Re: misc/45155: there are no usb-stick installer images

[David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>]

The following reply was made to PR misc/45155; it has been noted by GNATS.

From: David Holland <dholland-bugs%netbsd.org@localhost>
To: gnats-bugs%NetBSD.org@localhost
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Subject: Re: misc/45155: there are no usb-stick installer images
Date: Sun, 17 Jul 2011 23:27:59 +0000

 On Sun, Jul 17, 2011 at 07:45:02PM +0000, Martin Husemann wrote:
  >> At least ports for which ~modern hardware exists (i386, amd64,
  >> sparc64, ...) should provide install images for usb sticks, since this
  >  
  >  I'm not aware of any sparc64 firmware version able to boot those - if
  >  anyone knows of such machine/device combinations, please mail me details.
 
 Really? I thought there were relatively recent sparc64 models :-)
 
 anyway, I stand corrected. If booting from USB is really x86-only the
 category should be changed accordingly.
 
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 David A. Holland
 dholland%netbsd.org@localhost