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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