From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 23 06:59:16 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id GAA19714 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 06:59:16 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from tyree.iii.co.uk (tyree.iii.co.uk [195.89.149.230]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id GAA19709 for ; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 06:59:13 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from nik@iii.co.uk) From: nik@iii.co.uk Received: from carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (carrig.strand.iii.co.uk [192.168.7.25]) by tyree.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id OAA26056; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:58:49 +0100 (BST) Received: (from nik@localhost) by carrig.strand.iii.co.uk (8.8.8/8.8.7) id OAA18429; Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:57:43 +0100 (BST) Message-ID: <19980723145742.11204@iii.co.uk> Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:57:43 +0100 To: David Nunn Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 kernel with 2.2.5 system? References: <3.0.1.32.19980723121625.006a1cc8@192.168.29.10> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Mailer: Mutt 0.85e In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980723121625.006a1cc8@192.168.29.10>; from David Nunn on Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 12:16:25PM +0100 Organization: interactive investor Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 12:16:25PM +0100, David Nunn wrote: > I know this is a astrange request, but can I use a 2.2.6 kernel ona 2.2.5 > system? Technically yes, in practice, no. The chance of subtle incompatibilities between the kernel and userland code is too great. > The original sysadmin never installed the sources for the kernel, and so I > am stuck with a 2.2.5 system and 2.2.6 kernel sources. Upgrading is not an > option since the office cannot afford that amount of downtime on this, the > only connection to the internet they have. > > Can anyone help? (Please CC any replies to me personally) I see (by your phone number) that you're in London. A tar'd and gzip'd copy of src/sys from 2.2.5 is a shade over 4MB in size. I can put that up for FTP for you if you like, or if you want to send me a Zip disk I can put it on that and send it back. Or that's 3 1.44MB floppy disks if you'd prefer. Or depending on your proxmity to the Strand, I could drop them in one lunch time. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message