[2029] in NetBSD-Development
Re: snork
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Derek Atkins)
Tue May 8 17:39:45 2001
To: Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU>
Cc: sipb-discussion@MIT.EDU, netbsd-dev@MIT.EDU
From: Derek Atkins <warlord@MIT.EDU>
Date: 08 May 2001 17:38:58 -0400
In-Reply-To: Angie Kelic's message of "Tue, 08 May 2001 15:03:09 -0400"
Message-ID: <sjmn18n8qrx.fsf@rcn.ihtfp.org>
Personally I think having a crash-and-burn machine in the office that
can be used to test installations is a Good Thing (TM). Unfortunately
this tends to require some amount of head-space in the office (Bad
Thing (TM)). I'm not sure how to reconcile these two points.
-derek
Angie Kelic <sly@MIT.EDU> writes:
> I wanted to clarify what the current status of
> snork is, having heard all sorts of interesting
> things about what it is being used as a development
> machine for.
>
> Snork currently has two development projects on it:
>
> NetBSD-athena (which is its default boot state)
> Debian (not sure how active this effort is)
>
> The IS-linux install was a test of the installer
> with a 3c905c network card. Snork was chosen for
> this purpose because it didn't have a network
> card on the motherboard. Basically this results
> in the machine being occasionally (once in the last
> three months, and at least once more in the next
> few weeks) for two hours while an install runs.
>
> If a NetBSD development machine were acquired
> (I will run numbers later this week), I'd like
> some of the netbsd development people to comment
> on what they think should happen to snork as far
> as default boot state and its utility to them goes.
> (since I keep hearing people say it's useless for
> NetBSD development).
>
>
> --Angie
>
>
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