: > >I would upgrade to 1.5 but this box is in the dark corner of some
: > >machine room and if something happened after the upgrade and
: > >caused it not to boot, i would have to take a lecture from the
: > >sys admin.  Thats why i want to be safe and just build a new
: > >kernel with the support. checking out of the cvs repository is no
: > >problem just want to know the date of the source that was used to
: > >compile the 1.5_ALPHA2 i386 distribution on the ftp server.

"Which 1.5_ALPHA2 distribution?"

It was compiled more than once and reuploaded the second time over top of
the old copy, and was not built exactly at the 1-5-ALPHA2 tag.

You're better off using 1.5 sources.  If something goes wrong and you need
support from the NetBSD developers, you need to be at the latest full
release on the branch.

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