I am still trying to move from SunOS 4.1.4 to probably NetBSD
(with a smaller Un*x on the i386 whose primary function it is to serve
as parallel port for the IPC.  It is the case that I cannot completely
drop extant projects until I get the tools rebuilt/configured on the
new OS.  (There were some problems with standard builds, plus it just
takes time.)  

Thus, the std binary install scripts wipe the root partition when I
would like to NetBSD root partition to be elsewhere for the nonce.
The miniroot filesystem is apparently read-only.  I would rather build
the thing from src anyway.

The current difficulty is with anoncvs, a session below shows the
problem: for whatever reasons the remote server refuses the
connection.  Commands are taken from
http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/current/#top, cvs-1.10.8 just
built and installed over cvs-1.10.1 yesterday.  I would like to avoid
pulling some 40-80 Mb of code over the network just to bring the
1.5.0_Alpha srcs up to date.  I am new to cvs, but according to the
local and web documentation, this should nominally succeed.
Suggestions would be welcome.




			John R. Towler


bash-2.02$ cvs -d :pserver:anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot login
(Logging in to anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org)
CVS password: 
bash-2.02$ pwd       
/usr/local/src/netbsd/src
bash-2.02$ cvs update -d -P 
^Ccvs [update aborted]: received interrupt signal
bash-2.02$ cvs -t update -d -P
cvs update: notice: main loop with
CVSROOT=anoncvs@anoncvs.netbsd.org:/cvsroot
 -> Starting server: rsh anoncvs.netbsd.org -l anoncvs cvs server 
anoncvs.netbsd.org: Connection refused
cvs [update aborted]: end of file from server (consult above messages
if any)