On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Nico van Eikema Hommes wrote:

> However, the original point (speed of the installer) remains unsolved.
> How about a compromise for those platforms that don't yet have a native
> installer: in addition to "base.tgz", provide a "minimal.tgz" which has
> just enough to boot netbsd (single user would be sufficient) and untar
> a cpin-ed base.tgz.
> 
	Anoher option would be to just copy the tarfiles and a
	'kernel with built in ramdisk containing MI sysinst' to the bsd
	partition, then	boot that kernel. From that point installation
	could use the MI tools.


		David/absolute

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