On Fri, Apr 15, 2005 at 01:06:15PM +0300, Martti Kuparinen wrote:
> Peter I. Hansen wrote:
> 
> >>Or get the binaries and extract them
> >>
> >>cd /tmp
> >>ftp ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-2.0.2/i386/binary/sets/
> >> bi
> >> prompt
> >> mg *tgz
> >> bye
> >>
> >>rm etc.tgz
> >>for i in *tgz
> >>do
> >> tar xpfz $i -C /
> >>done
> >>
> >>Then get or compile your kernel...
> >
> >
> >I'm a bit confused here. You prefer compiling the new kernel as
> >the last step. I know it should not make a big difference when
> >it's only from 2.0->2.0.2, but there must be a 'best way' of
> >doing things...
> 
> My mistake: always compile a new kernel (or install it from the
> binary sets), reboot and install (or compile) everything else.
> 

ok, so I would want to get kern-GENERIC.tgz, unpack and copy it
to root?
But, is operation not included in your recipe above, where you
get fetch all the binary sets?

-Peter