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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!bunyip.cc.uq.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!newsrelay.iastate.edu!news.iastate.edu!ponderous.cc.iastate.edu!michaelv From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: Do NetBSD-current Binaries exist somewhere? Date: 20 Jan 94 23:15:35 GMT Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa Lines: 49 Message-ID: <michaelv.759107735@ponderous.cc.iastate.edu> References: <2hm0fc$8v0@news.kth.se> NNTP-Posting-Host: ponderous.cc.iastate.edu Keywords: NetBSD, Binary In <2hm0fc$8v0@news.kth.se> d88-jwn@dront.nada.kth.se (Johan Wåhlin) writes: >Hi all; > How do one go about getting the current version of NetBSD. I would >really like have it all without the hassle of compiling. Can I get it >from the reference site in Germany? > If no binary version is available, would someone post (I do believe >others are interested also) a short story on how you go about >compiling it all. I suppose the order would be something like: lib, >include, gcc, ld, compiler-what-not, lib again, the rest. Still I >would like some comments (again, if no binaries are available). NetBSD-current binaries are available from ftp.iastate.edu in /pub/netbsd/NetBSD-current/binaries/. I have /bin /sbin /usr/bin /usr/sbin /usr/libexec and /usr/lib there, both extracted and in a big tarball. I would recommend not using the extracted files unless you just need one specific file, as the transfer from netbsd nfs -> ultrix -> afs -> ftp causes their permissions to get mangled (they'll still work ok, but you'll have to set ownership and permissions on them individually if you get them individually in extracted form). You will need to get one of the current source tar files (from somewhere else -- these are only the compiled binaries) and do a make install in /usr/src/share/mk and /usr/src/include at least if you want current compiles to work. You'll probably also want to take a very close at the current version of files in /usr/src/etc and see if some of your files in /etc should be upgraded. The current binary tarball will have all the current compilers and linkers and stuff that you'll need, as well as the other binaries and libraries. Note that the kernel that I have supplied on this site is my kernel, is configured for wd and BusLogic scsi drivers, plus a WD80x3 ether card, so I'm making no promises it'll work for you. I will not make custom kernels for people, so don't ask. Everything else there should work just fine. Please understand all this stuff comes without guarantees and with no support -- I'm only providing it to help users move up to current, and only as long as it doesn't cause me extra work. Also, if you're going to run current, you should subscribe to the current-users list by sending mail to majordomo@sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu. Good luck! -- ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Michael L. VanLoon Project Vincent Systems Staff michaelv@iastate.edu Iowa State University Computation Center ------------------------------------------------------------------------------