Subject: Re: NetBSD/Mac68k Install Tools
To: Scott Reynolds <scottr@og.org>
From: Michael R Zucca <mrz5149@cs.rit.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 10/22/1997 20:52:01
> Obviously, to install from the Mac HFS partition we'd need a working HFS
> filesystem that we could bundle. That's a bit of a hairy issue at the
> moment... but not insurmountable. In any event, this won't happen for the
> upcoming 1.3 release.
Ahh yes. This is very similar to what linux-pmac does. You make a boot
disk that has a kernel with an embedded installer in it and you boot
with that disk. Quite nice actually.
NetBSD is alot faster at installing than the installer is so this is
definately a desirable thing.