Hauke Fath  (hauke@Espresso.Rhein-Neckar.DE) wrote:

>>BTW do we have a 'miniroot' or memory disk installation kernel for mac68k?
>>It seems like we could make one, and run it from MacOS, and avoid the mkfs
>>and installer programs and their old ffs code entirely...
>
>A sysinst based installation process is in the works, but afaik not there,
>yet. There is a kernel configuration for a miniroot, but I have never tried
>it, myself. Perhaps Allen or Scott can help you there.

Actually there is a running sysinst/mac68k Installation Kernel, at least 
it worked for me. The patches to the kernel sources haven't made it into 
the tree yet, but they have been posted via PR.  If anyone wants to try a 
1.4.1 version sysinst they can contact me and I'll make it available for 
testing.  It does eliminate the need for Mkfs and the Installer, but it 
can't handle loading the tarballs from an HFS disk yet so they must 
either be accessible on CDROM or via network connection.

-bob