Subject: Re: Installation Script
To: Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov>
From: Jonathan Stone <jonathan@DSG.Stanford.EDU>
List: port-pmax
Date: 07/19/1997 00:07:26
On Fri, 18 Jul 1997 17:47:28 -0700,
Jason Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> writes:
>On Fri, 18 Jul 1997 19:58:09 -0400
> Philip.Tait@phxase.allied.com (Philip Tait) wrote:
>
> > Wouldn't the OpenBSD/pmax installation script be a good start? I don't
> > think there are any restrictions on stealing from it.
>
>>"OpenBSD's" installation script is taken directly from NetBSD's. A
>>good portion of it was implemented by me, originally for the hp300.
>
Um, yes, it shares that with much else in OpenBSD :).
But (as author of both), would you recommend starting with the OpenBSD
script as-is, or re-adapting NetBSD's MI scripts to install on top of
the currently running root? (see my earlier reply about problems building
a mips miniroot for NetBSD, and I assume also OpenBSD)