Hi All

A few days ago I had posted a note
about a problem I am having lighting
up a system that has a 2940 Adaptec
SCSI controller.

My intention was to install NetBSD 1.1
on this system.

I found that the available installation
floppies for 1.1 would not recognize 
the Adaptec 2940 controller.

Several folks mentioned that they had run into
this problem and suggested i use 1.2 Beta 
installation floppies.

These floppies seemed to work and on a test
disk (spare hard drive ) I was able to
get through installing a file system
and copying in a kernel.

What I would like to do now is continue
with the installation.

But I am not sure as to how to proceed.

I have obtained a set of tarred files
from a snapshot of "current"

I also have the complete set of NetBSD
"release".

Could I simply proceed with the normal
installation of the "release" version
of "NetBSD 1.1" using the "normal"
files. ?

Do I have to do something further
with the other stuff in the snapshot 
of current.

Preferences...

Best case 
1. I would like to know how I might
patch the release kernel for  NetBSD 1.1
i386 and make a new installation floppy
given the folowing resources

An Amiga running NetBSD 1.1

An i386 box running NetBSD 1.0

Another i386 box running nothing (the box in question)

Things I'm nervy about
1.I don't know how "Patch" works
  I want "Patch" to update a specific
  copy of the kernel hopefully
 not ruining anything that is running.

2.If running patch is easy and easily
  made to update a targeted kernel.How
  do I go about creating the floppy
  images.

2a Can I copy the patched kernel
   straight to the floppy and expect it to work.

2b Is the floppy kernel special in any way.

3. Would it be easier to patch the floppy.

   The floppy seems pretty packed Is there
   anything none essential here

al

aurbaiti@svc.picker.com