Hi,

I guess what I was wanting to do is make my own "base.tgz" in fact that's
what I called it, I want to burn it to a CD, if I want to remake the machine
for some reason, I can use the standard mac tools to build the MacOS stuff,
Once I've got it booting, I can then use the "hacked" Apple HD SC, to make
the disk partitions, then use the MKFS tool to format them, then use the
Installer to push my version of base.tgz onto the machine.

I assume that the making the standard base.tgz must be documented somewhere,
I would like to get hold of that information so I can replicate it for my
version of base.tgz.

Does this make some form of sense? I'm not trying to package the
partitioning or boot blocks.

I've got a spare disk floating around, I might just test my theory.

Cheers, Paul.

-----Original Message-----
From: port-mac68k-owner@netbsd.org
[mailto:port-mac68k-owner@netbsd.org]On Behalf Of Don Yuniskis
Sent: Wednesday, 2 January 2002 6:00 p.m.
To: paul@abyss.co.nz; 'MacBSD'
Subject: Re: Imaging.


Greetings!

>I've got my NetBSD server pretty much set up how I want it now, What I
>would like to do is make a TAR image of the box.
>
>What I would like to know is, If I tar and gzip the / partition, can I use
>the installer to push the setup directly back onto the box should it
>"hose" itself? What are the implications of doing this?
>
>Anyone done this?

If you mount an MFS as /, you can disklabel, newfs, etc.
your (hosed) disk.  Then, mount it at, e.g., /mnt...
    cd /mnt
    tar xzpf /wherever_your_tarball_resides (e.g., /dev/mt0)
Note that the tarball won't include the boot blocks.  So,
you will need to reinstall them (assuming your drive was
*completely* hosed) before you could reboot to it.

Have I forgotten anything?

*Ouch!*  This is netbsd-mac68k... I'm not sure how you
deal with the damn MacOS "boot partition"  :-(  I wonder if
it isn't easier to just do a SCSI copy to restore the entire
drive (including the MacOS partition)...?

--don