Re: supported systems list - Improving Install

Michael <[email protected]> wrote:


> 
> Regarding the install procedure for 68K Macs, the MacOS installer 
> program seems quite a bit slower than using tar.  It would be nice if 
> OpenBSD shipped with a minimal tarball which contains only what is 
> necessary to boot the system, run a decent shell (e.g. ksh), tar,
> gzip, df, fsck, mount, and newfs.  One could then use the installer to
> move the other tarballs onto an OpenBSD partition, and use tar to
> install the system proper.  That would speed up the installation
> process quite a bit, i think.

Yepp, that's what bsd.rd is for on other archs. The same could be done
on mac68k, just .. somebody has to implement it first :)

Regards,
Martin