Curt Sampson wrote:
> 
> 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?

Oh, no, that'd be rather silly :-)

> > 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.

I'll definitely be working on this a bit more as we go through BETA.
Hopefully, I'll have something relatively useful by the time we hit the
release.  I'm going to try upgrading to 1.3_ALPHA in the next couple of
days, so hopefully I'll be aware of most of the issues that'll arise.

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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