>You also have to install a new kernel - it seems the new network programs need
>a few kernel functions that are not present in the 1.2 kernel.  The kernel
>in the snapshot directory should work.  You are not alone with this gotcha -
>the same happened to me when I updated.  Thankfully, FTP'ing something INTO
>the machine still worked...

Oops, sorry, I  took that as read.
The snapshots are (by definition) a snapshot of NetBSD-current.
-current has considerable  enhancements over NetBSD 1.2.

You should usually install a new kernel (a reasonably recent version
of -current) *before* upgrading a system from NetBSD 1.2 to -current.


The problems you're most likely to run into include:

	* support for, and using, a vaguely SysV-like poll()
	  system call, which doesn't have the fdset-size limitations
	  of select(); and

	* A  boot() system call that takes an extra argument. If you
	  run the  /sbin/shutdown or /sbin/reboot binaries from -current
	  on a NetBSD-1.2 kernel, the system will silently hang.
	  If it's a DECstation, you'll have to powercycle it to get it back

This is, of course, not a problem when running -current binaries on 
a -current kernel, *or* with running 1.2 binaries on a kernel
configured with COMPAT_12.  

>Jonathan, if my remark about snap-
>shots offended you, I honestly apologize for it.

Oh no, that's fine.  I just wanted to clarify what the `snapshots' are.