In message <Pine.GSO.4.05.9909060958130.12760-100000@cynic.anim.dreamworks.com>
David Brownlee writes
>	Actually on a realtaed note - you might want to look at
>	distrib/sparc/ramdisk.sysinst
>
>	I modified it to use m4 so I could build i386 and sparc ramdisk
>	kernels from the same directory. My intentionw as to migrate
>	it into an MI area and expand it to other ports.

yes, except it doesn't scale well to multiple ports, and multiple
"flavours" of boot-floppy.  And it became out-of-date: no wiconfig,
no -lbz2.


I agree about the MI area, tho. the runlist stuff should go there too.
(even the `rules' to make a fs image could go there as a script).
what to call it, though?  src/distrib/media (boot/install media)?
With ./list and ./script subdirs, or what?

>	btw - I like the idea of your crunchgen changes, but would
>	an 'include' directive be more generic?
>

I think it's less general. Think of having 3 or 4 different flavour of
`boot floppy': x terminal, router, DHCP server, sysinst,
upgrade/install script, etc.  It's easier to mix-and-match
"flavour"-dependent and platform-dependent lists if you do it on a
command line.

Includes would be useful, toio, but that involves stacking some 
state in crunchgen. Sequential file-procesing was much easier to add.