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From: nate@bsd.coe.montana.edu (Nate Williams)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: 386BSD Patchkit 0.2.4 Where ?
Date: 6 Mar 1994 00:26:54 GMT
Organization: Montana State University, Bozeman  MT
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In article <762882039snz@helen.demon.co.uk>,
Ian Newham <ian@helen.demon.co.uk> wrote:
>After some time away from bsd, I've bought a bigger HDD and put 386bsd
>on it. I've got the patchkits up to 0.2.3 but I only know of one ftp
>site with 0.2.4 and thats in Australia - and apparently their connection
>is about "saturated". Any one out there know where I can ftp 0.2.4
>closer to or preferably in the U.K. ? The U.K. archie only turned up
>somewhere in Taiwan (I think?) but that seems to time out on me.

I didn't know that there was any site with the 0.2.4 patchkit, since the
*ONLY* site that had it for awhile was my box, which deleted it months
ago after FreeBSD 1.0 was released.

>I know I should go for Free/NetBSD but I only have Dial-Up access so
>ftp'ing all that would be unrealistic and since I paid for 386BSD 0.1
>I'm a bit loathed to dump it

Getting the 0.2.4 patchkit is also a big chore.  Wait a couple more
weeks and get FreeBSD 1.1 and you will not be unhappy.  If you're really
interested you can upgrade from 386BSD -> FreeBSD with the upgrade
scripts I created for that purpose.  Also, 386bsd in any form is
extremely unstable compared to any version of FreeBSD.

However, it will still require downloading the new release.


Nate
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