Subject: Re: Testers needed for upcoming 3.1 release
To: netbsd-macppc macppc <port-macppc@NetBSD.org>
From: David Young <dyoung@pobox.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 09/25/2006 19:13:03
On Mon, Sep 25, 2006 at 07:04:31PM -0500, David Young wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 05, 2006 at 03:47:08PM -0400, Michael Lorenz wrote:
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> > Hello,
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> > please download the release candidate iso image here
> > ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-3-1-RC2/200609031430Z/iso/
> > and test it ( does it boot, does the installer work properly if you
> > happen to have a partition you can wipe, etc. )
> > Right now I have only an iBook G4 ( works fine ) and a beige G3 ( known
> > to be troublesome ) to test so please try it on different hardware and
> > report failures, successes and so on.
>
> I just booted the RC3 ISO on my 450 MHz Powerbook G4. I've *never*
> been able to boot a NetBSD CD-ROM on this machine before, so clearly
> NetBSD 3.1 is doing something right! Both wi0 and gem0 were detected.
I forgot to mention, I used 'boot cd:ofwboot.xcf netbsd.macppc' at the
OpenFirmware prompt.
Dave
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