...
> (although i've thought of possibly creating an MSDOS partition
>  to dump the tarballs into and getting around the HFS dependency
>  that way...)

	MSDOS? Yuk.


	How about an MFS? We used to support memory-based filesystems
in the Booter once upon a time (before Scott took them out).

	Of course, you would need a lot of memory.

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