> 
> On Tue, 13 May 1997, David Brownlee wrote:
> 
> like the miniroots that the quadras had to use until recently....  Except
> add in-kernel or lkm read-only hfs support.  Haven't had a chance to try
> the ro hfs lkm yet.  When I think about it, it should be pretty simple to
> write the un*x-side installer, just basically a script that calls mount,
> then calls mkfs (or does NetBSD call it newfs), then tar a number of
> times....

That's why we fussed w/ the ro hfs lkm. :-) Too bad it's still buggy.

I think the i386 port has a good example for how we can do it. They
basically start with one or two floppies and that's it. Well, you have
to do some BIOS partitioning first, but little else.

Take care,

Bill