David A. Gatwood wrote:
> 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.

At some point, I seem to remember someone saying they had done an install
by piping one of the hfsutils' commands straight into 'tar', so I think
that it might just be possible....I haven't looked at them in quite a
while.  Maybe when I get home tonight.

Later.

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