>=20
> > I'm using the first one. Might make a difference.
> It might be. What bootblocks do you use? (Date) I remember an other

the 1.4.2 ones I believe.

> mail in port-vax about this problem. The solution was a new booter.
> Normaly the bootprocess will continue when you enter the correct
> root-dev. If you get the box bootet untar my snapshot and do a=20
> disklabel -B sd0

I hope this works. It seems when I am booting from the 1.4.2 diskette
I cannot execute snapshot binaries due to shared library problems.

> to install the new booter. Watch the date in the copyright message of
> the booter.
>=20
> > unfortunaltely this assumes I already have a working "development"
> > system (compilers, etc.) :-(
> Untar comp.tgz ;-)

see above. It's not that easy.

> OK, OK. But remember the number of hardware platforms NetBSD is running
> on. It is imposible to provide precompiled binary packages for every
> platform. Puting ssh in tree is a legal problem (no BSD licence). Maybe
> this will be solved by OpenSSH. It is allready integrated in to the

I believe it should. IMHO ssh and sshd are quite essential binaries
which, if possible, ought to be included into the base set.

> FreeBSD base system.=20



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