Bill Studenmund <wrstuden@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
> If we're talking the booter, I'd vote going for libsa. If we're talking
> installer, then I'd vote doing both the same, and going your present
> routie. :-)

	I am doing a MacOS library of stuff common to both the Booter
and Installer (& mkfs?). At the moment, it has the ext2fs/ffs/ufs/vfs
code straight from the kernel, plus some glue for stuff like panic().

	After I get that fully working, I will add the GUI stuff for
selecting the device (IDE/SCSI) and partition, and the common stuff
for gzip & tar extraction.


Jason R. Thorpe <thorpej@nas.nasa.gov> wrote:
>> NetBSD/mac68k *should* be using sysinst, not some MacOS installer tool.

	Here I disagree. I think that it is better to have a mouse-
based graphical tool - it will always be better/easier for new users.

(Interestingly, the latest version of LinuxPPC provides an X-windows
 based installer. It does it by mounting a 60MB live filesystem. Yuk)

	There is nothing wrong with NetBSD/Mac68k having a working set
of tools under the MacOS as well. In fact, we already do. I just want
to fix them so that they use the kernel code (which hopefully works)
instead of the old Alice stuff.


>> This effort should really be put into a native boot block.

	MacOS tools are _my_ passion (and limited coding experience).
Not that others shouldn't work on native stuff, though :-)

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