On Wed, 13 Dec 2000, Todd Vierling wrote:

: : ftp://ftp.rmkhome.com/pub/netbsd/netbsd15/netbsd.ram.gz
:
: This kernel isn't required.  The layout of the 1.5 distribution has several
: different install methods which do all work.

Let me clarify this statement:  The ramdisk kernels for 1.5_ALPHA* do NOT
work with many systems, particularly earlier sun4c's, because of the way
memory is set up on those machines at boot time.

The new layout of the installer consists of a smaller ramdisk kernel with a
`microroot' which will extract the second boot file into a mfs and chroot to
that.  You could think of it as a two-stage install bootstrap.

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