On 2002.06.29 07:22 Hugh Graham wrote:

> It may not have been apparent to all of you, but for the last couple
> years any attempt I've made to contribute to NetBSD's lists has been
> manually forwarded, often taking days or getting lost, simply because
> of my address.
Grmbl. "I am not amused."

> This selective moderation does not speak well of NetBSD openness,
It simply voilates its own goal of interoperability, as I take this also
in the sense of interoperation of developers. It is simply a sign of a
poor, ignorant mind. 

But now to somthing completely different: I did a cvs update, applied
yor patches, rebuild bootblocks and kernel and - tata:
>>>b
(BOOT/R5:0 DKA100)

  2..
-DKA100
  1..0..


>> NetBSD/vax boot [1.11 Sun Jun 30 19:24:51 CEST 2002] <<
>> Press any key to abort autoboot 0
changing bootrpb.unit from 100 to 1
nfs_open: must mount first.
open netbsd.vax: Device not configured
> boot netbsd
1249260+162872 [123792+87885]=0x18c918
[ using 212212 bytes of netbsd ELF symbol table ]
Copyright (c) 1996, 1997, 1998, 1999, 2000, 2001, 2002
    The NetBSD Foundation, Inc.  All rights reserved.
Copyright (c) 1982, 1986, 1989, 1991, 1993
    The Regents of the University of California.  All rights reserved.

NetBSD 1.6B (MrPomeroy) #0: Sun Jun 30 21:48:50 CEST 2002
    jkunz@MrPomeroy:/usr/src/src/sys/arch/vax/compile/MrPomeroy

MicroVAX 3100/m{90,95}
cpu0: KA51, ucode rev 2
total memory = 127 MB
avail memory = 112 MB
using 1663 buffers containing 6652 KB of memory
mainbus0 (root)
ibus0 at mainbus0
ze0 at ibus0
ze0: hardware address 08:00:2b:bc:72:ea
uba0 at ibus0: Q22
vsbus0 at mainbus0
vsbus0: 8K entry DMA SGMAP at PA 0x27000000 (VA 0xa1d6f000)
vsbus0: interrupt mask 0
dz0 at vsbus0 csr 0x25000000 vec 524 ipl 15 maskbit 3
dz0: 4 lines
asc0 at vsbus0 csr 0x26000080 vec 510 ipl 15 maskbit 1
asc0: NCR53C94, 25MHz, SCSI ID 6
asc0: SCSI bus reset
scsibus0 at asc0: 8 targets, 8 luns per target
scsibus0: waiting 2 seconds for devices to settle...
sd0 at scsibus0 target 1 lun 0: <CONNER, CP30540 545MB3.5, B0BC> SCSI2
0/direct fixed
sd0: 520 MB, 2242 cyl, 6 head, 79 sec, 512 bytes/sect x 1065912 sectors
sd0: sync (160.0ns offset 15), 8-bit (6.250MB/s) transfers, tagged
queueing
sd1 at scsibus0 target 4 lun 0: <DEC, RX26     (C) DEC, 0070> SCSI1
0/direct removable
sd1: drive offline
sd1: async, 8-bit transfers
st0 at scsibus0 target 5 lun 0: <EXABYTE, EXB-8505DGBANXS1, 07T0> SCSI2
1/sequential removable
st0: density code 21, variable blocks, write-enabled
st0: sync (200.0ns offset 11), 8-bit (5.000MB/s) transfers
boot device: sd0
root on sd0a dumps on sd0b
root file system type: ffs
/etc/rc.conf is not configured.  Multiuser boot aborted.
Enter pathname of shell or RETURN for sh:  
We recommend creating a non-root account and using su(1) for root
access.
# 

Now I will mount that 4GB disk in that machine so that I can use it to
store the NetBSD source and provide netboot facilitys to my network. :-)

So I have to say:

dd if=/dev/vbeer bs=1barrel count=10 | uuencode | mail -s "Thanks Hugh"
hugh@openbsd.org

:-)))
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tschüß,
         Jochen

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