Subject: Re: Upgrade 1.4-1.5
To: Grzegorz 'Silk' Sobanski <silk@poznan.telbank.pl>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 12/12/2001 22:00:26
On Wed, Dec 12, 2001 at 06:21:48PM +0100, Grzegorz 'Silk' Sobanski wrote:
> Hello all,
> 
> I'm still running netbsd 1.4.2, and i decided it's eventually time
> to switch to 1.5.
> So i have question - will just changing kernel be enough ?
> Or need I upgrade some programs too? (or if not, maybe it's really
> recommended to do so? )

A 1.5 kernel should be able to run 1.4 userland. However, all kmem
groverloers (ps, top, netstat, systat, etc ...) will break.

I would recommmend to do a complete upgrade.

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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