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From: rmk@rmkhome.com (Rick Kelly)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Upgrading to NetBSD-1.2-SNAPSHOT?
Date: 24 Sep 1996 02:37:41 GMT
Organization: The Man With Ten Cats
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Paul Civati (paul@xciv.org) wrote:
: 1.2 should be out RSN, well I'm waiting patiently, or not as the case may
: be because I want to install a couple of sun4m machines. ;)
: The snapshots are ok, but if you want to build a new kernel you have to sup
: the latest source and rebuild the whole source tree.
It's not that bad. I upgraded NetBSD/Sun3 from 1.1 to 1.2-beta using the
manual upgrade method. I pulled down the source tarballs and built a
1.2 kernel which runs really well, and I'm now building the source tree.
--
Rick Kelly rmk@seahag.rmkhome.com rmk@rmkhome.com
http://tencats.rmkhome.com