Re: misc/45155 (there are no usb-stick installer images)

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/45155; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
Cc: 
Subject: Re: misc/45155 (there are no usb-stick installer images)
Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 19:39:39 +0000

 On Sat, Feb 11, 2012 at 07:25:02PM +0000, Alan Barrett wrote:
  > The following reply was made to PR misc/45155; it has been noted by GNATS.
  > 
  > From: Alan Barrett <apb%cequrux.com@localhost>
  > To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
  > Cc: 
  > Subject: Re: misc/45155 (there are no usb-stick installer images)
  > Date: Sat, 11 Feb 2012 21:23:08 +0200
  > 
  >  On Sat, 11 Feb 2012, David Holland wrote:
  >  > The point of the PR was that if someone goes to ftp.netbsd.org to look
  >  > for netbsd-6 install materials, they can get an image suitable for a
  >  > usb stick. When I filed it, they had their choice of cdrom or floppies
  >  > only. As far as I can tell, that has not changed.
  >  
  >  build.sh is able to build usb images.  The buildbots apparently don't
  >  run build.sh with the "install-image" target, but that can be changed.
 
 "build.sh release" also does not create usb images:
 
 % ls -l obj.i386/releasedir/i386/installation
 total 16
 drwxr-xr-x  2 dholland  people  512 Feb  5 11:49 cdrom
 drwxr-xr-x  2 dholland  people  512 Feb  5 11:48 floppy
 drwxr-xr-x  2 dholland  people  512 Feb  5 11:48 miniroot
 drwxr-xr-x  2 dholland  people  512 Feb  5 11:49 misc
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost