From owner-freebsd-questions Tue May 5 16:00:43 1998 Return-Path: Received: (from majordom@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.8/8.8.8) id QAA02906 for freebsd-questions-outgoing; Tue, 5 May 1998 16:00:43 -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 QAA02849 for ; Tue, 5 May 1998 16:00:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Received: from localhost (dwhite@localhost) by gdi.uoregon.edu (8.8.7/8.8.8) with SMTP id QAA04892; Tue, 5 May 1998 16:00:19 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dwhite@gdi.uoregon.edu) Date: Tue, 5 May 1998 16:00:18 -0700 (PDT) From: Doug White Reply-To: Doug White To: "Jason C. Wells" cc: FreeBSD-questions Subject: Re: Mix and match RELEASES 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 Tue, 5 May 1998, Jason C. Wells wrote: > I just got a new SCSI disk. > > I put 2.2.6 on the SCSI. I have 2.2.5 on my old IDE. > > I cannot boot from the SCSI but I can mount it. I keep my root partition > on the IDE with version 2.2.5 kernel and binaries. All other partitions > are on the SCSI with 2.2.6 binaries. > > Am I flirting with disaster by mixing and matching my versions? I haven't > noticed any troubles yet. What problems might I incur? Just don't get the kernels and userlands mixed up or you could be in for a real treat. 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