Date: Thu, 23 Jul 1998 14:57:43 +0100 From: nik@iii.co.uk To: David Nunn <davidn@uk.aiesec.org> Cc: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: 2.2.6 kernel with 2.2.5 system? Message-ID: <19980723145742.11204@iii.co.uk> In-Reply-To: <3.0.1.32.19980723121625.006a1cc8@192.168.29.10>; from David Nunn on Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 12:16:25PM %2B0100 References: <3.0.1.32.19980723121625.006a1cc8@192.168.29.10>
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On Thu, Jul 23, 1998 at 12:16:25PM +0100, David Nunn wrote: > I know this is a astrange request, but can I use a 2.2.6 kernel ona 2.2.5 > system? Technically yes, in practice, no. The chance of subtle incompatibilities between the kernel and userland code is too great. > The original sysadmin never installed the sources for the kernel, and so I > am stuck with a 2.2.5 system and 2.2.6 kernel sources. Upgrading is not an > option since the office cannot afford that amount of downtime on this, the > only connection to the internet they have. > > Can anyone help? (Please CC any replies to me personally) I see (by your phone number) that you're in London. A tar'd and gzip'd copy of src/sys from 2.2.5 is a shade over 4MB in size. I can put that up for FTP for you if you like, or if you want to send me a Zip disk I can put it on that and send it back. Or that's 3 1.44MB floppy disks if you'd prefer. Or depending on your proxmity to the Strand, I could drop them in one lunch time. N -- Work: nik@iii.co.uk | FreeBSD + Perl + Apache Rest: nik@nothing-going-on.demon.co.uk | Remind me again why we need Play: nik@freebsd.org | Microsoft? To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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