From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Jan 19 6:19: 5 2001 Delivered-To: freebsd-questions@freebsd.org Received: from post.mail.nl.demon.net (post-10.mail.nl.demon.net [194.159.73.20]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 8737537B400; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 06:18:44 -0800 (PST) Received: from [195.11.243.26] (helo=Debug) by post.mail.nl.demon.net with smtp (Exim 3.14 #2) id 14JcNH-0004B5-00; Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:18:43 +0000 To: Ana Romero , Kris Kennaway , Questions FreeBSD From: Cliff Sarginson Subject: Re: building a kernel with sources Date: Fri, 19 Jan 2001 14:18:43 GMT X-Mailer: www.webmail.nl.demon.net X-Sender: postmaster@btvs.demon.nl X-Originating-IP: 192.250.24.58 Message-Id: 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. What is the problem with that ? You cannot run them both at the same time :) Cliff > > > _________________________________ > > 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 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message