On Sat, Nov 19, 2005 at 10:10:34PM -0500, Michael wrote:
> Hello,
>
>>> All you need (including X) is in -current now, no need to use the old stuff
>>> from ftp - just grab a recent snapshot from releng and build your own kernel,
>>> I'm pretty sure your opinion about usefulness of certain drivers differs from
>>> mine ;)
>>
>> Never tracked -current before, nor have I built anything more than the
>> (release) kernel or pkgsrc, this will be a whole new adventure. =)
>
> Building a -current kernel isn's any different from building a release kernel ;)

didn't figure it would be =)

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>> Done.  And it still does the same thing.  I can continue to log in over
>> ssh, but from the ttys, I get locked out after I log out after the first
>> (only) time.  I see the gettys on the other wscons, but after I put in
>> my username, I get kicked back to the login prompt.
>
> Weird. Did you unpack base.tgz by hand and forgot the p flag?
> I have no idea how 3.0 or earlier will do with a -current kernel these days.
> What kind of userland do you run? 2.1?

I grabbed the sets from your ftp area, then I grabbed the rootfs tar set
for netbooting 2.1 (I think...) and netbooted one of your kernels with
that for the rootfs.  I pointed sysinst at the sets I downloaded and let
that do the install.

>> Might be bugs with the build I'm running, time to start fetching stuff.
>
> Yeah, looks like a hosed installation to me.

Yeah.

-- 
Michael Parson
mparson@bl.org