Looking for 8.2-RELEASE.img.gz

[Ian Lepore]

On Fri, 2019-05-24 at 11:44 -0700, Rodney W. Grimes wrote:
> > Try ftp-archive.freebsd.org
> 
> Not going to find a kirkwood image there, I do not believe
> there are any arm* images older than 10.* on that site.
> 
> > Warner
> > 
> > On Fri, May 24, 2019 at 11:23 AM Balanga Bar <balanga.bar at gmail.com
> > > wrote:
> > 
> > > Does anyone know where I might be able to find 8.2-RELEASE.img.gz
> > > <
> > > 
http://update.cooltrainer.org/freebsd-kirkwood/pub/FreeBSD/releases/arm/8.2-RELEASE/8.2-RELEASE.img.gz
> > > > 
> 
> I suspect that this was built outside the project and
> provided by someone at cooltrainer.org.  I posted earlier
> on this list about other people playing with kirkwood,
> you might try a google search:
> 
> site:freebsd.org kirkwood
> site:freebsd.org pogoplug|sheevaplug|kirkwood|88f6192
> 
> There is someone who has 11.2 running on these, we
> need to get the group of us that have these and want
> these working togeather and get some sharable images
> out there.
> 

A good start would be actually making it work.  Hint:  getting to a
login prompt is a long long way short of "working".  Try things like
powering off the system while it's writing to a file, then see if you
can get it to fsck without panicking on the new boot.

-- Ian