Re: netbsd-5 install from unmounted gemdos filesystem

On Wed, 4 Feb 2009, David Ross wrote:

>>  Final question: Does prepare.fs.gz *do* anything that
>>  sysinst.fs.gz doesn't anymore? Disk partitioning / labelling
>>  / anything?
>
> I booted it up once just to see what it did.  It looked potentially useful 
> for disk partitioning, maybe for some AHDI related scenarios (dual boot) or 
> something like that.  But sysinst does everything I need.  IMO, it's 
> definitely worth considering removing it at this point if nobody sees a need 
> to keep it around.

 	Hmm, sysinst covers dual boot setup on other ports, so that
 	functionality should ideally be moved across. I think we'll
 	leave it for now. Maybe once NetBSD 5 is out and you have some
 	spare time you could try testing a dual boot install to see
 	what we need to fix there? :)

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