Subject: Re: Network installer..
To: Hubert Feyrer <hubert.feyrer@informatik.fh-regensburg.de>
From: David Brownlee <abs@netbsd.org>
List: tech-install
Date: 09/04/2000 08:10:01
On Sun, 3 Sep 2000, Hubert Feyrer wrote:

> On Sat, 2 Sep 2000, David Brownlee wrote:
> > 	This sounds more than a little useful :)
> > 	We could do with something similar for Win98 - would there
> > 	be any way to persuade you to make this available as a package?
> 
> A package for a 1-line-shellscript?
> ftp -o "|gunzip|dd bs=1m progress=1 of=/dev/rwd0d" ftp://install@${host}/rwd0d.gz

	I did something like the above for installing NeXTStep at
	Dreamworks via a NetBSD floppy (all machines had 2GB disk).
	Manuel mentioned something about actually partitioning and
	installing boot blocks, which sounds more interesting...

                David/absolute
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