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At 19:08 2/12/2001 +1000, you wrote:
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>Jason Henry Parker <jasonp at uq.net.au> writes:
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> > 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.

I tried NetBSD last year after breaking RedHat for the umpteenth time on my 
gateway. I couldn't get it to boot, even after removing lilo. It wouldn't 
boot off a bootdisk/cd either. I found the instructions rather unclear.

However, kernel source on cvs sounds great. I agree that it should be that 
way for all *nix systems. having to download entire source, unarchive etc 
or download and patch is such a pain in the rearend. In fact I find it so 
painful on my 586 that I compile new kernels as infrequently as possible. 
But what really bugs me is that I can't fit the source into the 60 or so 
meg that the hard drive has free. We've taken to compiling a deb on a 
higher end system when all we want to do is patch the source and let the 
compile run overnight.

Anyone know if cvs kernel source is coming to linux?

Sandra.

silne at optushome.com.au
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