On Thu, Aug 15, 2002 at 08:04:20AM -0500, Mike wrote: > Has anyone thought of trying to graft the NetBSD kernel onto a Linux > binary userland? Or, to put it another way, of running userland under > Linux binary emulation? The reason I ask this is that with some > sufficiently hacked scripts, and GRUB it seems to me that it might be > possible to run GNU/Linux and GNU/NetBSD off the same partition.
Well, I stuffed a full debian system under /compat/linux on NetBSD, just to see what happened. It wasn't too bad, but I didn't end up pursuing it. See http://web.mit.edu/tibbetts/www/netbsd-debian-compat.html though the instructions are a bit out of date (they include using a potato base.tgz) > This would probably require some fresh development, but I'm game. Well, you run into the challenge of getting things like ifconfig, and other OS-specific stuff working. I'm not sure that the payoff is significant. tibbetts
