On Mon, 17 Nov 1997, Bill Studenmund wrote:

> Just as a refresher, this question came up on the mac68k list. We do not,
> at present, use a NetBSD install program.
> 
> How will such a program get on the computer, if it's not in the tar files? 

I don't know. Surely you're not going to propose putting the MD
mac install program into the MI 68k tarfiles, are you?

> The standard mac68k instalation procedure is to use the installer utility
> to untar the distribution onto the new root filesystem, boot the computer
> to single-user, and then configure things away.

Maybe you need to create a separate tarfile in the distribution
that has the MAC-specific install utilities on it. Or just put
enough information in the INSTALL readme file so that folks know
how to do the install.

cjs

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