On Sun, 22 Mar 1998, Ken Nakata wrote:

> On Sun, 22 Mar 1998 11:18:12 +1100 (EST),
> nigel@ind.tansu.com.au wrote:
> > > 
> > > On Wed, 18 Mar 1998 10:50:50 -0500,
> > > Jim Kidd <jimk@is01.wvpa.com> writes:
> > > > Does netbsd 1.3 have a root disk image that can be used to tar stuff
> > > > from tape or CD-ROM on to brand new file systems?
> > > 
> > > It is possible.  See Booter manual for the details on how to do this.
> > 
> > 	Actually, this was changed recently.  From the Booter changelog:
> 
> Oops!  Thanks for the correction.  Should have checked before opening
> my big mouth.  BTW, what the heck is an "in-kernel root filesystem"?
> Does it mean the kernel file has a built-in root filesystem image in
> it?

Yes. You just boot the kernel, and you automagically get a ramdisk as root
with whatever you wanted on it. It makes installing easy. :-)

I've not used it w/ mac68k, though.

Take care,

Bill