[1384] in netbsd-help mailing list archive
Re: question about NIC
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Edwin Foo)
Thu Dec 17 22:13:48 1998
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 22:15:38 -0500
To: Eric Sit <esit@MIT.EDU>, matt debergalis <deberg@MIT.EDU>
From: Edwin Foo <efoo@MIT.EDU>
Cc: Sean M Maguire <sleeper@MIT.EDU>, netbsd-help@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: <199812180308.WAA00147@buzzword-bingo.mit.edu>
As someone who was formerly trying to do the same thing as you, I would
highly recommend that you _not_ try installing 1.3.2, then compiling the
-current sources. You will waste days trying to get them to compile -- too
much has changed since 1.3.2 was released.
A few generous people occasionally make snapshots of -current available on
ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/i386/. They should install normally, except
you'll have to compile X yourself by downloading the -current xsrc source
tree.
I can't about your network card though. If -current doesn't support it,
then I'd say you should just wait, because I doubt the older released
version will support it either. On the other hand, good network cards that
are supported by NetBSD are fairly cheap nowadays.
-Edwin Foo
At 10:08 PM 12/17/98 EST, Eric Sit wrote:
>What's the procedure for installing NetBSD current?
>are there specific boot disks?
>or do you have to install release then get the current? what if release
>doesn't support your network card?
>
>thanks,
>eric
>
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