It depends on the operating system...
	Dos/Win should not be a problem - newfs_msdos and a tarimage of
	what you want to install. If you want to customise each install
	tar a copy of the CD onto the disk and then run the win install
	from there (its surprising how much faster this is :)

	NeXT (to take another example of the top of my head :) hmmm,
	if you can get NetBSD to generate a filesystem that NeXT can
	understand (old style BSD?), then you should be able to do it
	with disklabel, newfs, and the tar, followed by a bit of magic
	with dd to get whatever disklabel/boot blocks NeXT requires.
	"More interesting..." :)

	Of corse if all your disks are the same size (or probably
	at least the same size) you could just dd an image to the
	raw disk.

	Probably best to test with a floppy nfs mounting the rest of the
	files iniitally...

	Let us knwo how it goes!

		David/abs

    "Its a bright sunny california day outside, and you're inside."
    "And your point would be...?"


On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, Sean Witham wrote:

> 
> How hard would it be to create a specialised NetBSD kernel that would
> boot from a CDROM and then carry out a custom installation of another
> operating system to the machine's internal harddisk ?
> 
> --Sean
>