Subject: Snapshot building to extract miniroot to tarball
To: None <port-hp300@netbsd.org>
From: Michael Wolfson <mw@costello.cnf.cornell.edu>
List: port-hp300
Date: 10/18/2000 14:33:59
Hi,

Could someone set up hp300 snapshot building such that when it creates the
miniroot filesystem, it also places those files in a tarball (like pmax).
This makes netbooting an installtion *much* easier.

Instead of installing a complete NetBSD base, etc, and kernel, on the NFS
server, and figuring out the right commands to install NetBSD onto a local
hard drive, one could just untar the miniroot files and use the normal
installer.

Thanks,
  -- MW