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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA1211 ; Tue, 23 Feb 93 14:30:24 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!spool.mu.edu!howland.reston.ans.net!zaphod.mps.ohio-state.edu!saimiri.primate.wisc.edu!usenet.coe.montana.edu!gemini.oscs.montana.edu!osynw From: osynw@gemini.oscs.montana.edu (Nathan Williams) Subject: [386bsd] ANNOUNCE: PATCHKIT-0.2.1 RELEASED Message-ID: <1993Feb13.235657.1686@coe.montana.edu> Summary: Cleanup, bugfixes in kit Keywords: nn Sender: usenet@coe.montana.edu (USENET News System) Organization: Montana State University References: <JKH.93Feb13000929@whisker.lotus.ie> <1993Feb13.234302.654@coe.montana.edu> Date: Sat, 13 Feb 1993 23:56:57 GMT Lines: 40 Available now on ref.tfs.com:~ftp/usr/src/patchkit-latest/ Soon to be available on agate.berkeley.edu:/pub/386BSD/386bsd-0.1/unofficial/patch-kit This version is a cleaned up version of the 0.2 kit. The only additions being a patch Rich Murphey made for the BELL to work in X, and a couple of patches Julian created to make adding new devices drivers easier. However, as Jordan stated in an earlier posting, this version is now the "official" version. I've tested this one a bit more than the others, and this one should install/de-install all patches with no problems. Also, all problems where the patches patched files they shouldn't have (patch00061) have been fixed. Please get this version and install it. Along with the updates to the patchkit, I created an unstripped kernel which contains X support for those people who can't compile their own. After using the bootable patchkit disks, you can copy this kernel into your root partition, and all of those errors on bootup should go away. Unfortunately, due to lack of time and other committments, I wasn't able to add some patches I'd like to this version (Neosoft patches, NFS access patch), and it requires that you back out 9 patches, and then install replacement versions of them. It is pretty easy, and I've explained things fairly weell in the README's. Before doing anything, please read the README's in the patch-kit directory. Hopefully, this release will clean up all the bugs in the 'patch-kit'. (Jordan's the man to talk to about 386BSD bugs now) Thanks for your patience, Nate -- osynw@terra.oscs.montana.edu | Still trying to find a good reason for nate@cs.montana.edu | these 'computer' things. Personally, home #: (406) 586-0579 | I don't think they'll catch on - Don H.