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From: briggs@puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us (Allen Briggs)
Newsgroups: comp.unix.bsd.netbsd.misc
Subject: Re: Copying between MacOS annd NetBSD
Date: 21 Jan 1996 16:32:37 GMT
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In article <DLFsy8.DC1@cdf.toronto.edu>,
Jamie Mason <g1jmason@cdf.toronto.edu> wrote:
>    Perhaps, he is looking for a way to do this from _within_ NetBSD.
>I believe there is a NetBSD add-on package which allows Mac partitions
>to be mounted (read-only if I remember) onto the NetBSD filesystem.

There is, it's available from puma.bevd.blacksburg.va.us in
pub/NetBSD/cray-ymp/progs.  Needs some work, but it has been
used successfully.

>    As for cpin/cpout in the minishell, I am disappointed with them;

Feel free to fix 'em.  The source is available.  The installer was
hacked together in a matter of days and it would be nice to have a
more polished program, but I'm certainly not a Mac programmer and
don't really have any inclination to become one...  ;-)

>    It would also have been nice if the installer had been shipped
>with the memory usage set up correctly.

It was.  For my systems.  I've never had to increase the memory
partition, although a number of people have.  We probably should
have extracted, updated and repacked the installer.  I'm still
hoping that someone will pick it up and make it much nicer...

>However, the Mac-side utilities for NetBSD (installer, mkfs, booter)
>leave something to be desired.  Perhaps they will be better in the
>next release version.

Only if someone works on them.  It's free software.
Brian Gaeke is working on the booter.  No one that I'm aware
of has picked up the installer and mkfs tools.

-allen

-- 
Allen Briggs - end killing - allen.briggs@bev.net ** MacBSD == NetBSD/mac68k **
   Where does all my time go?  <a href="http://www.netbsd.org/">Guess.</a>