On Mon, 17 Feb 1997, Joseph Sarkes wrote:

> David Brownlee wrote:
> > 
> >         Have you compiled & installed a new copy of 'config'?
> Thankyou David.
> That was indeed the case. After poking at it for the whole day,
> with no result (compiling the current kernel), I installed the
> whole system. After a couple of iterations of errors, mostly due
> to missing/out of date include files, I found a Makefile in the
> ftp src directory that the tar_files did not include. The overall

	Arrg.. than damn /usr/src/Makefile... Many people seem to get
	bitten by that one - it would be _really_ helpful if it was
	copied into the tarfiles directory so people would know
	to download it :) I might as well send-pr that... :)

> Makefile for the source tree automatically installs the includes,
> and a few other things. 1.2B config does not work, you have to 
> use 1.2C conifig for the kernel now. I managed to get a full make 
> done on the sources and then installed the results. My machine crashed 
> during make install. Hopefully it was a glitch due to a file in
> use by the system being updated. I am doing a new make build right
> now in case something got missed. I have been a happy user of 
> 1.1 on the system I'm installing 1.2C on, and hope to not run into too
> many problems updating. Has the scsi code changed now?. I have a
> scsi cdrom I could not get to work under 1.2B. Perhaps I don't have

	There have been many changes since 1.1 - I dont actually use
	an HP300 myself (my collection of NetBSD sparc & i386 boxes
	are enough to keep me busy), but its certainly worth upgrading
	from 1.1 to 1.2. Running 1.2C is a little more risky as its
	the development source rather than a 'release', but it _does_
	have good new stuff like tcp wrappers & the latest sendmail :)

	I'm sure some port-hp300 can answer on the scsi question?

> the right instructions. I did however get my 425 to boot off of a 
> scsi zip drive. 100 Meg holds the system, but the only way I could
> get a disklabel on it was the standalone install program over the
> network from another machine. The normal disklabel program is
> too "smart" to allow me to do it for some reason. I had thought 
> that was fixed from reading this mailling list in the past. 
> My thanks go to Jason Thorpe, whose name appears all over the
> place on the hp300 port, and I'm sure that there are MANY others
> who also contribute that I just haven't noticed.
> /usr/src. I ftped that over also and it was a major clue.

	If you can report exactly what you did & the error receieved
	then someone may be able to help more!


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