Subject: Re: Working Dreamcast images.
To: Christopher John Thomas <christopher.thomas@rogers.com>
From: Drew P. Vogel <dvogel@intercarve.net>
List: port-dreamcast
Date: 01/27/2002 02:25:51
I definitely have the space and bandwidth to host the images. I could also
build the images. Unfortuneately, I lack the machinery to do this (ie: my
cd burner went to crap and I have no BBA for the DC, so I could not test
them). At the moment, I also lack a *BSD machine.
--Drew Vogel
On Sat, 26 Jan 2002, Christopher John Thomas wrote:
>
>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.
>
>
> 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).
>
>
> I have the time, but neither the expertise or the hosting ability
>(remember, it's many tens of megabytes a pop for *each* download). So I'm
>out.
>
>
> Are you volunteering to compile/host it? Are you volunteering to hunt
>down people who _would_ do this?
>
>
> Points to ponder, at any rate :).
>
>Ttyl,
> -Christopher Thomas
>
>