Return to BSD News archive
Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!constellation!convex!news.oc.com!news.unt.edu!cs.utexas.edu!swrinde!news.uh.edu!moocow.cs.uh.edu!wjin
From: wjin@moocow.cs.uh.edu (Woody Jin)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD 0.9 -> current help sought
Date: 25 May 1994 17:30:36 GMT
Organization: Dept. of Computer Science, University of Houston, Main Campus
Lines: 60
Sender: wjin@cs.uh.edu
Message-ID: <2s01vs$o1b@masala.cc.uh.edu>
References: <2rrv8p$ce4@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>
Reply-To: wjin@cs.uh.edu
NNTP-Posting-Host: moocow.cs.uh.edu
In article <2rrv8p$ce4@charm.magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu>,
John M Crawford <craw4d@magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu> wrote:
>I'm trying to get my i386 machine running NetBSD-current using
>the bsd.faq notes (3.1.7: Marcwan description of how to) with
>little success. The description from the FAQ appears incomplete
>and out of date. Could someone provide/point me to better instructions?
If you are a new user and want to install the most current NetBSD,
you need to do the following five steps.
1) Installing the core NetBSD0.9:
Install NetBSD 0.9 using only 3 diskettes (ie. do not install complete
binary distributions)
2) Moving core binaries and /etc files to other directories:
mkdir /obin (for example)
cp /sbin/* /obin
cp /bin/* /obin # in fact, only some files need to be copied
cp /usr/bin/* /obin
PATH=/obin
rm -rf /sbin /bin /usr/bin
mv /etc /oetc
3) Installng the Current NetBSD binaries:
# get the binaries from arch/i386 directory
umask 022
gzip -dc bin.tar.gz | (cd /; tar xvf - )
.... etc.
4) Restoring the old /etc files and creating new dev files:
cp /oetc/* /etc
# Setting up the root passwd at this time would be a good idea.
cd /dev
./MAKEDEV all # or at least, vga
Reboot
5) Configuring the systems:
You still need to configure networks, ...etc. by hand
(Of course by hand. You don't use your feet for typing :) )
> .....
>My machine does a core dump during make Suff_FindDeps. Some
>directories described in the steps do not exist... such as
>/usr/src/gnu/usr.bin/gcc. I am about to give up on NetBSD.
I understand your situations....
>I'm trying to get -current going do I can run XFree86, which
>wants to have shared libraries available. (No ld.so).
>I'd appreciate some helpful hints here.
Sorry for not so realistic help, but you need to get the
whole X11 source code distribution and compile.
>
>John
Woody