At 8:40 AM +0100 2002/04/12, David Brownlee wrote:

>  	To get a NetBSD-current distribution.
>  	a) Download the full current source

	Got that, as of a couple of days ago.

>  	b) run     ./build.sh -d -D $DESTDIR -R $RELEASEDIR
>
>  	$DESTDIR will contain a complete destination tree except for
>  	the kernel and devices. $RELEASEDIR will contains complete
>  	installation sets including instalation media images.
>  	(except X).

	If you don't specify these two directories, I presume that 
reasonable defaults filled in?

>  	If you have another faster machine of a different type, (*)
>  	just use ./build.sh -d -D $DESTDIR -R $RELEASEDIR -m sparc

	This sort of thing seems to be a typical NetBSD assumption -- 
that a site will have multiple NetBSD machines, of various different 
types, and that all builds will be done on the fastest machine. 
However, I'm not that complex, and I'm getting kind of lost in all 
the extra details -- I've got only the one server at the moment, and 
it is running NetBSD.  This is the machine I want to upgrade.  It's 
slow, but it's all I've got.  So, I don't need (or want) all that 
extra information, much of which I am finding a little confusing at 
the moment.

	There are other machines in the house that I plan to bring online 
at some point in the relatively near future, but we're not there yet.

-- 
Brad Knowles, <brad.knowles@skynet.be>

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safety deserve neither liberty nor safety."
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