Date: Wed, 14 Jul 2004 18:21:06 -0700 From: Julian Elischer <julian@elischer.org> To: John Baldwin <jhb@FreeBSD.org> Cc: Garance A Drosihn <drosih@rpi.edu> Subject: Re: CVSUP and 5.2.1 RELEASE Message-ID: <40F5DC02.1040906@elischer.org> In-Reply-To: <200407142033.53221.jhb@FreeBSD.org> References: <26075.1089753893@critter.freebsd.dk> <p06110426bd1b6a957743@[128.113.24.47]> <40F5CDCC.8050209@elischer.org> <200407142033.53221.jhb@FreeBSD.org>
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John Baldwin wrote: >On Wednesday 14 July 2004 08:20 pm, Julian Elischer wrote: > > >>Garance A Drosihn wrote: >> >> >>>You might want to build a jail, for instance, which *looks* >>>like it is FreeBSD 3.x to the user, even though your machine >>>is really running the kernel from FreeBSD 4.10. This is very >>>useful for some kinds of testing, for instance. (although for >>>testing, this is usually done as a plain 'chroot' environment, >>>and not a full-blown jail...). >>> >>> >>I have a jail of FreeBSD 1.1 >> >>you need one change in teh kernel to make it work properly >>(1.1 can't cope with PIDs being > 65535 as they now are) >>and a new copy of ps and netstat (and the other usual suspects) are >>required. >> >>but "make buildworld" REALLY flies :-) >> >> > >I thought make buildworld didn't come in to existence until 2.2.5? > true.. it's "make world" that flies but my fingers finished it off from habit. > > >
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