On Thu, 16 Apr 1998, Steve Revilak wrote:

> 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....

The problem with copying the tarballs all over to the NetBSD side is that
it would greatly increase the overhead necessary for installation, whereas
reading the files directly from the hfs partition wouldn't increase it at
all (i.e. "hcopy base.tgz - | tar -x --ungzip" or something).


David

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