From owner-freebsd-questions Sun Jun 18 18:38:27 1995 Return-Path: questions-owner Received: (from majordom@localhost) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) id SAA14943 for questions-outgoing; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 18:38:27 -0700 Received: from genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au [129.127.96.120]) by freefall.cdrom.com (8.6.10/8.6.6) with ESMTP id SAA14925 for ; Sun, 18 Jun 1995 18:38:08 -0700 Received: from msmith@localhost by genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au (8.6.9/8.6.9) id LAA19200; Mon, 19 Jun 1995 11:03:23 +0930 From: Michael Smith Message-Id: <199506190133.LAA19200@genesis.atrad.adelaide.edu.au> Subject: Re: bringing up freebsd To: tom@uniserve.com (Tom Samplonius) Date: Mon, 19 Jun 1995 11:03:23 +0930 (CST) Cc: msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au, questions@freebsd.org, leisner@sdsp.mc.xerox.com In-Reply-To: from "Tom Samplonius" at Jun 18, 95 12:17:07 pm Content-Type: text Content-Length: 1135 Sender: questions-owner@freebsd.org Precedence: bulk Tom Samplonius stands accused of saying: > On Sun, 18 Jun 1995, Michael Smith wrote: > > > 2.0R binaries will not work with 2.0.5R kernel. > > > > This is misleading. In the context of the original question ("can I > > run a 2.0.5 kernel on top of a 2.0R system"), it's correct, as much > > changed between 2.0 and 2.0.5, but one certainly _can_ run 2.0 binaries > > under 2.0.5 (hence the compat20 package). > > As long as you don't mind a system utils dumping core. As an example, > swapinfo from a 4-12 snapshot will core dump on a 2.0.5R system. And what I wrote was misleading as well 8) To run a 2.0.5 kernel you want 2.0.5 system binaries to work with it, but most of the user-land programs that work under 2.0 work under 2.0.5. > Tom -- ]] Mike Smith, Software Engineer msmith@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] Genesis Software genesis@atrad.adelaide.edu.au [[ ]] High-speed data acquisition and [[ ]] realtime instrument control (ph/fax) +61-8-267-3039 [[ ]] My car has "demand start" - Terry Lambert [[