Subject: Re: installation... what happend?
To: Allison J Parent <allisonp@world.std.com>
From: David Evans <dfevans@bbcr.uwaterloo.ca>
List: port-vax
Date: 07/31/1997 23:37:14
Allison J Parent wrote:
>
> < Are you playing with 1.2G or 1.2C? 1.2C is evil now that 1.2G is
> <available--avoid.
>
> I did write it was 1.2c and that was not an error.
Oops--sorry, I didn't notice you say that.
> I've not seen anything that says 1.2c didn't work either, onlyn
> there were problems in spcific hardware.
>
I suppose I exagerated. I ran 1.2C for a few months and it ran OK but had
severe problems compiling the world that I didn't have the patience to solve.
Still, it's a good way to get at 1.2G. :)
> < Did you try stuff like "ra(0,1)netbsd"?
>
> The howtwo said ra(0,1)gennetbsd, WRONG! It's ra(0,1)netbasd and it did
> come up
>
Yes, that howto needs attacking. Alas I can't volunteer at present.
> Now I have to copy /gennetbsd and /boot to the new root. Ok another step
> to mess up.
>
That step's really easy. ;)
Good luck with it.
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