On Sun, 2 Nov 1997, Andrew Diller wrote:
> What exactly is the relationship between a current kernel and 1.3a???

According to http://www.netbsd.org/Releases/current.html:

     NetBSD-current is a daily snapshot of the NetBSD development source
     tree. Because it is ``work in progress,'' it may not be particularly
     well tested, and it may not even compile. People developing drivers
     and other system-level software for NetBSD are encouraged to run
     NetBSD-current, as are people who want to be on the bleeding edge of
     NetBSD development. If you're just using NetBSD for day-to-day work,
     you should probably be running a formal release of NetBSD instead.

1.3_alpha is NetBSD-current, but the features have been frozen in
preparation for the 1.3 release. In general, only bugfixes will be made to
it. 

> For instance, 1.3a doesn't boot on my 605 or my cx w/ Daystar 040. What can
> I do to try and make these work?? Should I try different current kernels,
> or are they already 'beyond' 1.3a ?? Should I look for the 1.3a kernel src
> and try compiling different options on it in the hopes that it may work on
> one of my machines? The 605 I doubt-- but the cx almost boots all the way
> up... something in the scsi locks it up when its tries to check the file
> system on boot.

1.3_alpha is the most recent stuff us normal folks have access to
right now...

As for getting your machines to work, you can try different kernels,
although I don't know if you'll have any more luck with them. If
you're able to compile kernels, you can get the source and try to get
it to work that way. The 1.3_alpha source is at
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/NetBSD-current/tar_files/src/sys.tar.gz
(and is really huge, since it includes the source for all the other
machines NetBSD supports too).

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