Re: SPARC packages availability for 9.0 and install report

[Tobias Ulmer <tobiasu%tmux.org@localhost>]

On Tue, May 05, 2020 at 01:19:40PM +0200, Riccardo Mottola wrote:
> I had issues with booting: CD-ROMs had issues... with several drives,
> the old ones do not CD-RW but for some reasons I fought also with a
> newer drive Plextor which reads then: I was able to boot NetBSD, but
> then couldn't load the tarballs, getting SCSI erros on esp0.

The original CD drive in my SS20 works fine on 9.0. It's slow (300KB/s)
but steady.

> pkgin addition failed and it is now clear to me: there are no packages
> for 9.0! only for 8.x series....

Yeah, no packages. Build your own :)
You can speed things up significantly using qemu. No need to torture
the real thing.