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Path: euryale.cc.adfa.oz.au!newshost.carno.net.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!news.mira.net.au!news.vbc.net!garlic.com!news.scruz.net!noos.hooked.net!nntp04.primenet.com!nntp.primenet.com!newspump.sol.net!uwm.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!news.sgi.com!news.msfc.nasa.gov!newsfeed.internetmci.com!info.ucla.edu!nnrp.info.ucla.edu!jerijian From: jerijian@lightning.seas.ucla.edu (Arthur D. Jerijian) Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.freebsd.misc Subject: Obtaining and building a kernel as non-root Date: 1 Sep 1996 23:38:41 GMT Organization: University of California, Los Angeles Lines: 15 Message-ID: <slrn52k7k1.p0q.jerijian@lightning.seas.ucla.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: lightning.seas.ucla.edu X-Newsreader: slrn (0.8.8.4 (BETA) UNIX) Hi, I've previously mentioned that I come from a Linux background, so I'm used to taking a Linux kernel source tree (say, linux-2.0.16.tar.gz), untarring it into my account as a non-root user, and proceeding to build it normally. Can something like this be done with the FreeBSD 2.1.5 kernel, or does the kernel need to be built as root specifically in the /usr/src/sys directory? I prefer to build it as a normal user because that's how I build all my packages (before su'ing over to root to do a 'make install'). Thanks. --Arthur