At 02:47 PM 5/25/2000 -0400, NetBSD Bob wrote:
>GREAT!  KUDOS!  and other assorted niceties......(:+}}... on that cdimage.iso
>thingie.  That is exactly what I have been looking for, since my home net
>is not on the internet, and I have to ferry things back and forth to play.
>When I get home, tonight, it will get shovelled into the first VAX I stumble
>across....(:+}}...
>
> > Nothing.  The cd contains an INSTALL kernel with a ramdisk with sysinst on
> > it.  it also includes all the subsets in my 20000517 snapshot (which also
> > includes the X subsets).  It does not, however, contain any sources.
>
>Foot in mouth light-bulb flashing propellerheaded-beanie dunce mode now.....
>
>What about the possibility of rolling into it just sufficient sys.tar.gz
>sources to allow fiddling with the kernel, in the same iso image.
>The sys tarball would add 18 megs more to its size, but might be a
>welcome addition, for some of us (would the config and top-level tarballs
>also be needed?) that could use a coherent matched source/binary set,
>along the development stream.

Note this is just I needed to build for someone else.  I thought of
including more but I just wanted a cut image.  But this is just a stepping
stone.  The goal for me is that when the real 1.5-release CD comes out, one
of the architectures it will be bootable on will be VAX.  There's still a
bit of work to be done to get that done.

>My reasoning behind querying this is that having at least the minimal
>kernel tarball sources handy, would make an even playing field from
>which to work the system up for play and testing.  In my case, for
>example, my sources usually lag a week behind the binaries, which
>can lead to a bit of instability across my machines.  Having a least
>common denominator matched source/binary set all in one place, would
>be a nice feature.

That would be nice.  But for that, I'd probably include a couple more
architectures (alpha, arm32, i386, macppc, pmax, sparc, and vax) and
make a more complete CD image including a full anoncvs snapshot of
src, pkgsrc, and xsrc.

>Would that be an unreasonable expectation, perhaps, if we were already
>going to the trouble to roll a CD or image.fs thing of 50mb size anyway?
>Another 20mb should not make that much difference....

Not really, but I'd just rather do a more complete job of it since I
deal with more than VAXen.

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