From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 6:11:54 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from oulu.fi (ousrvr.oulu.fi [130.231.240.1]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 9462037B400; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 06:11:31 -0800 (PST) Received: from ee.oulu.fi (ees2.oulu.fi [130.231.61.23]) by oulu.fi (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id QAA29809; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:11:29 +0200 (EET) Received: from stekt56 (stekt56 [130.231.60.96]) by ee.oulu.fi (8.11.1/8.11.1) with ESMTP id f0JEBSI24396; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:11:29 +0200 (EET) Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 16:11:28 +0200 (EET) From: Ana Romero X-Sender: To: Kris Kennaway Cc: Questions FreeBSD Subject: Re: building a kernel with sources In-Reply-To: <20010119032658.A2982@citusc17.usc.edu> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG How can I solve it? The only way that now crosses my mind is install both versions as different operating systems. _________________________________ Ana Romero Centre for Wireless Communications PL 4500, Tutkijantie 2 E, FIN-90014 University of Oulu Oulu, Finland On Fri, 19 Jan 2001, Kris Kennaway wrote: >On Fri, Jan 19, 2001 at 12:02:41PM +0200, Ana Romero wrote: >> Hi!! >> >> 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? >> >> 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 > >-- >NOTE: To fetch an updated copy of my GPG key which has not expired, >finger kris@FreeBSD.org > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message