From owner-freebsd-sparc Thu Sep 2 12:53:30 1999 Delivered-To: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org Received: from herring.nlsystems.com (nlsys.demon.co.uk [158.152.125.33]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id C2BB015C0A; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 12:53:21 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Received: from salmon.nlsystems.com (salmon.nlsystems.com [10.0.0.3]) by herring.nlsystems.com (8.9.3/8.8.8) with ESMTP id UAA93754; Thu, 2 Sep 1999 20:54:00 +0100 (BST) (envelope-from dfr@nlsystems.com) Date: Thu, 2 Sep 1999 20:54:00 +0100 (BST) From: Doug Rabson To: Ross Harvey Cc: freebsd-sparc@freebsd.org, core@freebsd.org Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? In-Reply-To: <199909021807.LAA21317@random.teraflop.com> Message-ID: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: TEXT/PLAIN; charset=US-ASCII Sender: owner-freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org On Thu, 2 Sep 1999, Ross Harvey wrote: > obrien@FreeBSD.org writes... > > > Agreed. Their 1.4 USENIX offering is crap. The 1.4 bits wouldn't > > install on two of my Sparcs, nor my pmax boxes. Me thinks NetBSD rushed > > the release a little. > > Hmm, you sign your mail `obrien@FreeBSD.org', so I guess I'll remember your > choice of words next time I need to reference a FreeBSD effort, like, > perhaps the new alpha port. Up to now I've never been in any way critical. > > I'm wondering, did you run the `sysinst' screen-menu installer? I think > that NetBSD/sparc is actually supposed to be installed with the script-based > installer, which WAS shipped with the release. The sysinst program is > completely experimental on sparc, and in hindsight, it should never have > been shipped on the 1.4 USENIX disks. > > However, I'm not sure that the borked sparc installer merits that crude > put-down of the entire release. > > *sniff* Please accept my apologies on Mr. O'Brien's behalf. He in no way represents the FreeBSD Project and you shouldn't take his comments as being from the project. I have great respect for the NetBSD system and have found it an invaluable resource when working on FreeBSD/alpha. -- Doug Rabson Mail: dfr@nlsystems.com Nonlinear Systems Ltd. Phone: +44 181 442 9037 To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-sparc" in the body of the message