Subject: Re: Newbie Install
To: Steve Brown <netbsd@prayforwind.com>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/14/2002 23:21:27
On Mon, Jan 14, 2002 at 03:18:37PM -0500, Steve Brown wrote:
> Good day everyone!
> 
> This is my first post here, I'm about to try NetBSD
> 
> I'd like to install NetBSD on a 64M i386 PII, 8G drive, and I'm a newbie
> (although I have some experience with FreeBSD). Is there a way to install  a
> fresh system from ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-1-5/
> (release branch) rather than the formal release?

No, you have to install a release then get the sources and recompile.
You have the details on the web server (basically 'make build' in /usr/src).

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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