USB stick image for snapshots

2015-05-04 Thread carsten . kunze
Hello, on ftp://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily ISO images of snapshots (e.g. named boot.iso) can be found. Would it be possible to also add something like boot.img which can be copied to a USB stick? If one often installs new snaphots on bare metal it is more comfortable to use a USB stick

Re: USB stick image for snapshots

2015-05-04 Thread Martin Husemann
On Mon, May 04, 2015 at 06:00:43PM +0200, carsten.ku...@arcor.de wrote: Hello, on ftp://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily ISO images of snapshots (e.g. named boot.iso) can be found. Would it be possible to also add something like boot.img which can be copied to a USB stick? If one often

Aw: Re: USB stick image for snapshots

2015-05-04 Thread carsten . kunze
On most machines it works to just dd the .iso to the usb stick. Unfortunately it does not work on my machine. It does recognize the USB stick as a floppy disk, then fails to boot it. So again--could a boot.img could be provided e.g. for some mainstream ports like amd64? Or a conversion

Re: USB stick image for snapshots

2015-05-04 Thread Joachim Henke
On 2015-05-04 18:00, carsten.ku...@arcor.de wrote: Hello, on ftp://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily ISO images of snapshots (e.g. named boot.iso) can be found. Would it be possible to also add something like boot.img which can be copied to a USB stick? If one often installs new snaphots

Aw: Re: USB stick image for snapshots

2015-05-04 Thread carsten . kunze
Hi Travis and Joachim, If you're ok to download the full installation sets, e.g. you could use these ones: ftp://nyftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD-daily/netbsd-7/201505031900Z/images/NetBSD -7.0_BETA-amd64-install.img.gz