Subject: Re: building from source
To: Frederick Bruckman <fredb@immanent.net>
From: paul <pkdb1@attbi.com>
List: netbsd-help
Date: 01/19/2002 15:59:23
My mistake: I thought the OP wanted to build from scratch w/o net
access. the installer CDs looked like a good way to get everything at
one go.
I found them here:
http://www.linuxiso.org/netbsd.html
I assumed these were bootable images/
Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Fri, 18 Jan 2002, paul wrote:
>
>
>>If you can burn a CD, you would do better to follow the install docs and
>>create a bootable ISO installer with the trimmings: then you can add in
>>the missing bits as needed.
>>
>
> To make a netbsd-1-5 bootable CD, the OP would need to build it first,
> as there are currently no binaries available for download from the
> release branch.
>
>
>>>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).
>>>
>
> Frederick
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