Re: Installer

Miod Vallat <[email protected]> Wed, 21 Apr 2004 14:06:32 +0000
Newsgroups gmane.os.openbsd.mac68k
Message-ID <[email protected]>
> Can anyone enlighten me as to why we don't have a bsd.rd kernel for 
> mac68k? I understand that partitioning and installing bsd.rd would 
> still need to be done by the MacOS-based utilities, but I think some of 
> our install issues would go away if we used the standard install 
> procedure. I was going to try to play with making a release before 
> asking, but at the speed my 030 moves... I got impatient.

There is one, but it's not built as part of the release process.

The reason is that, due to some bug, it does not work if you can't
specify an existing partition as a swap area - even though it won't
necessarily swap.

This is a very tricky bug for which nobody has worked long enough to fix
it.

Miod