Re: Where is the 11.0 BETA iso file ?

Dennis Clarke <[email protected]> Tue, 4 Nov 2025 19:50:50 -0500
Newsgroups gmane.os.netbsd.ports.sparc64
Organization GENUNIX
Message-ID <[email protected]>
On 11/4/25 04:25, Martin Husemann wrote:
> On Tue, Nov 04, 2025 at 04:16:07AM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>> On 11/3/25 02:25, Martin Husemann wrote:
>>> On Sun, Nov 02, 2025 at 11:43:24PM -0500, Dennis Clarke wrote:
>>>>
>>>> Looking around at https://cdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/ and I do not
>>>> see the beta files.
>>>
>>> https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest/
>>>
>>
>> Right. So no ISO image for install. Got it.
> 
> I am confused. Isn't
> 
> https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest/images/NetBSD-11.0_BETA-sparc64-dvd.iso
> 
> or
> 
> https://nycdn.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-11/latest/images/NetBSD-11.0_BETA-sparc64.iso
> 
> what you are looking for?


Thus far a really small LDOM on the ORACLE SPARC S7-2 claims that dog 
won't hunt :

NOTICE: Entering OpenBoot.
NOTICE: Fetching Guest MD.
NOTICE: Starting slave cpus.
NOTICE: Initializing LDCs.
NOTICE: Probing PCI devices.
NOTICE: Finished PCI probing.

SPARC S7-2, No Keyboard
Copyright (c) 1998, 2025, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.43.14, 16.0000 GB memory installed, Serial #83386628.
Ethernet address 0:14:4f:f8:61:4, Host ID: 84f86104.



{0} ok devalias
cdrom                    /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@1
disk0                    /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@0
vnet2                    /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/network@0
net                      /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/network@0
disk                     /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@0
virtual-console          /virtual-devices/console@1
name                     aliases
{0} ok boot cdrom
Boot device: /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@1  File and 
args:
WARNING: Unsupported bootblk image, can not extract fcode

WARNING: Bootblk fcode extraction failed

The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
{0} ok boot cdrom:a
NOTICE: Entering OpenBoot.
NOTICE: Fetching Guest MD.
NOTICE: Starting slave cpus.
NOTICE: Initializing LDCs.
NOTICE: Probing PCI devices.
NOTICE: Finished PCI probing.

SPARC S7-2, No Keyboard
Copyright (c) 1998, 2025, Oracle and/or its affiliates. All rights reserved.
OpenBoot 4.43.14, 16.0000 GB memory installed, Serial #83386628.
Ethernet address 0:14:4f:f8:61:4, Host ID: 84f86104.



Boot device: /virtual-devices@100/channel-devices@200/disk@1:a  File and 
args:
WARNING: Unsupported bootblk image, can not extract fcode

WARNING: Bootblk fcode extraction failed

Evaluating:
The file just loaded does not appear to be executable.
{0} ok

So maybe this is a network boot only type thing or what ?


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Dennis Clarke
RISC-V/SPARC/PPC/ARM/CISC
UNIX and Linux spoken