Chris Craft wrote:
> 
>  Next up is figuring out how to "compile the world" (sources are 
> 650MB?!?),

  They aren't that big:

-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff     793318 Jun 27 00:04 bin.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff      40769 Jun 27 00:04 config.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff     340091 Jun 27 00:04 distrib.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff     424670 Jun 27 00:05 domestic.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff     105518 Jun 27 00:05 etc.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff    2527588 Jun 27 00:05 games.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff     851857 Jul 26 17:29 gennetbsd.latest
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff    8230712 Jun 27 00:06 gnu.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff      75828 Jun 27 00:06 include.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff    1679190 Jun 27 00:07 lib.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff     223048 Jun 27 00:07 libexec.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff      46985 Jun 27 00:07 regress.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff     522471 Jun 27 00:07 sbin.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff    2732998 Jun 27 00:07 share.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff    9860694 Jun 27 00:09 sys.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff        839 Aug 05 17:20 top-level.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff    2830337 Jun 27 00:09 usr.bin.tar.gz
-rw-r--r--   1 dfevans  staff    4243925 Jun 27 00:10 usr.sbin.tar.gz

although compiling is a bit of a chore (mine died last night and I haven't
started to fix it yet.)

> and put in newusers. (This seems to be way different from 
> Linux.)

  Use vipw to add an entry in the password file, create the home directory,
and copy over stuff you want from /usr/share/skel.

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