From owner-freebsd-questions Thu Jul 24 01:13:45 1997 Return-Path: Received: (from root@localhost) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) id BAA16816 for questions-outgoing; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 01:13:45 -0700 (PDT) Received: from gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (gatekeeper.barcode.co.il [192.116.93.17]) by hub.freebsd.org (8.8.5/8.8.5) with ESMTP id BAA16811 for ; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 01:13:40 -0700 (PDT) Received: (from smap@localhost) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il (8.8.5/8.6.12) id LAA13740; Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:14:07 +0300 (IDT) X-Authentication-Warning: gatekeeper.barcode.co.il: smap set sender to using -f Received: from localhost.barcode.co.il(127.0.0.1) by gatekeeper.barcode.co.il via smap (V1.3) id sma013737; Thu Jul 24 11:13:49 1997 Message-ID: <33D70E53.2959@barcode.co.il> Date: Thu, 24 Jul 1997 11:12:03 +0300 From: Nadav Eiron X-Mailer: Mozilla 3.0 (X11; I; SunOS 5.5 sun4m) MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Brian Bartholomew CC: freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Does freebsd tolerate kernel upgrades well? References: <199707232135.RAA00831@auntiem.wv.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: owner-freebsd-questions@FreeBSD.ORG X-Loop: FreeBSD.org Precedence: bulk Brian Bartholomew wrote: > > [ I am not on this mailing list. Please respond to me and I'll summarize. ] > > I have a machine running 2.1.5-RELEASE. I want to run the latest > stable kernel to get the linux emulator to run the Legato Networker > backup program, and use the Intel 100 Mbit ethernet card driver (fxp). > > Does freebsd tolerate a kernel upgrade well like linux does, or must I > reinstall the whole box from a consistant release? You better do a complete upgrade. There's no need to reinstall, you can simply upgrade, and it's pretty painless. The two main options being: 1. Choose the upgrade option on the installation disk of the version you want to upgrade to. 2. Use CVSup and upgrade your sources (requires full source tree, but lets you fetch any version you like). See the tutorials on the web site for details. If you'll upgrade just the kernel you'll probably end up with the same type of problems you have with Linux when you do that - you'll have utilities that won't work, libraries that won't match, etc. > > Another member of the League for Programming Freedom (LPF) www.lpf.org > ------------------------------------------------------------------------------- > Brian Bartholomew - bb@wv.com - www.wv.com - Working Version, Cambridge, MA Nadav