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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: where's patch-kit for 0.2.4?
Message-ID: <28unld$nu3@pdq.coe.montana.edu>
From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Date: 6 Oct 1993 15:19:09 GMT
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In article <9310052224.AA04967@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com>,
William F. Maton <646379@acadvm1.uottawa.ca> wrote:
>Stupid Question Time:
>
>   I have looked in the FAQ, but to no avail can I find the patch-kit 0.2.4.
>Does anyone know where this is or what the official site is, if any?

It is no longer official. :-)

>   I also just installed 386bsd-0.1 for the first (successful) time about
>a week ago and was wondering what I need to do to apply these patches?  Do
>I still need the previous patches, or can I skip right to the newest one?

The patchkit is now completely obsoleted by FreeBSD, available on
FreeBSD.cdrom.com.  Either you can completely re-install (sigh) FreeBSD
from scratch, or you can update from 386BSD->FreeBSD rather easily using
a set of scripts I've made to do that job.


Nate

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