I got a bit impatient waiting for the new snapshot so I worked my way
around the problem... thought I'd post here in case this might be useful
to others.

(My problem was that I needed NetBSD to configure all of the 128 megs of
RAM in our new Pentium PRO server).

1) I built a 1.2E kernel from the -current sources. A lot of programs
like ps, vmstat and top stopped working.
2) I copied all the include files from -current (include.tar.gz) into my
/usr/include dir tree.
3) I built new kvm libraries from the -current source and installed
them. You need both libkvm.old and libkvm to compile. (libkvm.old for
i386 but the source references files in ../libkvm).
4) I rebuilt the programs that still didn't work (ps and vmstat) from
-current sources. Note that you have to make sure to link ps as a static
binary. (The makefile didn't do this, I just did a make -n and did a cut
and paste of the last command line (cc -o ps ...) plus added the -static
flag).

Now I have a system that runs (mostly) 1.2.1 binaries, a 1.2E kernel and
is happy to report:

(/var/log/messages:)
Jun  5 17:00:32 atlas /netbsd: NetBSD 1.2E (ATLAS) #0: Wed Jun  4
01:58:07 MET DST 1997
Jun  5 17:00:32 atlas /netbsd:
root@atlas.bitcon.no:/usr/src/sys/arch/i386/compile/ATLAS
Jun  5 17:00:32 atlas /netbsd: cpu0: family 6 model 1 step 7
Jun  5 17:00:32 atlas /netbsd: cpu0: Intel Pentium Pro (686-class)
Jun  5 17:00:32 atlas /netbsd: real mem  = 133824512
Jun  5 17:00:32 atlas /netbsd: avail mem = 123101184

(top:)
Memory: 6724K Act 5960K Inact 9224K Wired 103M Free

(vmstat:)
 procs   memory     page                    disks     
 r b w   avm   fre  flt  re  pi  po  fr  sr w0 w1 f0  
 0 0 0 47680106380    4   1   0   0   0   0  0  0  0  

 faults   cpu
 in   sy  cs us sy id
101   15   2  0  0 100

(pstat -s:)

Device      1K-blocks     Used    Avail Capacity  Type
/dev/wd0b      524160        4   524156     0%    Interleaved

Now on to the next problem, moving over 30 gigs of disks from a Digital
Unix system without missing a byte. Since I don't have that much space
on the NetBSD machine (I'll have to move the disks physically) I guess
I'll have to resort to tapes... no chance that NetBSD will understand
DU's disklabels and filesystems I suppose?

Gunnar

--
Gunnar Helliesen   | Bergen IT Consult AS  | NetBSD/VAX on a uVAX II
Systems Consultant | Bergen, Norway        | '86 Jaguar Sovereign 4.2
gunnar@bitcon.no   | http://www.bitcon.no/ | '73 Mercedes 280 (240D)


>-----Original Message-----
>From:	Perry E. Metzger [SMTP:perry@piermont.com]
>Sent:	Wednesday, June 04, 1997 4:49 AM
>To:	Gunnar Helliesen
>Cc:	'port-i386@netbsd.org'
>Subject:	Re: When is the next release or snapshot due? 
>
>A 1.2E snapshot is being built on my machines as I type this -- I will
>likely have it up by the weekend.
>
>Perry