Date: Mon, 20 Jun 2005 23:28:41 -0700 From: Glenn Dawson <glenn@antimatter.net> To: "Marc G. Fournier" <scrappy@hub.org>, freebsd-stable@freebsd.org Subject: Re: 4.x binaries on a 5.x machine ... Message-ID: <6.1.0.6.2.20050620232733.07d3ecb0@cobalt.antimatter.net> In-Reply-To: <20050621032200.N993@ganymede.hub.org> References: <20050621032200.N993@ganymede.hub.org>
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At 11:24 PM 6/20/2005, Marc G. Fournier wrote: >I'm looking at adding my first 5.x server onto our network, but am >wondering how 'backward compatible' things are still ... > >Mainly, could I run a 4.x jail'd environment on a 5.x server, or would I >have to upgrade the jail first? This option from the GENERIC kernel config in 5.4 would seem to suggest that it would work.... though I haven't tried it myself. options COMPAT_FREEBSD4 # Compatible with FreeBSD4 -Glenn >Long term goal is to move all boxes over to 5.x, but I can't do it all at >once ... I also want to spend some time testing/making sure that 5.x will >work in our environment, which means any jail's I move over to the server >need to be able to be copied back again to a 4.x server if things don't >work ... so leaving the jail environment itself "4.x" is prefer'd ... > >Thanks ... > >---- >Marc G. Fournier Hub.Org Networking Services (http://www.hub.org) >Email: scrappy@hub.org Yahoo!: yscrappy ICQ: 7615664 >_______________________________________________ >freebsd-stable@freebsd.org mailing list >http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-stable >To unsubscribe, send any mail to "freebsd-stable-unsubscribe@freebsd.org"
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