alanp wrote:
> 
> 
> > From: "Colin Wood" <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
> 
> > alanp wrote:
> > > 
> > > Thanks for all the helpful notes.  It looks like I got my kernel
> > > sources from the wrong place for what I want to do and that is the
> > > root of my problem.
> 
> I think I figured out what happened.  After I pulled down the 1.2.1
> tar files, I went looking for a kernel source tar file in ksrc121, but
> the only thing in there is the split-up-into-bit-sized-chunks version
> of the source.  Then I stumbled onto sys.tar.gz in NetBSD-current and the
> rest is history ...

Ah....that explains it :-)

> > > Once I confirm that I can build kernels again, I would like to
> > > transition my system to -current.  What is the best way to go about
> > > this? 
> > 
> > Well, I don't know about the best way, but on the mac68k port, we have
> > somewhat frequent binary snapshots of -current available, so I just
> > install those (and a -current kernel) and run from there.  Once you have
> > -current binaries, it's fairly simple to build a -current kernel ;-)
> 
> But how do you start this ball rolling?  Looking on ftp.netbsd.org under
> NetBSD-current, I could find no binaries to install, just source files.
> Those source files do not build under 1.2.1.  Can I just build the new
> config, then build a kernel off -current source and go?  Are there -current
> binaries that I have not yet discovered?

Well, there are actually quite a few other programs you'll probably need
to build in addition to 'config' (like 'make', among others).  But the
basic thing is, yes, there are -current binaries you haven't discovered
yet :-)  Take a look at /pub/NetBSD/arch/<ARCH> (where <ARCH> is whatever
you're going to be running...I assume i386).  There are usually -current
snapshots somewhere in these directories.

> My projects are to finish my NTFS support in NetBSD that I started in
> McKusick's BSD class that he taught at Berkeley last year (I hope he is
> not reading this and noting that I STILL haven't finished it :-( and
> taking a look at the PCMCIA code since I have some experience in that
> area.  I should probably keep up-to-date on -current, right?

Probably so, but -current is pretty much frozen right now, and it won't
unfreeze for a couple of months, so you can start with 1.3ALPHA.  This
should be available sometime tomorrow, depending on how long an i386 build
takes.

I hope this helps.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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