What is the best way to install current binary snapshots?
Although the MacOS-based Installer utility can install the gzipped tar archives in which the binary snapshots are distributed, there is an often much faster method for doing so. First, you need to obtain the snapshots and put them in a place that you can access them from NetBSD. There are a variety of ways you can do this. You can directly transfer them to your NetBSD filesystem via ftp (or zmodem, if you are using a serial connection), or you can transfer them to your MacOS filesystem via whatever method you choose (be sure to use binary mode for transferring the snapshots or they will be corrupted), and then copy them into your NetBSD partition using either the hfs utility or the hfsutils package. You can also just cpin the files using the Installer, but I believe that the hfs programs are faster (and probably more in the NetBSD spirit as well). Remember that these programs must be run as root in order for them to be able to access your MacOS partitions. Second, it is probably best t
Although the Mac OS-based Installer utility can install the gzipped tar archives in which the binary snapshots are distributed, there is an often much faster method for doing so. First, you need to obtain the snapshots and put them in a place that you can access them from NetBSD. There are a variety of ways you can do this. You can directly transfer them to your NetBSD filesystem via ftp (or zmodem, if you are using a serial connection), or you can transfer them to your Mac OS filesystem via whatever method you choose (be sure to use binary mode for transferring the snapshots or they will be corrupted), and then copy them into your NetBSD partition using either the hfs utility or the hfsutils package. You can also just cpin the files using the Installer, but I believe that the hfs programs are faster (and probably more in the NetBSD spirit as well). Remember that these programs must be run as root in order for them to be able to access your Mac OS partitions. Second, it is probably bes
