Date: Wed, 11 Dec 2002 17:08:46 -0800 From: Steve Kargl <sgk@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> To: Andrew Thompson <andy@fud.org.nz> Cc: freebsd-current@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Jailing a 4.7 environment on 5.0? Message-ID: <20021212010846.GA77330@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> In-Reply-To: <02Dec12.135649nzdt.119048@homer.fire.org.nz> References: <20021212001931.GA76871@troutmask.apl.washington.edu> <20021212005216.GA87536@rot13.obsecurity.org> <02Dec12.135649nzdt.119048@homer.fire.org.nz>
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On Thu, Dec 12, 2002 at 01:56:40PM +1300, Andrew Thompson wrote: > On Thu, 2002-12-12 at 13:52, Kris Kennaway wrote: > > On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 04:19:31PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > > > Is is possible to set up a jail that contains 4.7 on > > > a 5.0 system? > > > > Yes. > > But doesnt a jail share the same kernel? (I have never set one up so I > dont know what I am talking about :) > Yes, it does use the same kernel. If you read the jail(8) man page, it discusses setting up a jail on a 4.x system. The first section contains This example shows how to setup a jail directory tree containing an entire FreeBSD distribution: D=/here/is/the/jail cd /usr/src mkdir -p $D make world DESTDIR=$D cd etc make distribution DESTDIR=$D cd $D/dev sh MAKEDEV jail cd $D ln -sf dev/null kernel Clearly, this doesn't work on a 5.0 system if you want to set up a 4.7 jail. -- Steve To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-current" in the body of the message
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