It would be really great to get a Live cd to check out. Unfortunately
I live in South Africa
where the bandwidth is... Lets say lacking at best. At home I have
56Kb dialup and
at work only adsl, with a 3G cap! That still cost 1/7 of a months salary :|

Since I did download the amd64 iso of 2.0. I'll install this on my 20G slice.

Thanks for all the info guys.

regards.


On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 16:09:37 -0700, Andy Ruhl <acruhl@gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 14:49:05 -0800, Andrew Gillham <gillham@gmail.com> wrote:
> > On Wed, 26 Jan 2005 11:01:02 +0200, Rand Acs <randacs@gmail.com> wrote:
> > >
> > > I have a 20Gb slice that I test some FreeBSD stuff on. I think that
> > > will go towards
> > > testing and getting NetBSD to run. I see that you talk about DMA
> > > support for IDE.
> > > Does this mean that there is SATA support as well. I'm very ignorant
> > > in this area.
> >
> > Yes, the SATA controllers are supported and the latest -current
> > (development branch of the source code) has DMA support.
> >
> > > But learning this type of things this year at uni :) Can someone maybe elaborate
> > > a bit on how this works?
> >
> > Which parts exactly?  The NetBSD guide http://www.netbsd.org/guide/en/
> > is a good place to start for information on NetBSD itself.
> >
> > I think Richard Rauch's suggestion of trying out the NetBSD Live! CD
> > is excellent and would give you an opportunity to test more of your
> > hardware as well.  If you have a cheap USB ethernet adapater handy
> > that would be a good way to get basic network connectivity while
> > testing it out.
> >
> > > As soon as my test starts I'll post problems to the list. Who else
> > > would be useful
> > > to inform?
> >
> > This list is good for AMD64 related questions, otherwise
> > netbsd-help@netbsd.org is better for general NetBSD questions.  I
> > recommend reading through the guide first, or at least doing a quick
> > skim for content to make sure you question isn't already well
> > documented.
> 
> Is there an amd64 live CD though? I thought there was only an i386
> one. That would be nice for looking at what drivers are attaching, but
> it's no good for troubleshooting amd64 stuff...
> 
> Andy
>