Date: Fri, 03 Sep 1999 17:25:39 -0600 From: Wes Peters <wes@softweyr.com> To: "Jordan K. Hubbard" <jkh@zippy.cdrom.com> Cc: Ross Harvey <ross@teraflop.com>, freebsd-sparc@FreeBSD.ORG, core@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: Re: Status of FBSD sparc porting? Message-ID: <37D058F3.916152B2@softweyr.com> References: <60435.936306438@localhost>
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"Jordan K. Hubbard" wrote:
>
> I think I speak for all of us when I say that we respect what NetBSD
> has done in porting BSD to every platform under the sun (no pun
> intended)
...and several on which the sun will never shine... ;^)
> and we'd never judge an entire architecture port simply
> based on a new and experimental installer.
And hope that others will cut us the same slack.
> I also won't say that this will never happen again since we just don't
> have that much control over our developers (nor, I believe, do any of
> the various OS projects) but you may take it as read that none of the
> people "in power" in FreeBSD have any desire to foster poor relations
> by badmouthing the others; there's been far too much of that already.
> Please accept our apologies for this latest outburst.
I've installed NetBSD 1.4 on two IPX's and a half dozen 5's and had no
problems at all. It never occurred to me to attempt to boot from a
CD-ROM or a floppy; I just use the miniroot install the way God@sun.com
intended. ;^)
Now NetBSD 1.4.1 on a Mac G3? That's a different #(%$U*!#ing struggle.
--
"Where am I, and what am I doing in this handbasket?"
Wes Peters Softweyr LLC
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