In message <Pine.GSO.3.93.970108202500.3679C-100000@stingray.ivision.co.uk> you wrote:

> You'll have to deceide weither you want the latest kernel sources in which
> case you'll have to get the latest versions of vairous programs as well and
> may have to recompile some programs you have installed your self, oh and
> the include files will probably change too and other stuff (Says he rather
> unhelpfully :-)).

I downloaded the latest kernel sources taken from ftp.netbsd.org
(NetBSD-current). I had a few problems compiling it as I had to change some
reference from rd to md, remove the -Werror because the file ioconf.c
reported many warnings and hack the Makefiles (probably because I haven't
installed GNU make) but it finally compiled! Unfortunately ps, top, w, etc.
no longer works...

After all, it seems that the kernel I compiled is exactly the same as
SA110-4871 except the fact that I can't run ps! It is also almost as big as
SA110-4871 (1.6Mb) although I think I removed some feature from the config
file (eg. all the SCSI and Ethernet drivers). How can I keep the size down, I
believe Mark said something about kernel sizes recently but I can't remember
what he said...

Where can I find a list of kernel changes after a certain date? I haven't
been able to find anything on ftp.netbsd.org but I haven't spent much time, I
have to admit...

> You could install sup on whatever your machine-with-netaccess-is (if it's a
> unix box) and sup to it via a daily/weekly crontask which you can then tar
> up and transfer (some tars do incremental archives so you only need to
> transfer the changes)
> If you want a sup file that works just ask.

Yes, I now nothing at all about sup so I'd like to see a complete
configuration script/file in order to run it on a FreeBSD machine I have
access to. Unfortunately I can't download 8Mb of data every time... but I
think that this exactly the point in using sup rather than downloading a big
tar file...
Also, I can't run crontab nor I can install anything that needs root access.
I believe that sup is already installed on that machine, though.

Thanks,
Sergio

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