odd thing is that he installed 710 desktop... on a moniterless machine... i can handle. kernel source is on the server... can handle... no cd, floppy, or usb port... the problome. i told him that it was dumb to get it this way, but he cant get the system reinstalled. Jim Crumley wrote: > On Sat, Dec 15, 2007 at 11:16:14AM -0800, Anna Edwards wrote: >> a friend of mine gave me the oddest task. he likes both ubuntu >> and free bsd kernal. he asked me to put the freebsd 6.3 kernel >> in his ubuntu 7.10 desktop. how would i do this? > Take a look at Debian GNU/kFreeBSD > http://www.debian.org/ports/kfreebsd-gnu/. > Someone there might have used the FreeBSD kernel with an Ubuntu > install. Or you may be able to transform a Debian GNU/kFreeBSD > install into a Ubuntu install and just keep the FreeeBSD kernel. > -- > Jim Crumley |Twin Cities Linux Users Group Mailing List (TCLUG) > Ruthless Debian Zealot |http://www.mn-linux.org/ > Never laugh at live dragons | > _______________________________________________ > TCLUG Mailing List - Minneapolis/St. Paul, Minnesota > tclug-list at mn-linux.org > http://mailman.mn-linux.org/mailman/listinfo/tclug-list ____________________________________________________________________________________ Be a better friend, newshound, and know-it-all with Yahoo! Mobile. Try it now. http://mobile.yahoo.com/;_ylt=Ahu06i62sR8HDtDypao8Wcj9tAcJ