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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and out of date.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