[1754] in NetBSD-Development
Re: Machines for the Midway
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue Sep 1 10:55:05 1998
To: "Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU>
Cc: netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU, linux-dev@MIT.EDU, sepherke@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 01 Sep 1998 10:54:50 -0400
In-Reply-To: "Nathan J. Williams"'s message of Mon, 31 Aug 1998 23:02:01 EDT
Actually, Snork is (supposedly) running the newest Linux-Athena.
Perhaps you could use snork as the Linux-Athena machine and use zorp
as the NetBSD-Athena machine? This way nothing would need to be
reinstalled.
-derek
"Nathan J. Williams" <nathanw@MIT.EDU> writes:
>
>
> The midway sucker, sepherke, wanted to have one NetBSD-Athena
> and one Linux-Athena machine at the midway tomorrow afternoon. We have
> plenty of office NetBSD machines for the purpose, but the one official
> Linux machine in the office, cutter-john, has been deemed nearly unfit
> for transport[1]. The current plan is to take snorklewacker to
> demonstrate NetBSD-Athena, and to take planet-zorp, reinstalled with
> Linux-Athena, to demonstrate Linux-Athena. I'm planning to reinstall
> planet-zorp with the new NetBSD-Athena release anyway, so blowing away
> the current contens isn't a problem. I'm also not worried about the
> loss of a (slow!) build machine for a few hours during R/O.
>
> Next year, netbsd-dev and linux-dev should be more proactive
> in picking machines to send to the midway and communicating to the
> midway sucker about it.
>
> - Nathan
>
> [1] This sucks. Someone want to fix it?
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