Subject: Re: NetBSD 4.0_BETA iso
To: Geert Hendrickx <ghen@NetBSD.org>
From: Peter I. Hansen <pih@xbase.dk>
List: netbsd-users
Date: 09/07/2006 16:55:25
Geert Hendrickx wrote:
> On Thu, Sep 07, 2006 at 04:27:30PM +0200, Peter Ibsen Hansen wrote:
>> Hello
>>
>> I was looking for the iso image announced in:
>>
>> http://mail-index.netbsd.org/netbsd-announce/2006/08/25/0000.html
>>
>> But, it does not seem to be in the mentioned location:
>>
>> ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-4/200608230000Z/iso/
>>
>> Was it removed for a reason?
>
> That build has been auto-pruned in the meanwhile (to save diskspace).
> There are newer builds available, but without ISO's because those are not
> created automatically (riz created them manually for his announcement
> mail).
>
> However you can create your own ISO's with mkisofs (from pkgsrc) if you
> download the sets + (for i386) boot-big.fs separately.
>
Why not autobuild it, and just have the latest build available?
Mirror diskspace could be saved by making it a torrent only...