Rafal, et al,

> In message <200111121730.fACHUmZ29037@mrynet.com>, you write: 
> 
> -> I've succeeded in building NetBSD/sgimips ram filesystem kernel,
> -> sysinst, installation disk images and a bootable cdimage for 
> -> installation.  I'm testing all of this as-we-speak.
> 
> Wow, cool!  The beer's in the mail!

Thanks for the gesture :)

> -> I'd like to ensure that I'm not duplicating anyone's efforts 
> -> before I make any of this available.
> 
> I haven't heard of anyone working on this, but then I hadn't heard
> of your efforts until now 8-)

I only started on this a couple of weeks ago as time permitted.
Since I hadn't seen any list mail regarding installation processes,
I took it on.  Nonetheless, I needed to ensure I wasn't toe-stepping.

> -> I hope to have things "alpha" tested by this next weekend
> -> and will put them up for ftp locally (I'm not very involved
> -> with the NetBSD team necessarily).


I'll be making a full RELEASE available tomorrow night of the
following:

mod80# ls -lR
total 4
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 18:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x  19 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 22:07 ../
drwxr-xr-x   4 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 18:34 binary/
drwxr-xr-x   5 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 18:35 installation/

./binary:
total 4
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 18:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 18:34 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 18:55 kernel/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 18:54 sets/

./binary/kernel:
total 1318
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel     512 Nov 12 18:55 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel     512 Nov 12 18:34 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      49 Nov 12 18:54 BSDSUM
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      65 Nov 12 18:54 CKSUM
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel     111 Nov 12 18:54 MD5
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel      50 Nov 12 18:54 SYSVSUM
-r-xr-xr-x  1 root  wheel  665387 Nov 12 18:38 install.gz*
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  653352 Nov 12 18:36 netbsd.GENERIC.gz

./binary/sets:
total 51526
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel       512 Nov 12 18:54 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel       512 Nov 12 18:34 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       158 Nov 12 18:54 BSDSUM
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       220 Nov 12 18:54 CKSUM
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       399 Nov 12 18:54 MD5
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       160 Nov 12 18:54 SYSVSUM
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  22168619 Nov 12 18:44 base.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  15825220 Nov 12 18:49 comp.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    108061 Nov 12 18:49 etc.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   3196909 Nov 12 18:50 games.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel    653470 Nov 12 18:35 kern.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   6515924 Nov 12 18:52 man.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   2311147 Nov 12 18:53 misc.tgz
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel   1851476 Nov 12 18:54 text.tgz

./installation:
total 5
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 18:35 ./
drwxr-xr-x  4 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 18:34 ../
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 19:34 diskimage/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 19:30 miniroot/
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel  512 Nov 12 19:36 netboot/

./installation/diskimage:
total 3738
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 Nov 12 19:34 ./
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel      512 Nov 12 18:35 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  3145728 Nov 12 19:35 diskimage
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   663083 Nov 12 18:37 diskimage.gz

./installation/miniroot:
total 1790
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 Nov 12 19:30 ./
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel      512 Nov 12 18:35 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       26 Nov 12 19:30 BSDSUM
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       34 Nov 12 19:30 CKSUM
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       56 Nov 12 19:30 MD5
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel       26 Nov 12 19:30 SYSVSUM
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  1818353 Nov 12 19:30 miniroot.fs.gz

./installation/netboot:
total 3690
drwxr-xr-x  2 root  wheel      512 Nov 12 19:36 ./
drwxr-xr-x  5 root  wheel      512 Nov 12 18:35 ../
-rw-r--r--  1 root  wheel  2897920 Nov 12 19:36 diskimage
-r--r--r--  1 root  wheel   852858 Nov 12 18:37 diskimage.tgz

I'll ask that anyone able to test/expose any of this consider
it EXTREMELY "alpha" quality, as I've only been able to install
and test on my own machine, and I hardly consider that any kind
of quality exposure.

The porting and testing I've accomplished was performed on
an INDY R5K only.  I have no other equipment personally.  I'm 
checking around at work to see what spare O2's, Onyxs and
Indigos, etc,  I can get access to.  It'd be fun to port 
NetBSD/sgimips to the O2K's, but Fat Chance getting a 
production machine for that purpose.

> -> Does anyone with commit privs and access to the NetBSD site
> -> have time to work with me on any possible submissions of 
> -> changes and FTP files to the NetBSD/sgimips project?  I
> -> could really use some help and guidance with how to submit
> -> work I've done.
> 
> The first thing to do is file your changes as a PR.  This way,
> regardless of people's time/interest/... constraints, you know
> it won't fall through the cracks.
> 
> That said, I'll give you a yell off-list and we should be able
> to coordinate something.... I've been busy and think it's about
> to get worse, but it would be real shame to pass up some real
> install tools!

Will do.  Thanks for your help and encouragement.

And, if anyone has difficulties replying to me directly, please
note:  I blackhole a great deal of countries and domains due to
SPAM.  I have opened up a separate machine temporarily to allow
unrestricted email.  The address for this mailbox is:
	sgimips AT smedley DOT mrynet DOT com
You'll need to edit appropriately.

Regards,
Scott G. Taylor