From owner-freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Sat May 15 14:37:49 2004 Return-Path: Delivered-To: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Received: from mx1.FreeBSD.org (mx1.freebsd.org [216.136.204.125]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 944D816A4CE for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 14:37:49 -0700 (PDT) Received: from sccrmhc12.comcast.net (sccrmhc12.comcast.net [204.127.202.56]) by mx1.FreeBSD.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 4078443D2F for ; Sat, 15 May 2004 14:37:48 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from julian@elischer.org) Received: from interjet.elischer.org ([24.7.73.28]) by comcast.net (sccrmhc12) with ESMTP id <2004051521374701200l3aeke>; Sat, 15 May 2004 21:37:47 +0000 Received: from localhost (localhost.elischer.org [127.0.0.1]) by InterJet.elischer.org (8.9.1a/8.9.1) with ESMTP id OAA02391; Sat, 15 May 2004 14:37:46 -0700 (PDT) Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 14:37:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Julian Elischer To: "Marc G. Fournier" In-Reply-To: <20040515151158.Q13297@ganymede.hub.org> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII cc: freebsd-current@freebsd.org Subject: Re: COMPAT4X and 5.x ... how backwards compatible? X-BeenThere: freebsd-current@freebsd.org X-Mailman-Version: 2.1.1 Precedence: list List-Id: Discussions about the use of FreeBSD-current List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , X-List-Received-Date: Sat, 15 May 2004 21:37:49 -0000 On Sat, 15 May 2004, Marc G. Fournier wrote: > > I'm picking up some new servers, and want to start looking at migrating to > 5.x from 4.x ... how viable is it to install 5.x on the new server, and > move an existing jail'd environment over to there and run it, with the 4.x > binaries/libraries inside of the jail? Is this "wishful thinking" on my > part, that this would be possible? I have done this.. you wll need to put in place a few static binaries from 5.x 'ps, top, netstat come to mind' and it won't let you log in until you mont the devfs in the jail. > > > ---- > Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) > Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 > _______________________________________________ > freebsd-current@freebsd.org mailing list > http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-current > To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-current-unsubscribe@freebsd.org" >