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Re: helper images "DCburn" and "DCserv" for NetBSD/dreamcast 7.0



On Fri, Nov 27, 2015 at 6:20 AM, Izumi Tsutsui <tsutsui%ceres.dti.ne.jp@localhost> wrote:
> I wrote:
>
>> NetBSD 5.1 has been announced, but I guess there are still
>> two annoying procedures for ordinary users to try NetBSD/dreamcast:
>>
>>  - Create a bootable CD-R with NetBSD/dreamcast kernel
>>  - Setup NFS/DHCP server for diskless dreamcast client
>>
>> To make these procedures easier, I've created two pre-built
>> NetBSD/i386 disk images, "DCburn" and "DCserv":
>>  http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/dreamcast/dcburn/
>>  http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/dreamcast/dcserv/
>>
>> "DCburn" image provides easy setup to burn
>> bootable CD-R for NetBSD/dreamcast.
>>
>> "DCserv" image provides easy setup for NetBSD/dreamcast
>> which requires "root file system on NFS" environment to boot.
>>
>> All things you need to use these images are
>> to write each image to a USB flash memory,
>> put it on your x86 PC bootable from USB,
>> and type a few commands on NetBSD prompt.
>
> I've uploaded updated dcburn/dcserv images for NetBSD/dreamcast 7.0.
>
> See README files for details:
>  http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/dreamcast/dcburn/README.txt
>  http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/dreamcast/dcserv/README.txt
>
> "Happy 17th Birthday, Dreamcast!"
>  http://kotaku.com/happy-17th-birthday-sega-dreamcast-1744837431
>  https://twitter.com/tsutsuii/status/669894218643431424
>  https://twitter.com/tsutsuii/status/669899565504462848

Thanks for this Izumi. Hopefully I can find time to try this. I
haven't booted my Dreamcast in many years.

Andy


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