I asked a few questions a couple of weeks back about installing the  
software via a PC, thanks for all the help it's been quite informative.

I have a few more questions but I'll leave those for another message, I  
was wondering if any work had been done on allowing software installs  
via methods other than the network. Apparently you can make a boot  
tape but cann't actually load the system miniroot from tape. As a  
consequence you have to load via the network. In practice this means  
that you must be the proud owner of another Unix system before you  
can install the software.

What if you haven't got one?? What if you have a Mac or WinPC what  
then. Worse, what if I had a servicable HP with no ethernet or with  
boot PROMs earlier than version 3?? 

The installation notes for 1.1 mention that this would be improved in  
the future, but I've just looked at the 1.2 Beta and it says the same  
thing. I would have thought that giving a variety of installation methods
would have been a priority fix since it stops otherwise viable systems  
from being used.

So whats the story??

Fletch