From owner-freebsd-stable Wed May 10 18:30:55 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Received: from point.osg.gov.bc.ca (point.osg.gov.bc.ca [142.32.102.44]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id AAD8D37BAB2 for ; Wed, 10 May 2000 18:30:47 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from Cy.Schubert@uumail.gov.bc.ca) Received: (from daemon@localhost) by point.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.8.7/8.8.8) id SAA15176; Wed, 10 May 2000 18:30:04 -0700 Received: from passer.osg.gov.bc.ca(142.32.110.29) via SMTP by point.osg.gov.bc.ca, id smtpda15170; Wed May 10 18:30:00 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by passer.osg.gov.bc.ca (8.9.3/8.9.1) id SAA36575; Wed, 10 May 2000 18:29:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from cwsys9.cwsent.com(10.2.2.1), claiming to be "cwsys.cwsent.com" via SMTP by passer9.cwsent.com, id smtpdS36573; Wed May 10 18:29:43 2000 Received: (from uucp@localhost) by cwsys.cwsent.com (8.10.1/8.9.1) id e4B1Tgd00986; Wed, 10 May 2000 18:29:42 -0700 (PDT) Message-Id: <200005110129.e4B1Tgd00986@cwsys.cwsent.com> Received: from localhost.cwsent.com(127.0.0.1), claiming to be "cwsys" via SMTP by localhost.cwsent.com, id smtpdWhI982; Wed May 10 18:29:02 2000 X-Mailer: exmh version 2.1.1 10/15/1999 Reply-To: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group From: Cy Schubert - ITSD Open Systems Group X-OS: FreeBSD 4.0-STABLE X-Sender: cy To: Peter Jeremy Cc: "Chad R. Larson" , freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: FreeBSD 2.2.8 gone for good? In-reply-to: Your message of "Wed, 10 May 2000 06:55:56 +1000." <00May10.065557est.115369@border.alcanet.com.au> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Date: Wed, 10 May 2000 18:29:01 -0700 Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG In message <00May10.065557est.115369@border.alcanet.com.au>, Peter Jeremy write s: > On Sat, May 06, 2000 at 01:48:31PM +1000, Chad R. Larson wrote: > >I'd also point out that you can use anonymous CVS, or CVSup to fetch > >the 2.2.8-STABLE source tree and build it yourself... > > You'll need a 2.x machine to do this. You definitely can't build > 2.x on a 4.x machine, and I suspect you can't on 3.x either. > > [If anyone would like to prove me wrong, I'd like to know because > otherwise I'm going to have to downgrade a 4.x machine to 2.x so > I can do a 2.x buildworld for another machine too under-endowed to > manage a buildworld itself]. Assuming that the 2.x binaries required to build a system will run on 4.x, try the following (skipping a few steps): 1. Create a directory containing a complete 2.x system including all binaries and sources. 2. Chroot to the directory containing the 2.x system. 3. Cd to /usr/src and make buildworld. 4. NFS mount the 2.x /usr/src and /usr/obj on the target system and make installworld. Caveat emptor. Regards, Phone: (250)387-8437 Cy Schubert Fax: (250)387-5766 Team Leader, Sun/DEC Team Internet: Cy.Schubert@osg.gov.bc.ca Open Systems Group, ITSD, ISTA Province of BC To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message