In message <20050731145937.D31D67A8C86@ws4-4.us4.outblaze.com>, "Karim Forsthof
er" writes:
>
>> On Sun, Jul 31, 2005 at 09:34:07PM +0800, Karim Forsthofer wrote:
>> > Now I cannot find slattach program after loading the bootdisk into RAM.
>> > Where did the developers from the good old days put it?  It should be
>> > shipped with the floppy, shouldn`t it? Without slattach, I have no idea
>> > how to setup a nullmodem connection between my main machine and the
>> > notebook.
>> 
>> The install disks contain only what is strictly needed by sysinst (for a
>> "normal" installation), to keep 'em small.  Try to untar the base.tgz set
>> on another machine, and fetch it (and the necessary libraries) to your
>> notebook with ftp.
>
>he he... that`s the problem, no ftp, telnet, slip, plib possible without slatt
>ach deamon. But I found it. They put only on the rescue disk for this version.
> I also found out that slattach on the 1.5 does not work.Slattach seems to be 
>the only program in /sbin /bin that does not respond when you try to execute i
>t. that`s bad luck.
>
>I tried out NetBSD 1.4 and it`s avaliable (and working) on the normal tiny-boo
>t floppy. No problem with this one. So I will go one with 1.4
>

Note that there have been some security advisories that might 
affect you:

ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2004-006.txt.asc
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/security/advisories/NetBSD-SA2002-024.txt.asc

		--Steven M. Bellovin, http://www.cs.columbia.edu/~smb