Subject: Re: Upgrading from 1.5.2 to -current?
To: Brad Knowles <brad.knowles@skynet.be>
From: Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
List: port-sparc
Date: 04/11/2002 22:24:44
On Thu, Apr 11, 2002 at 08:16:53PM +0200, Brad Knowles wrote:
> Folks,
> 
> 	Maybe this is a question better aimed at -questions, but I 
> figured I would ask here first, to see if there were any 
> platform-specific issues to be concerned about.
> 
> 
> 	Anyway, I recently installed NetBSD 1.5.2 on a Twinhead 
> Twinstation 5G (Sun SPARCstation 5 clone), but I'm now trying to 
> upgrade to -current, because I want support for the QuadFastEthernet 
> SBus card that I have also installed.  Unfortunately, what 
> documentation I have found online doesn't seem to really address this 
> issue very well.
> 
> 	I have managed to do a CVS checkout of all the current source 
> code (all ~710MB worth), but it is not clear to me what the next step 
> should be, and what kinds of things I should be looking out for.

in src/ you should have a file called BUIDLING. This should have all the
infos.
Be carefull to not install new binaries before you have a new kernel running.

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
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