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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!foxhound.dsto.gov.au!fang.dsto.gov.au!yoyo.aarnet.edu.au!news.adelaide.edu.au!news.cs.su.oz.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!vixen.cso.uiuc.edu!uxa.cso.uiuc.edu!rkb55989 From: rkb55989@uxa.cso.uiuc.edu (Rafal Boni) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions Subject: Re: [NetBSD-current] How to install it? Date: 9 May 1994 00:01:51 GMT Organization: University of Illinois at Urbana Lines: 46 Message-ID: <2qjuhf$rv4@vixen.cso.uiuc.edu> References: <199405021438.LAA02481@rubi.fee.unicamp.br> <MIKE.LONG.94May2201828@cthulhu.analog.com> <2qi402$d1n@agate.berkeley.edu> NNTP-Posting-Host: uxa.cso.uiuc.edu alanp@cory.EECS.Berkeley.EDU (Alan Pearson) writes: [Mike Long's comments deleted] [I'm now running -current and have been since the beginning of March... I upgraded from 0.8 then, --rafal ] >I just tried to go up to the -current stuff from 0.8 (I am a bit behind, >I admit), and it didn't fly. I was able to install all of the binaries >successfully, and boot the new kernel. I even recompiled my kernel >because I have a com3 serial port on IRQ5, which is an oddity, but the >kernel worked. I had 2 major problems that forced me to go back to 0.8. >First, many of the programs did not recognize spwd.db's format. I tried >quite a bit of stuff to solve this, like re-running vipw, and pwd_mkdb. >I made sure, then double-sure that I had a -current pwd_mkdb, but I >could not fix the spwd.db file so that it worked properly. This is the nasty one... what I did was start over with the passwd files supplied on the 0.9 floppies [I believe..]. Since I only had 10 or so users, it wasn't hard to add them back.. >Second, the com ports did not work with tip. There was a bit of code >in comopen() in i386/isa/com.c (i think), that checked for carrier detect, >or some sort of thing like that. This code looped indefinitely waiting >to open the com port so that tip hung (until the alarm() saved it). >This was the biggest problem, since I *NEED* my slip connection to the >net in order to live. So... out came the backups and I'm on 0.8 again. >sigh :-< There is now a "ttyflags" utility that sets things like clocal on any tty devices at bootup [if you place in in your rc]. This will allow you to dial out once again, and you'll now also have PPP. >alan >-- >alan pearson >alanp@cory.eecs.berkeley.edu UC Berkeley EECS --rafal /--------------------------------------------------------------------------\ |"Blessed are the meek, for they shall inherit | Rafal Boni | | 15% of the earth, which is 100% more than they | r-boni@uiuc.edu | | have now..." -Cartoon caption in New Yorker | My opinions, not UIUC's | \--------------------------------------------------------------------------/