[715] in NetBSD-Development
Re: State of the release
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Greg Hudson)
Sun Apr 16 02:36:50 1995
To: ghudson@MIT.EDU
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
In-Reply-To: Your message of "Sun, 16 Apr 1995 04:09:08 GMT."
<199504160409.EAA01022@lola-granola.MIT.EDU>
Date: Sun, 16 Apr 1995 02:36:16 EDT
From: Greg Hudson <ghudson@MIT.EDU>
Note: someone should edit /etc/netstart on limekiller and set
named_flags to "" instead of NO.
> * The boot blocks are "special Cat debugging" boot blocks.
> They work, but display extra messages.
This was because glacier had them in /usr/mdec and I didn't have
DESTDIR set while creating the floppies. It should all be fixed now.
limekiller still has the funny boot blocks, but its /usr/mdec should
have normal ones. The kcaha-10a.fs boot disk next to limekiller does
have the debugging ones in its /usr/mdec, though.
> * Our netstart.ed script doesn't properly disable routed.
This is because the /etc/netstart in 1.0A uses named_flags instead of
name_server, and since it's not trivial (at 2:30am) to get an ed
script to work both both, I probably won't fix it until we cut over to
a -current binary release.
> * The kernel boot disk should not have copy_kernel.
> * We aren't distributing an attach.conf.
> * Our /etc/ttys file should have the serial entries moved down
> so that the utmp indices match the initial /etc/ttys file.
> * The "Configure" shell function on the install disk does a
> lot of things wrong (doesn't create /etc/mygate, writes an
> incorrect hostname.ep0 file) and I would like to change its
> defaults to match our environment (in terms of netmask, and
> whether to include the domain in /etc/myname).
All fixed, although I haven't put a new distribution on rtfm yet (I
will after I get a chance to test it). I put my changes to Configure
and the kernel boot disk under RCS.
No progress on documentation yet.
