On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, Matthew Grant wrote:

> I have NetBSD 1.5.1 at home with no
> internet. At work I burned
> the tar files from
> ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-release-1-5
> to cd(the kernel from here works awsome on
> my laptop). went home and extracted them and
> tried the build. I didn't get far because of
> some toolset option was not specified.

Details are everything...

> I'm sorry I don't have the exact error And I
> have never done a complete build but I read
> something about a new toolchain or something.

The new toolchain is only for current.

> I was just wondering what the steps where to
> build a system from sources. And what is
> this toolchain stuff.

To go from 1.5.1 to netbsd-1-5 (now at 1.5.3_ALPHA), all you have to
do is configure and build a kernel, boot it, and then "make obj &&
make build" at the top. The old-toolchain instructions for current
mostly apply -- <http://www.netbsd.org/Documentation/current/>.

Just like current (used to be, with the old toolchain), sometimes you
have to update a binary or two before you the whole build can proceed,
but the changes from 1.5.1 to netbsd-1-5 have been fairly minimal, so
I wouldn't expect many problems. If you do get an error, report the
exact error here, and no doubt someone who's done all this before will
see right away what the problem is.

Frederick