From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 3:24: 7 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from citusc17.usc.edu (citusc17.usc.edu [128.125.38.177]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 16DC437B401 for ; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:23:48 -0800 (PST) Received: (from kris@localhost) by citusc17.usc.edu (8.11.1/8.11.1) id f0JBQw203147; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:26:58 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from kris) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 03:26:58 -0800 From: Kris Kennaway To: Ana Romero Cc: Questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: building a kernel with sources Message-ID: <20010119032658.A2982@citusc17.usc.edu> References: Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: multipart/signed; micalg=pgp-md5; protocol="application/pgp-signature"; boundary="3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF" Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2.5i In-Reply-To: ; from anar@ees2.oulu.fi on Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:02:41PM +0200 Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:02:41PM +0200, Ana Romero wrote: > Hi!! >=20 > I have FreeBSD 4.0 installed in my PC and I need to install the kernel > sources from an older version and have both kernels. How can I do it? >=20 > Do I have to copy kernel sources of the older version and rebuild it? Do I > need anything else? The FreeBSD kernel and userland are a combined whole. You can't safely mix and match kernels and userlands from different versions of FreeBSD. Kris --=20 NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, finger kris@FreeBSD.org --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF Content-Type: application/pgp-signature Content-Disposition: inline -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.0.4 (FreeBSD) Comment: For info see http://www.gnupg.org iD8DBQE6aCSCWry0BWjoQKURAh8tAJ0Q3H0mlce3VldI9LPDni28QB8ZiQCeJ9up AveQU750HdKqWytvvWYIuEQ= =HIXw -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- --3MwIy2ne0vdjdPXF-- To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message