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Re: installing netbsd prerelease

daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Nathan J. Williams)
Tue Jul 7 17:49:40 1998

To: "Andrew J. Kim" <ajkim@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
From: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Tue, 07 Jul 1998 16:53:01 EDT."
             <199807072053.QAA05920@eecs-ath-49.MIT.EDU> 
Date: Tue, 07 Jul 1998 17:49:34 EDT

> I was planning on installing the new NetBSD prerelease.  Which file in
> /mit/netbsd/prerelease/athena-8.0/i386 should I copy to floppy?
> floppy.fs or floppy.fs-patch?

	Actually, you want the floppy.fs that I put there just
now. It's updated slightly for the latest changes in the release.

> Would it be correct to assume that everything else for the
> installation is as describe on the installation sheet for the old
> version.

	It's not identical, but the process is very similar. You will
be asked a slightly different set of questions than those described on
the current install sheet. 

	- Nathan

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