unfortunately, the ELF-based FreeBSD boot loaders (post 2.x?) don't work
with OSKit.  Probably not hard, we just haven't done it.

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