Re: Netbooting a blue and white G3

[Andy Ruhl <acruhl%gmail.com@localhost>]

On Fri, Oct 16, 2009 at 9:25 AM, Flavio Donadio 
<flavio%donadio.com.br@localhost> wrote:
> Andy,
>
>
> I just got an idea.
>
> In the installer's partioning process, it should create, no matter what, a
> small HFS partition for the bootloader. On the CD, there would be a disk
> image file that would be written, block for block, to the HFS partition
> created before.
>
> This block copy process would eliminate the requirement for hfsutils on the
> install CD.
>
> People: what do you think?

Sure, and I'm guessing OpenBSD does something similar, except with an
MSDOS image.

Seems to me that MSDOS would be easier to implement with already
available tools (no pkgsrc required) and it could be done when
building from source easier. We wouldn't have to include a binary file
in the source tree, although I guess that's not really a huge deal
either.

Andy