Ultrix did tape installs this way, for example.=20
it wouldnt take too much work. who has the time though?=20
isildur

On Fri, 11 Oct 2002, Jochen Kunz wrote:

> installation? I mean, It can't be that hard to make a GENERIC=20
> kernel with an attached RAM disk containing this basic tools.
> The existing RAM disk less sysinst would be good point to start.
> Then put this RAM disk kernel with the right boot blocks onto=20
> a tape and behind that the dist-sets. So we can boot from tape=20
> to a single user shell, prepare the disk(s), move the tape to=20
> the first dist-set with mt, untar all we need, MAKEDEV, installboot
> and the disk is ready to boot for the first time ... to single
> user mode. The last step would be to do basic system configuration
> (fstab, rc.conf, localtime, ...) and continue to boot to multi user=20
> mode. Quite simple and gives maximum power to the user.=20
> Or am I missing somthing here?=20
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> Yes, I don't like sysinst and I avoid to use it where ever I can.=20
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>          Jochen
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