Pat Plummer wrote:

>On Sun, 03 Dec 2000, Colin Wood wrote:
>> John Klos wrote:
>> > > > mount /
>> > > > cd /dev
>> > > > sh MAKEDEV all
>> > > > shutdown -r now
>> > 
>> > Doesn't this mean that the Installer program that runs in MacOS needs to
>> > be updated to build ttyE0 by default?
>> > 
>> > I had this problem, too.
>> 
>> yes it does.  we would like as many people as possible to switch to the
>> sysinst-based install, tho.  that method would avoid this little problem.
>> 
>> -colin
>
>Where can I read more about sysinst?

The original INSTALL documentation I wrote up on it is still avaiable on 
my system.

  ftp://murphy.dyndns.org/pub/sysinst/INSTALL.*

It should be close enough for installing 1.4x or 1.5 using sysinst.  I'm 
not sure about the handling of disk partitioning though.  However, if you 
partition your disk _before_ running sysinst you should be OK and there 
shouldn't be any problem doing a complete installation.  One thing that's 
missing is the ability to install from an HFS/HFS+ disk though, so you're 
limited to installing from CDROM, FTP or NFS.  On the plus side you'll 
find it a whole lot faster and you shouldn't see any of the pesky disk 
size, SCSI read, or Installer alloc errors.

-bob