Colin Wood wrote:

>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?
>
>with any luck, it's in the INSTALL document.  i don't know if it made it
>in there for 1.5 or not.  sysinst is the machine-independent installation
>tool that is used by most netbsd ports, tho.  it's menu-driven and fairly
>straight-forward to use.  it runs off of a ramdisk that is built into an
>installation kernel.  it's pretty nifty on the whole.

Unfortunately it doesn't look like the documentation made it into the 1.5 
release.

-bob