Subject: Re: cross compile: the chicken-egg problem
To: Todd Vierling <tv@pobox.com>
From: David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com>
List: tech-toolchain
Date: 06/17/1998 10:45:42
On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Todd Vierling wrote:

> On Wed, 17 Jun 1998, Tim Rightnour wrote:
> 
> : # No.  You _must_ have a NetBSD system in order to build NetBSD bootable
> : # images.  That's why we ship bootstrap floppies... <g>
> : 
> : Ahh..  thats a pity..  I was hoping to be able to do kernel development at
> : work, and boot my work machines (which have a large variety of unsupported
> : parts) with test kernels.  I guess that answers my chicken-egg problem.. You
> : *need* a chicken.  Whats the requirement?  the vnode filesystem?
> 
> - the virtual disk (vnode)
> - the ability to disklabel the virtual disk with a NetBSD disklabel
>   (it will be used as a ramdisk)
> - a 4.4BSD filesystem to use with the ramdisk
> 
	Or - the target machine can netboot :)

		David/absolute

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