Subject: Updating Libraries...
To: John P. Wittkoski <jpw@insoft.com>
From: Uncle John <happy@dircon.co.uk>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/07/1995 23:47:56
Hi,

A few questions that may be obvious, so apologies in advance... :

(1) I mentioned before that I need to update my libraries following errors
    from ld.so when trying to run X. Question: I installed the binaries found
    in the NetBSD-1.0 directory. Are there binaries for a later version of the
    libraries, and if so, can you point me towards them? Each archive seems to
    have a different structure... I guess I currently have the binaries dated
    around October 94? Somethign like that.

(2) UK Mirrors for NetBSD - When I finally installed NetBSD with the Wittkoski
    kernel, I found that I had to get Booter 1.8, since 1.4 didn't seem to work.
    However - I when looking for that booter, I found that the NetBSD archive
    at demon.co.uk still only had 1.4. In fact, many of the archives seem to be
    working on sets of files that are certainly not current by any means.
    Is anybody aware of any up to date UK mirrors? Can demon be persuaded to
    update? It's _painfully_ slow downloading from the blacksburg and cray-ymp
    ftp sites from the UK - that is if I can get a connection at all without
    timing out.

(3) Since I'm downloading stuff anyway (by 14.4 modem - ouch!), is it worth
me
    going the whole hog and trying out 1.1ALPHA? Has anybody tried John
    Wittkoski's kernel with 1.1ALPHA? John - do you know if it should work ok?
    I'm using an LCIII, so the Wittkoski kernel is rather essential! So - I'd
    really appreciate any feedback on whether or not this is a good idea.

Thanks all....hope these aren't totally dumb questions!

John.

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