Subject: Re: Installer proposal...
To: port-mac68k mailing list <port-mac68k@NetBSD.ORG>
From: Steve Revilak <revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 04/16/1998 01:48:58
David Brownlee <abs@anim.dreamworks.com> writes:
Subject:

>	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.

Linux-mac68k used something like that.  Installer copied tar files onto the
linux partitions, then provided a mini-shell through which they could be
gunzipped and untarred.  I think watchtower took around an hour and a half
to install....

Steve Revilak
revilak@umbsky.cc.umb.edu