Subject: Re: sysinst install
To: Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@zembu.com>
From: Allen Briggs <briggs@ninthwonder.com>
List: port-mac68k
Date: 08/09/2000 20:32:16
> Can we get sysinst to just build an old-style filesystem? We still have
> the code to do it in newfs.

Is anyone supporting the booter right now?  Nigel--are you still around?

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.

-allen