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From: songerwa@cs.curtin.edu.au (Mazahir Songerwala)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Upgrading NetBSD-0.9 to NetBSD-Current
Date: 8 Feb 94 11:06:18 GMT
Organization: Curtin University of Technology
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Message-ID: <songerwa.760705578@marsh>
NNTP-Posting-Host: decimus.cs.curtin.edu.au

Hey there,

     I have recently installd NetBSD-0.9 on my PC and am pretty
impressed at the performance. However, I have read on USENET that
NetBSD-current is better and fixes bugs which were present in
NetBSD-0.9. My question therefore is whether there is an easy way on
upgrading from NetBSD-0.9 to NetBSD-current. I have checked on the
various anon ftp sites for NetBSD-current and have found that most
archives store gzip versions of the various directories in the
filesystem hierarchy. Therefore my question is that is there an
upgrade script or mechanism I can use to upgrade to NetBSD-current,
if I mount the NetBSD-current stuff off my machine (my disk space is
getting very low, but I can get mount access to a larger disk).
It took me a while to get NetBSD-0.9 set up properly, so I am looking
for minimal pain in setting up NetBSD-current. I am also running
XFree86-2.0, and was wondering whether this version supported
NetBSD-current. If anyone can help me, it would be greatly appreciated. 
Regards,
Maz 
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