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Subject: [H-GEN] Bootstrapping NetBSD
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Jason Henry Parker <jasonp at uq.net.au> writes:

> Does anyone have an IDE tape drive they can loan me?  I need to
> reinstall to some other operating system.

Well, here I am.  Two days or so to nuke Linux after backnig up /,
/home and /mnt, another day to install NetBSD proper, and another two
days to come up to speed on its packaging system, which ROCKS MY
WORLD.

Why didn't anyone tell me this was so fugging neat[1]?

jason, emacs and gnus:  check!
       Ogg Vorbis:      check!
       mutt, exim:      check!
       kernel sources under CVS as they bloody well *should be*:
                        CHECK!

[1] : Technically speaking I've run NetBSD before on a pmax, but I
      didn't look into pkgsrc or cvsup, so I missed out.
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