From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 24 08:59:59 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id IAA06825 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:59:59 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gdi.uoregon.edu (cisco-ts14-line1.uoregon.edu [128.223.150.167]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id IAA06812 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:59:54 -0700 (PDT) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.5/8.8.5) with SMTP id IAA01376; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:59:44 -0700 (PDT) Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 08:59:44 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White X-Sender: dwhite@localhost Reply-To: Doug White To: Brian Bartholomew cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does freebsd tolerate kernel upgrades well? In-Reply-To: <199707232135.RAA00831@auntiem.wv.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk On Wed, 23 Jul 1997, Brian Bartholomew wrote: > [ I am not on this mailing list. Please respond to me and I'll summarize. ] > > I have a machine running 2.1.5-RELEASE. I want to run the latest > stable kernel to get the linux emulator to run the Legato Networker > backup program, and use the Intel 100 Mbit ethernet card driver (fxp). > > Does freebsd tolerate a kernel upgrade well like linux does, or must I > reinstall the whole box from a consistant release? Since you're crossing branches (2.1->2.2), that makes this more difficult. If you just upgrade your kernel, ps/top/pstat/related kernel-specific utilities will all cease functioning. You could grab the source for these and rebuild them. Plus, you'll need to get the linux LKM source for 2.2 and rebuild the LKM. Doug White | University of Oregon Internet: dwhite@resnet.uoregon.edu | Residence Networking Assistant http://gladstone.uoregon.edu/~dwhite | Computer Science Major Spam routed to /dev/null by Procmail | Death to Cyberpromo