On Fri, Mar 16, 2007 at 04:38:38PM +0100, Luca Masini wrote: > Niclas Zeising wrote: > >Have a look in the handbook here: > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/kernelconfig.html > > > >and here: > >http://www.freebsd.org/doc/en_US.ISO8859-1/books/handbook/cutting-edge.html > > > >for instructions on how to rebuild/upgrade your kernel and system. > Will do! > :-P > > >Usually you have to upgrade userland along with your kernel or things > >will get out of sync and Bad Things(tm) will happen. > I don't want to upgrade the current system. > I only need to be able to compile a reference GENERIC of 7-CURRENT > in a user subdirectory.
Running a 7.x kernel on a 6.x system is unsupported. You can do it, but some things won't work and it's for "advanced users only". A good alternative might be for you to run 7.0 under qemu. Kris _______________________________________________ freebsd-questions@freebsd.org mailing list http://lists.freebsd.org/mailman/listinfo/freebsd-questions To unsubscribe, send any mail to "[EMAIL PROTECTED]"