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Subject: 386bsd to NetBSD: How easy, Good Idea?
Message-ID: <haley.737634899@husc.harvard.edu>
From: haley@scws5.harvard.edu (Elizabeth Haley)
Date: 17 May 93 10:34:59 GMT
Keywords: Switching 386bsd NetBSD
Summary: How easy would it be to switch from 386bsd to NetBSD?
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I am currently running a short stack of 386bsd, that is, just
the srcdist and bindist, no etcdist...
I am considering switching to NetBSD, but I have seen no patch-kit or
diffs. The prospect of a total reinstallation makes my fingers hurt...
I don't have a direct net connection with this machine... So it would
have to be either 2400 baud modem or sneaker-net between mine and a
machine that I don't really have legal access to...
If I elect to stick with 386bsd I still need to do this with 20 disks
or so, and then some sort of patchkit, but I think I like that better
than maybe 35-40 disks and no patch-kit...
I just don't know... Is there a patch-kit between 386bsd and NetBSD,
or just a Kit to go from 386bsd + pk0.2.[23] to NetBSD?
Or anything...
(This is all severely shadowed by the vaguely impending GNU hurd, that
I am pretty interested in...)
hmmm...
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