On Jun 29, 2004, at 2:43 PM, Paul Frommeyer wrote:

> In reply to your message of Mon, 28 Jun 2004 17:59:29 PDT:
>
> Rolling up some more feedback:

<massive snip>

> But I'm totally digressing. With apologies for any bruised toes from my
> editorializing and again, many many thanks for the assistance,

Here's the deal.  You wouldn't need to do a toolchain build if you 
didn't get new src.  You could simply use the make, cc, and config on 
your currently running system (just as you said you could do with other 
OSs).

If you had installed the src when you had installed your OS, or if you 
would grab the src tarball for 1.6-RELEASE, or if you used cvs to get 
that particular src, you can just cd to 
/usr/src/sys/arch/`machine`/conf, edit your kern conf, config it, cd to 
the compile dir, and make clean && make depend && make && cp /netbsd 
/netbsd.old && cp netbsd /netbsd && shutdown -r now

-finis

my first suggestion (the -t) was so you could build toolchain since you 
had *new* src.

anyways, good luck with netbsd, i think if you keep fooling around with 
it, and learn more about it, you will see that it is an OUTSTANDING 
operating system, and that it is a joy to maintain.

./muk

-- 
m. kolb  <muk@msu.edu>