If someone could point me to the Darwin code, I'd be more than
happy to try this again.  Our previous effort was hampered in
several ways, only one of which was the licensing terms.  

On Thu, 22 Jul 1999, Colin Wood wrote:

> hey bill! :-)
> 
> Bill Studenmund wrote:
> > How is the install-under-NetBSD track looking? I know Collin did a lot
> > with it for 1.4. :-)
> 
> well, bob nestor did the majority of the work, i just shoe-horned it into
> the 1.4 framework.  i haven't taken a look at it in -current quite yet.
> chris has been making a rather large number of changes to the overall
> program, so i haven't wanted to mess with it too much.  when last i left
> it, it would install via ftp (and presumably via cd-rom) from the
> requisite INSTALL kernel.  
> 
> once again, HFS support (even read-only) in the kernel would be really,
> really nice.  if anyone feels like learning a bit about kernel programming
> and has some time to play with it, this would be a very useful (if
> somewhat complex) project to try.  i know that bill and maybe paul worked
> on this before but ran into some snags (and the code was GPL'd as well,
> right?).  a bsd-licensed version would be best.
> 
> as for the rest of sysinst, there are a number of MI user-interface
> problems that i believe cgd is working on, and there are still a few rough
> edges in the mac68k partitioning code, but nothing that cannot be worked
> out relatively easily by someone (i.e. bob) who knows a little more about
> the partition map layout than myself.  i've recently received mail from
> bob about it, and i think he's back working on it again (at least if i can
> get mail to his AOL address to stop bouncing, maybe i can be sure of this
> :-)
> 
> well, enough rambling for now...
> 
> later.
> 
> colin
> 
> 

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