On Thu, 25 Feb 1999, Greg Eavns wrote:

> Hi, long time since I been on the list, moved to New Jersey and blah blah 
> blah...
> 
> Been playing around lately and since my NetBSD box is for fun and not for 
> really _doing_ anything I decided that I would check out Linux-m68k.
> 
> While I have been unsuccessful so far in getting it to install, I would 
> like to comment that on at least the Debian install there is a really 
> cool little installer script that helps users get everything installed by 
> booting Linux via floppy after the mac has started up, it then actually 
> leads the user through the install, networking settings, host 
> configuration, etc.
> 
> Are there any plans for something like this for NetBSD?

Now that we have a floppy driver in the tree, we could talk about making
boot floppies. NetBSD has the technology to make multi-disk boot setups,
and we have a sysinst utility which would help with an install.

Is the floppy driver up to snuff for this?

Also, we'd need sysinst to realize it can't edit some dislabels.

> and for something COMPLETELY off topic...can someone tell me what the 
> differences between debian and redhat linux are??

Who puts it together. Linus keeps track of "the" Linux kernel, and leaves
everything else to everyone else.

Take care,

Bill