Jeremy Utley wrote:
On 10/7/06, Brandon Peirce <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
But I also prefer to avoid messing with the host sysem! I didn't study
the patch yet, but you say it's kernel module, so if one is building in a
chroot then that still the host kernel.
Tough choices... oh, well.
host system.
I used the uname kernel module hack extensively in the old days. All
it does is makes the output of the uname command report i486 instead
of i686. This is enough to force everything to compile with only the
i486 instruction set - insmod the module on your host, start building,
and rmmod it when you complete the build. That's how I built my old
bootcd, and also did a number of builds for an old 486DX4-100 machine
I used to use as a firewall. Works great, and won't affect your host
at all, other than the need to install your host distro's kernel
sources package.
Thanckx for the explaination. Knowing what it does, and having
control goes a long way to making me feel comfortable with
using it ;)
Jeremy
Brandon.
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