Subject: Re: How to get RiscBSD without a CD
To: None <kim@pvv.ntnu.no>
From: Mike Pumford <mpumford@black-star.demon.co.uk>
List: port-arm32
Date: 08/06/1998 20:50:45
On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 kim@pvv.ntnu.no wrote:

> > Hi,
> >   Ok the last X server build for the RiscPC including Xarm33 is now
> > available at
> > 
> > ftp.netbsd.org:/pub/NetBSD/arch/arm32/RPC-X11R6.3/
> 
> Thank you very much for that. I got it, but have not tried it yet.
> 
> However, I was somewhat confused when touring in that NetBSD/arch/
> directory. All that other stuff, kernels, sets, and code, is that
> more up to date than the 1.3.2 release easily found at the top?
> Should I drop 1.3.2 and install that instead?
> 
If you are talking about the UVM snapshots then they are more recent than
1.3.2 but they are not necessarily as stable since they are just
NetBSD-current snapshots.

> I am still using 1.2, since it was stable, available,and had 
> CumanaII scsi driver, but my system is full now.
> 
The safest approach is to go for 1.3.2.

Mike