On Tue, 11 Feb 2003, Eric Benoit wrote:

> Recently installed NetBSD 1.5.3 on an old Quadra 650. Pretty good!
> Excellent job guys!
>
> One thing I'd like to point out, however, is what I consider an easier way
> to go through the installation which I did not see covered in the
> installation guide.
>
> I somewhat groaned at the idea of installing everything in MacOS, and not
> through the venerable 'sysinst' tool. What I did notice in the
> installation directory was an install image, so I proceeded to boot that.
> Lo and behold, we've sysinst.

Glad it worked for you! The (experimental, undocumented) 1.5.3/mac68k
sysinstall had a tendency to destroy existing partitions. (That was all
fixed for 1.6.)

> So my procedure basically entailed:
...
> I'm sure that everyone here knows all about the above, but the install
> guide seems to have the majority of the installation in MacOS itself.
> This, of course, requires a CD-ROM, AppleTalk setup or existing
> installation of MacOS.

Please take a look here:

  ftp://ftp.netbsd.org/pub/NetBSD/arch/mac68k/snapshot/20021013-1.6I/INSTALL.html

to see if you have anything to add. Frederico Lupi is solely
responsible for the guide... If you want anything to come of your
comments, I suggest you send them to him, or to the www people.

By the way... 1.5.3 has known bugs with serious security implications.
You can get patches from the web site, if you rebuild from source.
More practically, you can give sysinstall's upgrade option a workout
when the 1.6.1 release candidates are announced.

Frederick