Subject: Re: sysinst fixed in NetBSD 3.1, and other news...
To: None <port-mac68k@netbsd.org>
From: Tim & Alethea Larson <thelarsons3@cox.net>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/22/2006 21:25:40
Hauke Fath wrote:
> (1) A few days ago, I finally found time and energy enough to dive into the
> sysinst sources, and actually came back with a fix for the problems sysinst
> had since NetBSD 2 (port-mac/29049). Quite different from my expectations,
> it turned out to be a one-liner... The code that sets up a BSD disklabel
> from the Macintosh partition table 'forgot' to sign up the UFS partitions
> for later newfs'ing and mounting.

Very good news!

> (2) A few days before I managed to fix the mac68k sysinst, I received an
> invitation to become a NetBSD developer - quite a surprise for me at the
> time. Apparently, I had submitted enough PRs, and the guys decided to have
> me fix things myself.  ;)
> 
> Just today I got my account on NetBSD.org, commit bits and all. I shall
> work on pkgsrc, and, of course, mac68k. Let's see what comes of it...

Great news!  Congratulations!


Tim

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