Subject: Re: sysinst install
To: Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>
From: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/09/2000 17:51:16
On Wed, 9 Aug 2000, Allen Briggs wrote:

> I'd like to update its gzip-reading functions--it has problems with
> current gzip -9 gzipped data and I suspect that it just needs a recent
> copy of the gzip library code.  I'd also like to play around with some
> ideas for bootstrapping through a boot block so that we can build the
> bootblock with libsa and be done with ffs version incompatibilties.
> Then the booter just boots the boot block and we are closer to having
> the option of a vastly simplified booter.

Then you'll probably be interested in the new installboot I'm working on.
The code should do mac68k boot blocks in addition to macppc ones (there
are places where we hard-code we're ppc code, but other than that, it's
clean).

:-)

Take care,

Bill