On Wed, Dec 11, 2002 at 05:08:46PM -0800, Steve Kargl wrote: > 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.
Replace the 'cd %D/dev; sh MAKEDEV jail' with 'mount -t devfs / $D/dev' Kris
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