David A. Gatwood wrote:
> On Wed, 8 Apr 1998, Michael R Zucca wrote:
> 
> > > working ide driver, how could we use  the { install, booter } programs
> > > with ide disks since they only support scsi for now (?).
> > 
> > This is a very legitmate concern. However, what we could do to start work
> > on the driver would be to boot off a SCSI drive and mount an IDE drive
> > to test. Eventually, though, the installer and booter would have to be
> > re-written to handle IDE as well.
> 
> Here's a thought.  Many of the other ports have gone to native installs.
> We have most of the pieces working now for such a feat.  This sounds like
> as good an excuse as any to try to set something up along those lines.

There's 1 major obstacle to this working for us that I see:  in-kernel HFS
support.  Although an FTP-based native install would probably work, I
seriously doubt that most people will have networking setup at install
time :-)  That being the case, we have to be able to read the distribution
sets off of an HFS partition.  We don't quite have a good way of doing
this at the moment, tho....

Later.

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Colin Wood                                 cwood@ichips.intel.com
Component Design Engineer - MD6                 Intel Corporation
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