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Andy,

Thanks for the response.

>>Unfortunately, the serial consule is feeling a little strange
 >
> I had that problem too.
> 
> It's because you are telling it to go to the debugger. It has to do
> with a kernel option that allows this from the serial console. Check
> this:
> 
> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-cobalt/2004/07/14/0001.html

Thanks for the tip. But, now I can't get the serial console to do 
anything. I can see all the output from the bootup, but I can't type 
anything. I'm using 115200/N81/Hardware flow control. Weird. I don't 
remember having any problems like this in the past.

(In case it makes a difference, I actually loaded 1.6, and not 1.6.1 as 
I had hoped... my boot CD wasn't labelled with the NetBSD version).

>>The NetBSD/Cobalt page mentions 1.6.2 but there's nothing on the FTP
>>site under "installation" -- only a binary kernel. There's also some
>>buzzing about NetBSD 2.0.
> 
> Just install 1.6.1, then go about installing whatever level you want
> after that. That's my best advice.

Okay, thanks for the great tips. I've noticed that some pre-built 
packages are pretty out-of-date. For example, 'ap-php', which ostensibly 
adds PHP support to Apache httpd is linked exclusively to apache-1.3.x. 
I'd prefer to use Apache 2.x if possible.

Am I better off compiling source packages myself, or using the package 
manager? I know very little about the NetBSD package manager -- 
basically how to use pkg_add, pkg_info, and pkg_delete in their most 
basic forms (i.e., I'd prefer for packages to go into /usr/local or /opt 
instead of /usr/pkg/foo/bar, etc.).

Thanks,
-chris

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