On Wed, 15 Apr 1998, Colin Wood wrote:

> once again, the real issue here is using a netbsd-based install instead of
> a macos-based one.  that will give us the necessary speed increase.  the
> amount of space taken up by these files is negligible.

If sysinst doesn't prove to be too much of a pain to get working with our
distribution, then I'll start hacking on a means of convincing it to use
hfsutils shortly.  There's one thing that's missing from hfsutils, though,
that will make it rather difficult to use....  I don't see an hcat command
to dump the data fork of a file.  Without that, it will be forced to first
*copy* the entire distributions to the NetBSD partitions, which will also
add a very massive overhead for the install process, unless we create a
base.0-base.10 type "install" distribution....

Thus, it looks like we may need to hack on hfsutils before we even touch
sysinst.


David

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