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From: mycroft@duality.gnu.ai.mit.edu (Charles Hannum)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: [NetBSD] Is it ok to install -current kernel?
Date: 18 Feb 1994 00:47:44 GMT
Organization: MIT Artificial Intelligence Lab
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In-reply-to: andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de's message of 16 Feb 1994 16:02:09 GMT


In article <2jtg21$4jc@darum.uni-mannheim.de>
andrew@wipux2.wifo.uni-mannheim.de (Andrew Wheadon) writes:

   Brad Colbert <bcolbert@rucs2.sunlab.cs.runet.edu> wrote:
   >      1)  I would like a -current kernel (and source etc.)
   >      2)  I would LOVE shared libs (how do I go about this?)
   >      3)  Uhhh.... well you get the point

   I think you will need to install new boot-blocks before you install
   a new kernel (to enable booting larger kernels) [...]

Actually, the 0.9 boot block should work okay, and is probably better
if you're not yet sure that you want to switch to -current.

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- Charles Hannum
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