on 06/25/2000 11:41 PM, Allen Briggs at briggs@ninthwonder.com is rumored to
have said:

>>> Can I do a remote install similar to Solaris/AIX/RedHat via FTP
>>> or NFS or ?
>> Save for a 10 Meg mac partition (for booting) the rest of my Centris 650's
>> drive is devoted to 'bsd. Here's what I did:
>> Put all the .tgz files for installation, and the installer on another
>> machine. Turn on file sharing, and mount the drive on your target machine.
>> run the installer from there. This saves you having to devote a large
>> portion of the drive to store the .tgz files, just for installation.
> 
> There is also another alternative.  The experimental RAMDISK
> kernel-based installation--for that, you'll need enough space
> to store the booter and the kernel on the MacOS partition.
> 
> This is probably not as well-documented as the installer method,
> but it may be more comfortable if you're comfortable with other
> Unix-like installs.
> 
> Does anyone know what the current status of this installation
> method is?
> 
> -allen
> 

'I did a floppy install on my Quadra 610 via FTP....it rocked, except it
couldn't get the kern files which was particularly annoying at the time, but
someone may have fixed that...it couldn't find it on the NetBSD ftp server I
believe...

Greg