>Date: Sat, 26 Jan 2002 21:58:55 -0500 (EST)
>From: Christopher John Thomas <christopher.thomas@rogers.com>
>
>On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, maximum entropy wrote:
>
>> I really wish someone would put together a working dreamcast snapshot,
>> in its entirety, with a working kernel, userland and support files.
>> It would probably save everyone else a lot of grief.
>
>  It would, and it has been suggested many times before.
>
>  It presumably hasn't been done because people lack the bandwidth to host
>images for the world to download, or the expertise to make the images, or
>the time to keep the images up to date, or the altruism to bother, or a
>combination of the above.

Bandwidth isn't an issue.  The snapshot should go in
ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/dreamcast/snapshot/.  That
directory has been there for quite some time, but I don't think it has
ever actually contained anything.

>  If you feel strongly enough about this to make it happen, find a person
>or collection of people with these requirements who are willing to do it
>(e.g. maybe one to produce snapshots and one to host them).

OK, if anyone out there can actually build working Dreamcast
snapshots, please contact me.

>  Are you volunteering to compile/host it? Are you volunteering to hunt
>down people who _would_ do this?

Problem is, I bought an ethernet adapter a few days after the
dreamcast port was announced, but I still have never been able to
actually boot NetBSD/dreamcast.  I've tried at least 5 different
kernels and probably 3 or 4 different userland sets, but never found a
combination where NFS actually worked.  I've pretty much given up in
frustration, but I still hang on to hope that this really isn't some
kind of twisted hoax, and I will someday find a complete snapshot that
really works.

Cheers,
entropy

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