Date: Tue, 19 May 1998 13:56:58 +0200 (CEST) From: Søren Schmidt <sos@FreeBSD.ORG> To: julian@ivision.co.uk (Julian) Cc: sos@FreeBSD.ORG, randyk@ccsales.com, bob@wbs.net, toor@dyson.iquest.net, technical@wbs.net, freebsd-hardware@FreeBSD.ORG, julian@ivision.co.uk Subject: Re: 12.0 GB Quantum Bigfoot TX IDE seen as 8.4 GB Message-ID: <199805191156.NAA01981@sos.freebsd.dk> In-Reply-To: <E0ybktM-0000eN-00@stingray.ivision.co.uk> from Julian at "May 19, 98 12:49:12 pm"
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In reply to Julian who wrote:
>
> Err, forgive my ignorance here, but I installed 2.2.6-STABLE off the
> net a couple of days ago... that didn't seem to include the stuff
> needed. I attempted to download -current's kernel source, but it
> doesn't want to compile with my sys/i386/config/CONFIGFILE...
The support is ONLY in -current, there are NO plans to backport
it to -stable. You cannot simply run a -current kernel on a
-stable system, there are too many differences.
> What am I going to need to do in order to get to use the drive? I
> really would rather use it on a -STABLE system even if I then apply
> a patch to that (potentially rendering it less stable)
As said, this is -current material ONLY.
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Søren Schmidt (sos@FreeBSD.org) FreeBSD Core Team
Even more code to hack -- will it ever end
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