On Sat, Aug 20, 2005 at 11:02:54PM +0200, A. L. Meyers wrote:
> >> Fri Feb 18 01:51:22 CET 2005 
> >> bouyer@pop.lip6.fr:/local/pop1/bouyer/tmp/i386/obj/local/ 
> >> pop1/bouyer/current-clean/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/GENERIC.MP
> >>  i386
> >> 
> >> I upgraded the sources to the netbsd-2 branch.  Then I 
> >> compiled a kernel using the standard procedure and the 
> >> GENERIC.MP file.  It booted without any problem but 
> >> subsequently I could not log in as described above.  Have 
> >> build a new system as well but have not yet installed it.
> > 
> > 
> > In your case, as you're downgrading, the procedure would be to 
> > first install the userland, and then the new kenrel.
> > 
> Thanks a million, Manuel!  I posted a question on the user land
> installation on netbsd.general.  Sorry to confuse the 2 groups but
> is isn't yet clear to me which one is for what.  BTW since I just
> want a stable, reasonably up to date system, is this downgrading
> the correct approach or do you recommend a different tag than
> netbsd-2?

Yes, as of this writing it is (at last officially). netbsd-3 is still beta.
However I have some production systems running netbsd-3 and they are stable :)

-- 
Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@antioche.eu.org>
     NetBSD: 26 ans d'experience feront toujours la difference
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