> Are you sure it's safe to unplug and replug the keyboard while the
> computer is on?  I don't want to fry anything and find I voided the
> warranty.  I tried booting single user (boot -s), no good,

Re. the keyboard, I suppose that you have a point.  Normally I'm leary of
such things, but since Peter claimed not that it helped him (implying that
it didn't fry his system)...  (Peter, did you actually unplug & replug the
keyboard?  Or did you use a KVM switch?)


If by ``netbsdi.gz'' you mean a gzipped INSTALL kernel, you can try that.
By my recollection, the INSTALL kernel really only wants to run the
sysinst installation tool.  It probably won't do anything all that
exciting for you, but you can try.


> Why do you say I don't want to cross-compile

Err, I didn't.  What I did say was:

>> Since
>> don't need or want to cross-compile NetBSD, I really can't tell you
>> much more about the matter.

...which doesn't even make grammatical sense.  What I meant to say was:

>> Since I don't need or want ...

...which makes grammatic sense, and also just makes plain sense.  (^&


If you want to learn more about cross-compiling the kernel, you should
probably get the latest sources to -current, and (if it's not clear from
there what to do) start asking questions on the current-users@netbsd.org
mailing list.  (That list is dedicated to dealing with issues specifically
related to -current, at least in theory...  In any case, you'll probably
find a higher concentration of knowledge about -current over there.)


  ``I probably don't know what I'm talking about.'' --rauch@math.rice.edu