On Fri, Jan 14, 2005 at 10:44:30PM +0000, Amadeus Stevenson wrote:
> On Fri, 14 Jan 2005 22:37:14 +0100, Manuel Bouyer
> <bouyer@antioche.eu.org> wrote:
> > > uname -a:
> > >
> > > NetBSD GATEWAY 2.0 NetBSD 2.0 (GENERIC) #0: Wed Dec  1 10:58:25 UTC
> > > 2004  builds@build:/big/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-RELEASE/i386/200411300000Z-obj/big/builds/ab/netbsd-2-0-RELEASE/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC
> > > i386
> > 
> > This tree should track the netbsd-2-0 CVS branch, i.e. it's moving.
> > It's not a checkout of the netbsd-2-0-RELEASE CVS Tag.
> > You can find the sources in ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0/sources/
> 
> Ok, so it seems my installation is not  stable branch?

What do you have in /etc/release ?

> 
> I tried the source from the link above but still get differences in
> the kernels from adjustkernel comparing dmesg and the conf:
> 
> # NOTE: NoMatch: atabus0 at piixide0 channel 0
> # NOTE: NoMatch: atabus1 at piixide0 channel 1
> # NOTE: NoMatch: audio0 at auich0: full duplex, mmap, independent
> # NOTE: NoMatch: atapibus0 at atabus1: 2 targets

Maybe adjustkernel isn't getting things right for 2.0 ...
I never used it so I don't know.

> 
> What install version of netbsd 2 should I use?

the CVS tag netbsd-2-0-RELEASE is the sources for the 2.0 release (i.e.
the stuff in
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0/)
From here there are 2 branches:
- netbsd-2-0, which will get only critical and security fixes. The next release
  (if any) on this branch will be 2.0.1.
  The sources in ftp://.../pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-2-0/ are checked out
  from this branch.
- netbsd-2, which will get what gets in netbsd-2-0, and additionnal features
  that are not too intrusive (for example, new drivers). The next release
  on this branch will be 2.1.

No security problems were discovered in netbsd-2-0-RELEASE yet, so you may
stay with the release. Alternatively, if you're concerned by fixes that
went in netbsd-2-0, you may want to track this branch.

> I burnt an iso a while
> back, maybe that was not a stable release? Is there an easy way to
> upgrade without reinstalling?

Yes boot from install media, and choose "upgrade" in sysinst.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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