Subject: Re: NetBSD 2.0 RC4 isos for download (was: Re: newbie with pkgsrc)
To: Zafer Aydogan <zafer@gmx.info>
From: Dave McGuire <mcguire@neurotica.com>
List: port-sparc64
Date: 10/21/2004 14:39:41
   Well, the PC isos anyway. :-/  Thanks anyway though.

        -Dave

On Oct 21, 2004, at 10:16 AM, Zafer Aydogan wrote:
> You can download RC4 iso's from here:
>
> http://www.tastylime.net/netbsd/
>
>
>>>>> How do I go about "upgrading" from 1.6.2 to 2.0_RC4 and the
>>>>> pkgsrc-2004Q3 branch ?   Or can I get ISO images for 2.0_RC4 from
>>>>> somewhere ?
>>>>
>>>> take a look at ftp://releng.netbsd.org -- but as i tried it just
>>>> seconds ago it was not reachable?!
>>>>
>>>> alternatively, you can check out CVS: 'cvs co -r netbsd-2-0-RC4 -PA
>>>> src'
>>>
>>> Oh, and by the way, that was a 'No, we don't offer ISO images of the
>>> RC versions anywhere'
>>>
>>> this is one thing that I've asked about before and gotten either
>>> a. nothing
>>> b. told to do something else instead.
>>>
>>> back during RC1, I actually went ahead and built the entire bit from
>>> source and did the make an ISO image thing for Sparc64, and it was
>>> well received by a number of people happy to have it.  I'm surprised
>>> that this simple convenience is STILL BEING IGNORED by the NetBSD
>>> release team.

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