Subject: Re: next iteration
To: None <port-vax@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Allison J Parent <allisonp@world.std.com>
List: port-vax
Date: 10/30/1997 02:06:31
<If someone of you out there are hoping that there will be a new nice
<way to install things in 1.3; I must disappoint you. 1.3 will have
<the same painful way to do installations. But my hope is that the
It would be better if everything works as advertized. The 1.2c version is
the example I hold up for this. Edlable didn't work and bootp was in the
wrong place on the tape.
<system in other ways will be more stable and functional than previous
<versions; such that for example it won't crash on MicroVAX II when
<booting it up. Any new features I have written will wait until
<post-1.3, so that we get a system as stable as possible.
I suspect if it's complete and functional documenting an typical MV-II
installation would be easier as the steps could be laid out.
Allison