On Mon, Oct 18, 1999 at 11:59:57AM -0700, Erik E. Fair wrote:
> There's another way to go about this:
> 
> 1. get/write HFS/HFS+ support.
> 
> 2. run NetBSD mounted on a vnd/ffs root inside a single HFS/HFS+ file.
> 
> That way, in theory, you shouldn't need to do anything funky to MacOS or
> its partitioning system.

Ewwww!  This is *foul*.

Faking up a trivial HFS with a boot selector in it would be much less
awful, IMHO.

I mean, this way lies the "why don't we just run from a FFS vnd on
FAT or NTFS" madness.  Sure, it's easy to do.  No, there is just no good
reason I can see to add Yet Another Layer and chop off that extra
bit of performance just to avoid getting the boot process right for
a particular platform.

As an install-time option for people who can't or don't want to
repartition their drives, that's one thing.  As the solution for
the general case, it's quite another.

-- 
Thor Lancelot Simon	                                      tls@rek.tjls.com
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