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From: michaelv@iastate.edu (Michael L. VanLoon)
Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.questions
Subject: Re: NetBSD location and questions
Date: 27 Jun 94 17:09:52 GMT
Organization: Iowa State University, Ames, Iowa
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In <199406271612.AA04084@elf.wang.com> forrie@wang.com (Forrest Aldrich) writes:
>I've been unable to get to sun-lamp.cs.berkeley.edu for some time... what's
>the deal?
Sun-lamp is also the core development machine for NetBSD, and can
sometimes be down for awhile when they're doing work on it, or if it
crashes while nobody is physically near it, since it usually is set up
(I assume) to dump into the kernel debugger rather than just reboot,
if it crashes. And, when it's up, it only has a ftp limit of
something like 3 or 6 concurrent users, since this is the machine
people are trying to do real work on.
Ftp.iastate.edu is one of many official mirrors of sun-lamp. All
NetBSD source and binaries are available there.
>I'm interested in installing NetBSD on a PC to test the OS out. However,
>after going through the FAQ, I'm a bit lost.
Have you read the NetBSD INSTALL notes? You should print the INSTALL
notes out for reference while installing the system. If you read them
thoroughly, you will be enlightened. :-) (They are in the same place
as the NetBSD-0.9 distribution files.)
>Is there a means by which to install NetBSD via the network?
It's in the INSTALL notes.
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Michael L. VanLoon Iowa State University Computation Center
michaelv@iastate.edu Project Vincent Systems Staff
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