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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!news.Hawaii.Edu!ames!elroy.jpl.nasa.gov!swrinde!cs.utexas.edu!uunet!psinntp!psinntp!nntpxfer.psi.com!brian From: brian@sun1.claremont.com (Brian Childs) Subject: Re: where's patch-kit for 0.2.4? In-Reply-To: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu's message of 6 Oct 1993 15: 19:09 GMT Message-ID: <BRIAN.93Oct9125111@sun1.claremont.com> Sender: news@nntpxfer.psi.com Nntp-Posting-Host: sun1.claremont.com Organization: Claremont Systems Inc. References: <9310052224.AA04967@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com> <28unld$nu3@pdq.coe.montana.edu> Date: Sat, 9 Oct 1993 17:51:11 GMT Lines: 30 In article <28unld$nu3@pdq.coe.montana.edu> nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams) writes: >In article <9310052224.AA04967@inet-gw-1.pa.dec.com>, >William F. Maton <646379@acadvm1.uottawa.ca> wrote: >>Stupid Question Time: >> >> I have looked in the FAQ, but to no avail can I find the patch-kit 0.2.4. >>Does anyone know where this is or what the official site is, if any? > >It is no longer official. :-) > >> I also just installed 386bsd-0.1 for the first (successful) time about >>a week ago and was wondering what I need to do to apply these patches? Do >>I still need the previous patches, or can I skip right to the newest one? > >The patchkit is now completely obsoleted by FreeBSD, available on >FreeBSD.cdrom.com. Either you can completely re-install (sigh) FreeBSD >from scratch, or you can update from 386BSD->FreeBSD rather easily using >a set of scripts I've made to do that job. Does anyone know where these scripts can be found? What patchlevel do you have to be at for the scripts to work? Thanks in advance, Brian -- *...imagine how little used calculus would have been if a court had decided that no one could study, use or do research on it without paying a royalty to Newton's designated heirs.* -- The Independent, October 5, 1992