On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 09:15:19PM +0200, Xavier de Labouret wrote: > > Hi, > > I would like to start testing Debian/NetBSD. > > 1) What is the best way to start from scratch? Is the chroot tarball > available on www.debian.org still the best way to step in, followed by an > apt-get update/dist-upgrade?
Sort of. There isn't really a lot that's apt-gettable, and the chroot tarball is based on a now-outdated release. I'm currently working on building a system based on the just-tagged 1.6 release, and hoping to release it as soon as it has basically all of the packages marked either Essential: yes or Priority: required. > 2) Would it be interesting to generate a new chroot tarball, maybe on a > regular basis? If so i would be happy to do it myself, even if i could > need just a little help in this task. I intend to update the apt archive at debian-bsd.lightbearer.com once the above project is done. > 3) I have been using Debian Linux for some years, Linux for more, and am > still a little new to NetBSD. Is there any way i can concretely help this > project (apart from using Debian/NetBSD on a regular basis?) Use it. Work on porting packages, work in teams if you need help doing that for a bit, to get experience. Fair warning, things are still very primitive, even with all the efforts; a great many Debian packages need serious patching to build, and we aren't really a well-'recognized' port (I've had at least a couple of people refuse to patch based on us not being a 'real port' yet). You should also look into the Debian/NetBSD install disks that were posted a bit back (check the archives). They're probably the easiest way to get a new system up and running, even minimally, unless you're experienced with working in system chroots already. -- *************************************************************************** Joel Baker System Administrator - lightbearer.com [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://users.lightbearer.com/lucifer/
