Subject: Re: NetBSD partition beyond first GB
To: None <ender@macbsd.com>
From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 09/21/1999 06:23:43
Colin Wood  (cwood@ichips.intel.com) wrote:

>Ken Nakata wrote:
>> On Sun, 19 Sep 1999 18:56:16 -0500, Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com> 
>wrote:
>> > 
>> > Sysinst/mac68k is built into a special Installation Kernel which you boot 
>> > into with the Booter application.
>> 
>> That reminds me of...  How far (or close :-) is mac68k sysinst to
>> getting committed?
>
>it's been in there since 1.4, although not 100% reliable.  bob's working
>on it, tho....

Part of the reliabilty problem was due to some difficulty in getting the 
new disk partitions mapped into the running system without having to do a 
reboot.  I think I've fixed that now, at least it works reliably for me.

-bob