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- From: mark@roissy.umd.edu (Mark Sienkiewicz)
- Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd
- Subject: Re: [386bsd] Help finding an up-to-date kernel
- Message-ID: <17702@umd5.umd.edu>
- Date: 23 Dec 92 16:34:49 GMT
- References: <lje9qaINN4hs@news.bbn.com>
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- In article <lje9qaINN4hs@news.bbn.com> blackett@bbn.com (Kent Blackett) writes:
- >
- >I'm really new to 386bsd, and I got to where I am by ftp'ing the distribution
- >files at work, then ftp'ing them to a Mac at work, then writing DOS-format
- >floppies on the Mac, then taking the floppies home to the PC.
- >
-
- Here's an alternative you can consider. (I did this for my system.)
-
- Carry the whole machine in to work and "borrow" an IP address for long
- enough to ftp in the distribution. You need an ethernet board, of course,
- but if you can borrow one of them too, you're in good shape.
-
- The install disk comes with the ftp client, which you can use to get
- the distribution over the net. Be warned-- the kernel on the install
- disk has some debugging left on in the network code, so it will be
- pretty slow to do the transfer. It took me several hours to get the
- whole bin01, src01, and etc01 distributions over, but I wasn't paying
- attention to it either, so I don't know how long it was waiting for me.
- Mostly, I would look at it once in a while and and see
- "startstartstartstartstartstartstart" moving across the screen.
-
- It happens that there was an ethernet board I could borrow, but before I
- knew that would be the case, I considered buying one for occasions like
- this. I don't have my tape drive yet, though, so it would be more cost
- effective for me than it would be for you.
-
- Good luck,
-
- Mark.
-