on 06/26/2000 12:02 AM, Greg at raisplin@rcn.com is rumored to have said:

> on 06/25/2000 11:41 PM, Allen Briggs at briggs@ninthwonder.com is rumored to
> have said:
> 
>>>> Can I do a remote install similar to Solaris/AIX/RedHat via FTP
>>>> or NFS or ?
>>> Save for a 10 Meg mac partition (for booting) the rest of my Centris 650's
>>> drive is devoted to 'bsd. Here's what I did:
>>> Put all the .tgz files for installation, and the installer on another
>>> machine. Turn on file sharing, and mount the drive on your target machine.
>>> run the installer from there. This saves you having to devote a large
>>> portion of the drive to store the .tgz files, just for installation.
>> 
>> There is also another alternative.  The experimental RAMDISK
>> kernel-based installation--for that, you'll need enough space
>> to store the booter and the kernel on the MacOS partition.
>> 
>> This is probably not as well-documented as the installer method,
>> but it may be more comfortable if you're comfortable with other
>> Unix-like installs.
>> 
>> Does anyone know what the current status of this installation
>> method is?
>> 
>> -allen
>> 
> 
> 'I did a floppy install on my Quadra 610 via FTP....it rocked, except it
> couldn't get the kern files which was particularly annoying at the time, but
> someone may have fixed that...it couldn't find it on the NetBSD ftp server I
> believe...
> 
> Greg

Pardon the above, I was being a spaz, I meant the sysinst method....I was
thinking of something else entirely when I wrote that...  but yes, the
sysinst method worked great