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From: steve@sccsi.com (Steve Nuchia)
Subject: NetBSD from scratch?
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Date: Fri, 9 Jul 1993 00:36:54 GMT
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I just spent most of the evening reloading NetBSD and trying to
figure out how to sync up with the latest blessed (blest?) release.

I groped for a FAQ but didn't see what I needed.

What I tried doing was downloading the NetBSD-0.8 distribution
files and applying the incremental patch sets.  But the stuff
in NetBSD-0.8 on sun-lamp doesn't seem to correspond precisely
to any of the official patch levels.  It appears to be somewhere
near 0.2.2, but not exactly.

Am I taking the wrong approach?  Am I working toward the
wrong goal?  Can someone please give me a clue?

Thanks.
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Steve Nuchia      South Coast Computing Services, Inc.      (713) 661-3301
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