Re: supported systems list - Improving Install

mreindl:
> 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 :)

NetBSD has a much improved mac68k installer. It even supports ftp
installer *after* booting into NetBSD.

-- Don