Subject: Re: Please proofread: revised install docs for OF 2.0.x
To: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
From: Bob Nestor <rnestor@augustmail.com>
List: port-macppc
Date: 10/27/2000 06:44:06
David Brownlee wrote:

>On Thu, 26 Oct 2000, Bob Nestor wrote:
>
>> I had the same experience with System Disk that Henry describes.  After
>> that I'm kind of leary about using it again since I have no idea what it
>> will modify.  I'd feel much more comfortable dealing with a set of
>> instructions that tell me how to get into OF and set variables by hand
>> and why I'm doing it.  That way I can keep a record of what they were
>> before I changed them and have some hope of getting my system back if
>> things don't work out.
>>
>	Would it make sense to provide a modified version of System Disk
>	that just makes the NetBSD required changes?

This makes sense, but System DIsk is an Apple product that is delivered 
in executable form.  I don't know if they've distributed the source or if 
they'd allow modified forms to be distributed.

-bob