the needed endianism of the architecture. One step towards cross-building
releases.
Not touched are newfs calls in install scripts as they run on the desired
machine and thus default correctly.
commandlines for all tar operations. (work supplied by Matt Green)
2) Update arch/*/md.c to deal with new sysinst/run.c. Special case
anything that needs to do a redirect or a pipe.
3) #if 0 some unused code in target.c. This code will need to be updated,
or special cased with do_system.
Big thank you to Matt for all his work on this.
boot. Yes, NetBSD/alpha finally gets sysinst on all media types.
The new boot makes a single ramdisk which is then divided via ustarfs
onto a two-floppy set, and a second unified image for CD's, HD's, or
tapes is also created.
in its belly. This differs from the floppy kernel in that it uses the
sysinst installation tool (and thus requires more space; the ramdisk is
3M).
This is useful for netbooting and installing or for placing on a CD-ROM.
wrstuden