On Mon, 14 Jan 2002, Steve Brown wrote:

> This is my first post here, I'm about to try NetBSD

Welcome!

> 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, not unless someone puts a snapshot up to

    ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/

but that usually doesn't happen until we get close to a release.

What you'll likely want to do, instead, is install NetBSD-1.5.2,
including the sources. Then "cd /usr/src; cvs update -rnetbsd-1-5",
and follow with "make build". (The source tarballs on ftp.netbsd.org
are all ready-to-go for anoncvs.) For "xsrc", "cvs update -A" followed
by "make build". There is no "stable" release for "xsrc" -- it's all
stable. ;-)

Frederick