Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 RC4 isos for download (was: Re: newbie with pkgsrc)
To: Timo =?ISO-8859-1?Q?Sch=F6ler?= <eclipser23@web.de>
From: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@gmx.info>
List: current-users
Date: 10/21/2004 16:16:46
You can download RC4 iso's from here: 
 
http://www.tastylime.net/netbsd/ 
 
 
> >>> How do I go about "upgrading" from 1.6.2 to 2.0_RC4 and the  
> >>> pkgsrc-2004Q3 branch ?   Or can I get ISO images for 2.0_RC4 from  
> >>> somewhere ? 
> >> 
> >> take a look at ftp://releng.netbsd.org -- but as i tried it just  
> >> seconds ago it was not reachable?! 
> >> 
> >> alternatively, you can check out CVS: 'cvs co -r netbsd-2-0-RC4 -PA  
> >> src' 
> > 
> > Oh, and by the way, that was a 'No, we don't offer ISO images of the  
> > RC versions anywhere' 
> > 
> > this is one thing that I've asked about before and gotten either 
> > a. nothing 
> > b. told to do something else instead. 
> > 
> > back during RC1, I actually went ahead and built the entire bit from  
> > source and did the make an ISO image thing for Sparc64, and it was  
> > well received by a number of people happy to have it.  I'm surprised  
> > that this simple convenience is STILL BEING IGNORED by the NetBSD  
> > release team. 
>  
> hi, 
>  
> i just put my DVD-RAM with my iso's into my G4 and am right now pumping  
> up a few to my webserver... 
>  
> these are iso-images for hardware of customers, friends or mine -- so  
> they are (partly) optimized to a certain architecture (via CFLAGS). 
>  
> the images: 
>  
> -current-macppc-nox-optimized-20041005.iso (-current from 5th oct 2004,  
> optimized for G4/7400, no X) 
>  
> 2.0RC4-amiga-68060opt-withX.iso (Amiga w/68060 CPU, with X) 
>  
> 2.0RC4-amiga68040opt-withX.iso (dito for 68040) 
>  
> 2.0RC4-i386-P2mmxopt-withx.iso (for Pentium II machines, with X) 
>  
> 2.0RC4-i386-nox-p2mmx_optimized.iso (dito w/o X) 
>  
> sparc and sparc64 just building (hope they go thru). 
>  
> as soon as the images are on the server, you'll get the URLs (sometime  
> tonite). 
>  
> please feel free to get this into torrent -- unfortunately, i do not  
> have that much time now... :( 
>  
> HTH, 
>  
> --  
> mit vorzüglichster Hochachtung/best regards, 
>  
> Timo Schöler 
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