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From: azcb0@ccc.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks)
Subject: Re: -current w/ps problem
Message-ID: <1995Jun30.140620.8270@ccc.amdahl.com>
Reply-To: azcb0@JUTS.ccc.amdahl.com (Alistair G. Crooks)
Organization: Amdahl Corporation, Sunnyvale CA
References: <3spq4e$f58@solaris.cc.vt.edu> <3spv9m$o1o@Mars.mcs.com> <3srku5$fli@ussenterprise.ufp.org>
Date: Fri, 30 Jun 1995 14:06:20 GMT
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In article <3srku5$fli@ussenterprise.ufp.org> bicknell@ufp.org writes:
>
>--- Script to build all...

Firstly, this isn't a script, unless you've got a very smart command
interpreter that understands "# copy new kernel to /, and boot off it"
and does the right thing.

Secondly, the instructions are well out of date - the latest ones are
to be found on

	ftp://charon.amdahl.com/pub/agc/NetBSD-1.0-to-1.0a-instructions

Thirdly, if you're following -current, get hitched up to the
current-users mailing list - to do this, send a message to
"majordomo@mail.netbsd.org" with a body part of "subscribe current-users".
If you don't read the articles on the mailing list, then you'll miss
important information, like how to compile -current and get it to run,
or like what parts of the instructions you posted were out of date.
(e.g.  If you try to build a -current system with sources from May or
later with these instructions, you'll end up with binaries that will
dump core every time they're run, due to changes in the rtld.  Further
changes have taken place since then).

Fourthly, there are binary snapshots for the i386 port (and others)
from May 15th 1995, so why do you want to do a source upgrade?

Cheers,
Alistair [the author of the instructions in the first place]
--
Alistair G. Crooks (agc@uts.amdahl.com)			   +44 125 234 6377
Amdahl European HQ, Dogmersfield Park, Hartley Wintney, Hants RG27 8TE, UK.
[These are only my opinions, and certainly not those of Amdahl Corporation]