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Received: by minnie.vk1xwt.ampr.org with NNTP id AA5560 ; Fri, 01 Jan 93 01:49:04 EST Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd Path: sserve!manuel.anu.edu.au!munnari.oz.au!uunet!nwnexus!antoni From: antoni@halcyon.com (Toni Moreno) Subject: Re: [386bsd] Help finding an up-to-date kernel Message-ID: <1992Dec26.181623.23786@nwnexus.WA.COM> Sender: sso@nwnexus.WA.COM (System Security Officer) Organization: The 23:00 News and Mail Service +1 206 382 MAIL (382-6245) X-Newsreader: Tin 1.1 PL4 References: <17702@umd5.umd.edu> Date: Sat, 26 Dec 1992 18:16:23 GMT Lines: 41 mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz) writes: : In article <lje9qaINN4hs@news.bbn.com> blackett@bbn.com (Kent Blackett) writes: : > : >I'm really new to 386bsd, and I got to where I am by ftp'ing the distribution : >files at work, then ftp'ing them to a Mac at work, then writing DOS-format : >floppies on the Mac, then taking the floppies home to the PC. : > : : Here's an alternative you can consider. (I did this for my system.) : : Carry the whole machine in to work and "borrow" an IP address for long : enough to ftp in the distribution. You need an ethernet board, of course, : but if you can borrow one of them too, you're in good shape. : : The install disk comes with the ftp client, which you can use to get : the distribution over the net. Be warned-- the kernel on the install : disk has some debugging left on in the network code, so it will be : pretty slow to do the transfer. It took me several hours to get the : whole bin01, src01, and etc01 distributions over, but I wasn't paying : attention to it either, so I don't know how long it was waiting for me. : Mostly, I would look at it once in a while and and see : "startstartstartstartstartstartstart" moving across the screen. : : It happens that there was an ethernet board I could borrow, but before I : knew that would be the case, I considered buying one for occasions like : this. I don't have my tape drive yet, though, so it would be more cost : effective for me than it would be for you. : : Good luck, : : Mark. The problem I've found is that I have a 386DX-33 with an ethernet board, an IP address for me ... but what I haven't is knowing of how to set up ftp client. I mean how to define all IP addresses of the others' machines and so... Happy new year! Toni Moreno