From owner-freebsd-stable Fri Mar 27 05:34:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id FAA26939 for freebsd-stable-outgoing; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 05:34:43 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from bigbrother ([206.29.49.2]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with SMTP id FAA26934 for ; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 05:34:36 -0800 (PST) (envelope-from vshah@rstcorp.com) Received: (from uucp@localhost) by bigbrother (8.6.12/8.6.9) id JAA06207; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 09:23:40 -0500 Received: from fault.rstcorp.com(206.29.49.18) by bigbrother.rstcorp.com via smap (V2.0) id xma006203; Fri, 27 Mar 98 09:23:34 -0500 Received: (from vshah@localhost) by rstcorp.com (8.8.1/8.8.1) id IAA00491; Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:33:19 -0500 (EST) Date: Fri, 27 Mar 1998 08:33:19 -0500 (EST) Message-Id: <199803271333.IAA00491@rstcorp.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 From: "Viren R. Shah" To: Dexnation Holodream Cc: freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: using 2.2.5 kernel with 2.2.6? In-Reply-To: References: <199803271313.IAA00448@rstcorp.com> X-Mailer: VM 6.40 under 19.16 "Lille" XEmacs Lucid Reply-To: "Viren R. Shah" X-Face: )~y+U*K:yzjz{q<5lzpI_SVef'U.])9g[C9`1N@]u3,MHY7f*l7C)[_NjM4y4K8$uIUh|\u (K&&HS6,M!61&GMTk'mqmB/Qg]]X}"?TzsFl]"2v!bl8']dma.:^IY^a[lbOI>U:b<~FyK3q-p{HmZ mn~g.`~BE!5{2D:}Yi+\_KkWe?XaHj9$ko1k8iKLYv5*_2c8"G=?Up[}hn+7RNM(bzBZ_wWk6!Pf&B ?3Tcm7M7B~W%K/I0aX3]*=jP?aM]H6HBPT`oLk+0n^_;N\2\%|Rhy;p}34Q.jEsM\qtnxcm;ag%Nq Content-Type: text/plain; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-stable@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk >>>>> "dex" == Dexnation Holodream writes: dex> Actually, it IS possible...I ran into the oh, SO very wonderful /dev/sd0a Good. I've gotten other replies which indicate the same. dex> As for the driver, well, I can't guarantee THAT will work, but your boot dex> should. On the other hand, 2.2.6 is a minor version, so the driver will dex> most likely work (but, since I don't have the details, don't take my word dex> for it). I'm going to have to take my chances on that, but I hope it will work since that machine will be practically useless without having both my Compaq RAID controller and my ISA PnP (the reason I need 2.2.6) modem working. Thanks for the reply. dex> -Jon Mischo >> I'm using an alternate boot floppy (made by Mark Dawson that includes >> a driver for the Compaq RAID controller), and am thinking of >> downloading 2.2.6 to install. My plan is to : >> 1. Install 2.2.6 using the 2.2.5 boot floppy >> 2. Try and merge the Compaq RAID driver into the 2.2.6 kernel sources >> 3. then compile a 2.2.6 kernel and boot from it. >> Thanks Viren -- Viren R. Shah | viren@rstcorp.com Research Associate | viren@viren.org Reliable Software Technologies | http://www.rstcorp.com/~vshah To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-stable" in the body of the message