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Subject: Re: About to make the jump to -current...
To: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au (Michael Smith)
Date: Sun, 28 Apr 1996 20:40:37 -0700 (PDT)
From: "JULIAN Elischer" <julian@ref.tfs.com>
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In-Reply-To: <199604280717.QAA10735@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> from "Michael Smith" at Apr 28, 96 04:47:33 pm
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what I do is make a chroot system 
and build it in there..
then boot off the chroot partition when done..
OR 
just instal over th e2.1 stuff :)

> 
> Warner Losh stands accused of saying:
> > 
> > I want to build a -current kernel on a -stable system.  Is that a
> > reasonable thing to do?  Will the resulting kernel work with -stable
> > binaries?  Will I need to build the config out of -current in order to
> > configure the kernel, or will the one in -stable be good enough?
> 
> You'll have lots of trouble 8(