On Jun 20, 12:18pm, mason@acheron.middleboro.ma.us (Mason Loring Bliss) wrote:
-- Subject: Re: Current Kernel build fails on IPX

| On Sat, Jun 19, 1999 at 08:15:27PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
| 
| > I think that the problem is with the boot blocks. Paul fixed a problem
| > with the boot blocks, but I don't remember him making any newer snapshots.
| 
| Hm... Okay. I was just about to try to take my new SS10 from 1.3.3 to 1.4C.
| Should I take this as an indication that I shouldn't do this at present? I
| was initially going to go to 1.4, but then I noticed that SPARC-current has
| moved to ELF, so I figured I'd skip the interim step.
| 
| What would be suggested at the moment? Is there any way I can maybe cross-
| compile from my i386 to SPARC to make my own snapshot? I see nothing in
| pkgsrc that seems appropriate, if my understanding that stuff like the
| sparc-netbsdelf package is meant for sparc-aout systems...
| 

Wait until someone builds a snapshot, or build an a.out kernel, then
install the snapshot sans boot blocks and kernel cvs update and make build.

christos