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Path: sserve!newshost.anu.edu.au!harbinger.cc.monash.edu.au!msuinfo!agate!howland.reston.ans.net!math.ohio-state.edu!magnus.acs.ohio-state.edu!csn!yuma!lamar.ColoState.EDU!sandylam From: sandylam@lamar.ColoState.EDU (Sandy Lam) Newsgroups: comp.os.386bsd.development Subject: Re: NetBSD-1.0 - WHEN? Date: 20 Sep 1994 19:15:21 GMT Organization: Colorado State University, Fort Collins, CO 80523 Lines: 28 Message-ID: <35ncc9$34dv@yuma.ACNS.ColoState.EDU> References: <199408172054.PAA07862@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <356m8j$n1f@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> <MICHAELV.94Sep14133142@MindBender.HeadCandy.com> <35impn$63q@cleese.apana.org.au> <1994Sep20.134745.15198@ccc.amdahl.com> NNTP-Posting-Host: lamar.acns.colostate.edu X-Newsreader: TIN [version 1.2 PL2] Alistair G. Crooks (azcb0@ccc.amdahl.com) wrote: : In article <35impn$63q@cleese.apana.org.au> jj@seldon.apanix.apana.org.au (Lucas James) writes: : >On 14 Sep 1994 18:31:40 GMT, Michael L. VanLoon (michaelv@MindBender.HeadCandy.com) wrote: : >: In article <356m8j$n1f@nntpd.lkg.dec.com> jenkinsj@oils.ozy.dec.com (Jon Jenkins) writes: : >: Hopefully, 1.0 will get released soon so people can start using it. : >: Last I heard, they were predicting imminent release sometime this week : >: or next week. : > : >I heard that (or a similar) statement in mid July. : > : >Is there anyone working on the release could tell us what stage we're at? : I'm not working on the release, but... : The latest NetBSD-current tar_files (Sep 12th) on ftp.iastate.edu : have the distrib.tar.gz tools to produce the installation floppies : So, like Michael says, it won't be long now. this would be a lot cooler if the BINARIES of the install were available somehwere. I can't install FreeBSD on my disk because most of my machines are PCI, which won't work on FreebSD (i've tried). NetBSD worked fine until my disk died. Now i've got the NetBSD- current binaries, and the source to teh install floppies. "what's wrong with this picture?" : And, yes, I've built my own installation floppies, which work. please share (: