Subject: Re: 1.4.2 kernel in the 1.5 ftp directory
To: Guy Santiglia <guy@slammer.santiglia.com>
From: Henry B. Hotz <hotz@jpl.nasa.gov>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 01/16/2001 15:04:38
At 2:14 PM -0800 1/13/01, Guy Santiglia wrote:
>Colin Wood wrote:
>
> > Guy Santiglia wrote:
> > > There seems to be a 1.4.2 kernel in the 1.5 ftp directory.  Where is the
> > > kern.tgz for 1.5?
> > > Is there a reason for this 1.4.2 kernel in the 1.5 ftp directory?
> > >
> > > right now I'm boot from one of those netbsd.GENERIC.gz kernels in my
> > > macOS desktop.
> >
> > what are you talking about?  kern.tgz contains the string:
> >
> > NetBSD 1.5 (GENERIC) #0: Sun Nov 19 14:20:10 PST 2000
> >
> > are you sure you're booting from the kernel you think you are?
> >
> > -colin
>
>Mine contains the string with 1.4.2.  But, on second thought I'd better
>double check the booter to make sure i'm looking on  sd1 and not
>sd0.   Thanks for your help.

The kernel is distributed in two places (why?).  Are we talking about 
the kernels in the binary/sets directory or the kernels in the 
binary/kernel directory?


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