Subject: Re: NetBSD 3.0 restore CD
To: None <port-cobalt@netbsd.org>
From: Janko Knops <polthemol@home.nl>
List: port-cobalt
Date: 01/03/2006 22:42:04
Claudio Leiva S schreef:

> Rowdy:
>
> I just finish with the download, I put the files on.
>
> http://cleiva.no-ip.org/restorecd3/
>
> Please post in the group.
>
> Thanks.
>
>
> Claudio Leiva S.
> Las Vegas, Nevada.
> USA
> http://cleiva.no-ip.org
> (Powered by NetBSD for Cobalt)
>
>
>> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rowdy" <rowdy@netspace.net.au>
>> To: <cleivas@cox.net>; <listbox@unix-boy.com>
>> Cc: <daniel@presscom.net>
>> Sent: Tuesday, January 03, 2006 2:05 AM
>> Subject: NetBSD 3.0 restore CD
>>
>>
>>> Claudio/Jeremy,
>>>
>>> You have both kindly offered to host the 3.0 restore CD, and I am 
>>> pleased to say that, with Daniel's help in testing and hosting, the 
>>> file is now available.
>>>
>>> It took just over 3 hours for Daniel to grab it from my server, but 
>>> he is now hosting it at the following sites, and you should be able 
>>> to grab a copy much faster from one of those:
>>>
>>> http://netbsd.ouellet.biz/
>>> http://openbsdsupport.org/netbsd/
>>>
>>> Daniel has identified a possible rare RAIDframe issue that was 
>>> present in the 2.0 restore CD, but affects a minority of users, and 
>>> also reported that on at least some of his Raqs after install and 
>>> after reboot they were unable to grab an IP address from DHCP, and 
>>> the LCD showed "Unknown Host" and "[0.0.0.0]", requiring login via 
>>> the serial port to complete the installation.  I did not have that 
>>> problem with my Qube 2.  He has also reported that paneld still 
>>> occupies an inordinate amount of CPU resource - the historical 
>>> recommendation to disable it still stands.
>>>
>>> The file is a .tgz containing the ISO, a MD5, a readme, and the 
>>> GENERIC and INSTALL kernel config files.  I compiled the boot loader 
>>> from the 3.0 sources, and everything else, including kernels, comes 
>>> straight from the official NetBSD 3.0 release.
>>>
>>> If it is still ok, could you both grab a copy of the file, put it on 
>>> your servers, and let me know the address where they are, then I 
>>> will post an announcement to the newsgroup.
>>>
>>> Thankyou again for you help, suggestions and hosting offers.
>>>
>>> Rowdy
>>>
>
>
>
I'm grabbing the dir and will host a mirror as soon as all the files are 
stored on my server (have about 80 / 100 K/s upload and can maybe also 
arrange a 100mbit server to mirror, have to check on how much traffic I 
have left on that one).

Cheers,

Janko