On Tue, 15 Jul 1997, David Brownlee wrote:

> 	NeXT (to take another example of the top of my head :) hmmm,

You read my mind *8-)

> 	if you can get NetBSD to generate a filesystem that NeXT can
> 	understand (old style BSD?), then you should be able to do it

I believe so.

> 	with disklabel, newfs, and the tar, followed by a bit of magic
> 	with dd to get whatever disklabel/boot blocks NeXT requires.
> 	"More interesting..." :)
>

Shouldn't be too tricky that last bit. I'm more woried about creating
a NetBSD system that runs from CD but the thought sounds a lot easier
than tryign to do the same for NeXT !!
 
> 	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.
> 

Can't be sure they will be so the system has to smart enough to adapt
to suit the drive it finds.

--Sean