At 4:16 PM 11/22/95, John P. Wittkoski wrote:
>[ In a fit of frustration, Shawn said: ]

No kidding!

>Shawn,
>You don't need to yell. The people on this list _are_ trying to help.
>What you have already been told by other members on this list is correct.
>You missed the fact that the Installer installs snapshots onto a disk prepared
>for NetBSD, even if it did not previously have a NetBSD system running on it.
>
>A snapshot is simply a compressed tar file (like file.tar.gz). You need to
>install at least two of the snapshots, base.tar.gz and etc.tar.gz plus a
>kernel snapshot to get NetBSD running. For a full system, there are additional
>snapshots.

Thanks.

>And if you don't like the current status of the docs/mirror sites/whatever,
>feel free to donate your time as others on this list do to support the effort.
>Everyone here knows there can be improvements, but most of us have real, paying
>jobs that take up a lot of our time and limit the amount of time free time we
>have to work on NetBSD.
>

Ok, i'll take up trying to upkeep the docs.  I just need to know what is
going on so that I _can_ update them.

Sorry about the yelling thing.

Don't count me out of the picture either - I'm working on another project
of Allen's, a database of all MacBSD systems in the world, used via puma's
web pages.  It's just taking me some time too.  (I know what its like to
not have time too.)  ;)


Shawn.

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