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Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!metro!frost!callum
From: callum@frost.bain.oz.au (Callum Gibson)
Subject: Compiling NetBSD from 386bsd platform?
Message-ID: <1993Oct15.053347.22093@frost.bain.oz.au>
Summary: upgrading to NetBSD from 386bsd using the source (Luke).
Keywords: NetBSD, compile, upgrade
Organization: Bain & Company
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Date: Fri, 15 Oct 1993 05:33:47 GMT
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I currently have 386bsd 0.1 (0.2.3pk) running.  If I grab all the source
files for NetBSD-current (I have enough disk), is there any reason I can't
just compile everything there, install it (maybe while booted from floppy
so as to avoid busy text files and nasty clobbering) and voila be running
NetBSD?  Do I have to change some devices while I'm at it?  I already have
the partition table set up the way I want it so I'm not keen to go through
the whole installation from scratch.  Or am I better off getting one of the
binary distributions instead? (I do want the source, anyway.)

(BTW, I have a SCSI disk so I don't anticipate any problems with NetBSD like
others have been having with IDE.)

Pointers to docs or personal experiences related (not too personal, mind
you :-) are gratefully accepted.

regards,
    Callum
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Callum Gibson                                       callum@frost.bain.oz.au
Fixed Income Division, DB Bain & Co.                          61 2 258 1620