On Sat, 24 Jun 2000, Tod McQuillin wrote:

> On Fri, 23 Jun 2000, Brett Kessler wrote:
> 
> > I've seen other references to a "kern_sbc.tgz" file, but I can't seem to
> > find it anywhere...
> 
> It's just the generic kernel built with sbc scsi instead of nsrscsi.  
> It looks like this file is missing in NetBSD-1.4.2, for some reason:

Because "make release" doesn't create it? If we do make one
automatically, it should probably have a name like kern.GENERICSBC.tgz.
[Releases before 1.4.2 were lovingly crafted by hand...]
 
> But it's just a gzipped tar file containing a single file, the kernel, for
> ease of use with the installer.  You can also get the sbc kernel (as you
> deduced) from binary/kernel/netbsd.GENERICSBC.gz.  Fortunately the NetBSD
> booter can boot from MacOS files (even gzipped ones) as easily as it can
> read /netbsd from the root partition of your NetBSD installation (check
> the booter manual at 
> http://www.netbsd.org/Ports/mac68k/booter-manual/BooterManual.html).

You could also use "cpin" from the installer's minishell.



Frederick