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From: cgd@gaia.CS.Berkeley.EDU (Chris G. Demetriou)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.misc
Subject: Re: So you say you want an interim release of 386bsd? (What to do?)
Date: 20 Apr 93 12:49:27
Organization: Kernel Hackers 'r' Us
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In-reply-to: burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil's message of 20 Apr 1993 10:17:46 -0500
In article <1r146qINNmbn@hrd769.brooks.af.mil> burgess@hrd769.brooks.af.mil (Dave Burgess) writes:
=>I have the patched 386bsd source tree, albeit not necessarily in the Netbsd
=>structure. IN addition, I have several 'server' processes, including an
=>enterprise wide News Server that I can't just 'dump' to load a new version of
=>an operating system. While tape backups are all well and good; seriously,
=>where do I go from here. Are the underlying disk structures of the 'old'
=>386bsd still there? Has the partition numbering scheme for DOS fdisk
=>changed? Are there other, more insidious questions that need asked that I
=>don't dare utter?
basically, the system as it is now is 386bsd 0.1 + patches,
plus improvements. to the best of my knowledge
"the gang" and i introduced no incompatibilities.
if you'd like to install the new stuff on top of what you've got,
dump your system, get a the binary/source distributions,
and
cat distname.??? | gunzip | (cd / ; tar xvf - )
or wherever.
you can do the same to get the source tree, and build the sources
into binaries, then install them into the right place when you
feel up to it...
=>I suspect, and hope (fervently hope), that by keeping up with the patchkit,
=>I am actually in a position to be able to change the name on what I already
=>have and press on from there. I can move stuff around, and change source
=>directory names, but restarting from scratch is definitely out of the
=>question.
the patchkit is not going to converge on NetBSD, if i'm not mistaken...
=>Also, what is to become of the FAQ? We have made serious progress on creating
=>a new FAQ (most everyone will see the first three or four sections of it on
=>Wednesday) and need to keep moving. Many of the questions/answer will
=>continue to apply to both the old 386bsd (v0.1) and the new NetBSD for
=>a while.
true.
=>The worried maintainer of somebody's FAQ, but not just sure whose!?!?
whosever you want... probably 386BSD's, if you plan to keep it in sync with
0.2 when it comes out...
--
Chris G. Demetriou cgd@cs.berkeley.edu
"386bsd as depth first search: whenever you go to fix something you
find that 3 more things are actually broken." -- Adam Glass