On Thursday 29 September 2005 04:31, Bernd Sieker wrote: > On 28.09.05, 16:31:55, sudog wrote: > > I'm sitting on -current 3.99.7. Perhaps that's part of it. > > You're brave. -current for a production system?
:-) This is a desktop which I use for development work, and as a.. er.. desktop. I've found that keeping up with -current makes things a lot simpler. I need the features they put in there. It's not a server or anything that other people depend on, of course. > > Anyway thanks for the note. Now I know it's possible, I just have > > to keep at it. It's just a matter of time I suppose. > > My only NetBSD-current systems are Suns, so I can't say anything > about whether that works. My other system I run Realsoft3D on is > an SGI Octane, but that's somewhat lagged version-wise. The user > base is very small. > > Good luck figuring it out. > > Maybe installing 2.0 (or the upcoming 2.1) on a production machine > sounds like a good idea. Yea, maybe I'll put all that stuff in a chroot and try running it from there. I don't imagine there's a problem with the kernel itself.. hrm. If (when?) I do get this mofo fixed up, I'll be sure to post my results. Thanks for letting me know it can be done! That, itself, was tremendously helpful.
