From owner-freebsd-questions Mon Apr 13 16:03:24 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA16768 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:03:24 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (gdi.uoregon.edu [128.223.170.30]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) with ESMTP id XAA16619 for ; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 23:02:56 GMT (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA05831; Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:02:46 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Mon, 13 Apr 1998 16:02:46 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: robert w hall cc: FreeBSD Questions Subject: Re: freebsd 2.2.5 kernel on cyrix 686 M2-MMX cpu In-Reply-To: Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.ORG On Mon, 13 Apr 1998, robert w hall wrote: > The point is that on my cyrix 686 M2-MMX the 2.2.5 kernel collapses on > startup on a general protection fault, but the 2.2.6 one comes up OK. (I > suppose I could now download the 2.2.2 kernel and see if that works!?) Interesting. > I now have the whole of 2.2.6 bin directory downloaded from the uk > mirror, but a nearly full disk, and have two questions - > > 1) do I expect many differences between the 2.2.5 and 2.2.6 binaries (ok > I'll do a diff, but if there are lots of differences I'd just not bother > - but if most of the /usr files are the same, or compatible, I'll prune > them out and let my other system still act as server -) Yes, you should, for the most part. The old binaries will probably work, although you should load on the new libs and the new ps/top and friends. > 2) with this in mind, why is the new kernel put at the end of the > distribution (at least it appears to be) so I have to download all 70+ > files in bin to get to it?? Got me. The release system is built by an automated process, the /kernel is probably at the tail end. I know that sysinstall does some interesting things with it though just before finishing up. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message