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- From: overby@cray.com (Glen Overby)
- Subject: Re: 386bsd: kernel rebuild?, disklabel?
- Message-ID: <1992Aug20.105643.22025@hemlock.cray.com>
- Lines: 28
- Organization: ^$
- References: <1992Aug20.144812.29251@engage.pko.dec.com>
- Date: 20 Aug 92 10:56:43 CDT
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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
-