On Fri, Jan 26, 2001 at 05:15:33PM +0530, Rakhesh Sasidharan wrote:
> > > ftp://ftp.plathome.co.jp/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src/
> 
> > > ftp://ftp.plathome.co.jp/pub/IPv6/kame-20010115-netbsd15-snap/i386/
> 
> Hmmm, I went thru the NetBSD tracking -current docs now, and I it says I
> need to download the stuff in the first link

You need the NetBSD-current sources if you want to build -current.
These are available from sup, ftp, anoncvs, etc.  I'd probably suggest
anoncvs.  There's instructions for that available at:

http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/current/#using-anoncvs

> and also the stuff in
> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/snapshot/.

Installing a snapshot of NetBSD-current beforehand would definitely make
it easier for you.  You may wish to find a newer snapshot though. :)

I think there was a URI for a newer snapshot in the thread you got these
Plat'Home links from.

> Would it be OK if I
> download the plathome link 2 instead of the netbsd link ?  

That's a snapshot of NetBSD-release-1-5, not NetBSD-current.  See:

http://www.netbsd.org/Releases/release-map.html

for more on the terminology being used and graphs on how the release
branches work.

That said, yes, you can definitely install that snapshot, but then
you would be building -current on pretty much a 1.5 box (I'm not sure
how difficult that would be, I've been running -current only, sans
production machines, for a long time).

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