Subject: Re: SE/30
To: <>
From: Colin Wood <cwood@ichips.intel.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 11/20/1998 09:40:01
Frederick Bruckman wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Nov 1998, Wayne Stewart wrote:
> 
> > >The installer
> > >can handle a gzipped kernel, but it will have to be unzipped and
> > >renamed in order for "ps" and friends to work properly. He can use
> > >"mount -a; gunzip -c netbsd-GENERIC.gz >/netbsd". I'm fairly
> > >certain all this is in the installation notes.
> > 
> > yes seems OK,  Where was this in the install notes though?  Maybe I am
> > reading the wrong set of notes!
> 
> Let's see... There are instructions to install either kern.tgz, or
> kern_sbc.tgz, along with rest of the sets. Then, later it says:
> 
> "Additional kernels to those included in the distribution sets may be
>  found in the "mac68k/binary/kernels" subdirectory of the NetBSD 1.3.2
>  distribution tree.  These kernels are generally named something like
>  "netbsd-GENERIC.gz" or some other suitable name.  Please note that
>  these kernels are simply gzipped and are not in tar archives."
> 
> You're not the very first person to have trouble with this. You could
> always submit a pr for a document change request. See "man 1 send-pr"

If anyone can come up with a better wording, please let me know....I'll
fix it.  Personally, I think the INSTALL doc is pretty clear, provided you
read all of it.  Then again, I wrote large portions of it, so I guess I'm
a bit biased in that regard ;-)

-Colin