Hi,

Thankyou for your reply. I guess what I was confused about where to
download the binaries. I should have been more specific in the question
tha I asked. Thankyou for that info. I upgraded the server by unpacking
the binaries from while in /. It seemed to work and is running 4.0beta2
with MP support, but now I can't do a successful world (source tree)
build. It seems to fail regardless of what date the source come from.
Finally, I copied the source from a friend of mine's server who must have
had an older source, because now it tells me when installing some of the
libraries that the source is older than what is already installed. I am so
mad at this server that if I knew how to override this message and get it
to install it anyway I would. So, is there a way to force an install
during the build process?

Thanks,
Al






On Tue, 22 May 2007 chriswareham@chriswareham.demon.co.uk wrote:

> Date: Tue, 22 May 2007 10:05:28 +0100
> From: chriswareham@chriswareham.demon.co.uk
> To: DataZap <az@datazap.net>, netbsd-help@netbsd.org
> Subject: Re: upgrading to 4.0
>
> az@datazap.net wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I googled, but I wasn't able to find any documentation on how to upgrade
> > to 4.0. Could someone either provide me a link or give some instructions
> > on how to do this?
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Al
> >
>
> NetBSD 4.0 hasn't been released yet, but a beta version is available
> from the FTP site and mirrors. Regular builds can be found at:
>
> ftp://ftp.<mirror>.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/
>
> Just replace "<mirror>" with a suitable country code (the complete
> list of mirrors is at http://www.netbsd.org/mirrors/#ftp). Download
> either an ISO image, or just the boot floppy images if you have a
> floppy drive and can do a network install. A guide to burning a
> bootable CD-ROM is at http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/bootcd.html,
> and the INSTALL files describe in considerable detail how to start the
> installation procedure.
>
> Although NetBSD 4.0 is still at the beta stage, I am using it on
> several machines without any problems as are many others.
>
> Chris
>
>
>