From owner-freebsd-questions Fri Aug 8 09:11:24 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id JAA26331 for questions-outgoing; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:11:24 -0700 (PDT) Received: from mail.Contrib.Com (mail.Contrib.Com [194.77.12.8]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id JAA26318 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 09:11:13 -0700 (PDT) Received: from climax.thing.de (io.thing.de [193.203.176.161]) by mail.Contrib.Com (8.8.4/8.8.4) with ESMTP id SAA18091 for ; Fri, 8 Aug 1997 18:11:05 +0200 (MET DST) Message-ID: <33EB4518.FF3382CD@thing.de> Date: Fri, 08 Aug 1997 18:11:04 +0200 From: Ulf Schleth Reply-To: us@thing.de Organization: THE THING Berlin X-Mailer: Mozilla 4.01 [en] (Win95; I) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: quest. X-Priority: 3 (Normal) Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk hi i searched the faq but found no good answer. i am running freebsd 2.1.5 now & i have to upgrade. so i have 3 little questions: * is it better to compile only a new kernel or use the upgrade function on the new freebsd bootdisk? * where on your ftp server can i find the sources that i need to compile a new kernel???? * do i need additional software so that my old binaries run under the new kernel version??? it's urgent! many thanks for your answers!!! ulf schleth -- ulf schleth, bergstr. 21, D-10115 berlin, fon +49-30-28391180 fax +49-30-28391179, THE THING Berlin, http://www.thing.de mailto:ulf@thing.de