Hello Manuel!

  MB> First export big partition on the linux box. For this
    > you need an /etc/export file. I'm not sure about the
    > format of the file, this depends on the linux distrib.
    > 'man nfsd', 'man mountd', 'man exports' should give
    > the infos. There may be HOWTOs available for this too.
    > Next mount the linux's disk over NFS to the NetBSD
    > box: mount linux_box:/path_to_partition /mnt Now, when
    > you cd to /mnt, you'll use the linux's disk instead of
    > the local disk. You can extract syssrc.tgz and compile
    > a kernel here.

Thanks, it's good to know this is possible.  I doubt I'll be
attempting it though because it depends on some things that
I don't currently have set up (and in some cases may never
have! =o)

Regards,
  -Andy.


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