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From: Kris Kennaway <kris@obsecurity.org>
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On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:38:38PM +0100, Luca Masini wrote:
> Niclas Zeising wrote:
> >Have a look in the handbook here:
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html 
> >
> >and here:
> >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html 
> >
> >for instructions on how to rebuild/upgrade your kernel and system.
> Will do!
> :-P
> 
> >Usually you have to upgrade userland along with your kernel or things
> >will get out of sync and Bad Things(tm) will happen.
> I don't want to upgrade the current system.
> I only need to be able to compile a reference GENERIC of 7-CURRENT
> in a user subdirectory.

Running a 7.x kernel on a 6.x system is unsupported.  You can do it,
but some things won't work and it's for "advanced users only".  A good
alternative might be for you to run 7.0 under qemu.

Kris