On Wed, Sep 11, 2002 at 09:15:19PM +0200, Xavier de Labouret wrote: > 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?
Nope. Your best bet is to get the install floppies from http://www.srcf.ucam.org/debian-netbsd/floppies/ - they'll install a (roughly) working system. > 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. Now that the install floppies work, it's probably not necessary. The chroot method of dealing with things was a bit of a hack. > 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?) Yes. Read the list, try to rebuild packages, suggest ways of making things that don't work work :) -- Matthew Garrett | [EMAIL PROTECTED]
