Kevin,
Enter the mini shell in the installer. 
Once there type 'cpin macintosh:path:to:tar.gz /unix/path/to/dir/tar.gz'
Thats it! And to get tar balls out, the the exact oppsite using cpout.

Chris

On Sun, 18 Jan 1998, Kevin Havener wrote:

> This is a stupid question and I apologize.  I'd like to install a 
> couple of programs--dt and a ppp setup thingy--but how do I get the 
> tarballs to the BSD side of my Mac?  I don't have a CD-ROM or my 
> isp/dialup/ppp set up on NetBSD yet.  It is my understanding 
> that the floppy drive does me no good at this point.  How do I mount the 
> Mac partitions?  I have seen the answer to this somewhere but I've 
> searched for two days and I can't find it again.  I also assume the 
> installer is not useful for this task.
> 
>                                    Feeling Idiotic
>                                    Kevin
> 
>