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authorThomas Bushnell <thomas@gnu.org>1996-07-30 19:17:43 +0000
committerThomas Bushnell <thomas@gnu.org>1996-07-30 19:17:43 +0000
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@@ -42,8 +42,7 @@ understand how to boot from a Linux ext2fs filesystem, though this is
expected to change very soon.
Ideally, you should make a new disk, labelling it with the BSD
-`disklabel' command. Make sure you leave cylinder 0 unused; the A
-partition should start at cylinder 1.
+`disklabel' command.
Make the A partition large enough to hold the entire Hurd binary
image, and then some, and make a B partition for swap. Use newfs to
@@ -401,47 +400,42 @@ C. Proceed through the NetBSD automated installation script.
D. Tell the script that you want to use cylinders, not sectors,
in specifying sizes.
-E. VERY IMPORTANT: Make the size of your `NetBSD' portion one
- cylinder less than the total amount listed. If the script
- tells you that you have 3045 cylinders, then say you want the
- NetBSD portion to be 3044 cylinders long.
+E. Make the size of your `NetBSD' portion the total amount
+ that the script has listed, starting at cylinder 0.
-F. VERY IMPORTANT: Tell the script that your `NetBSD' portion
- should start at cylinder 1. Not 0. 1.
-
-G. Then allocate however much disk you want to your root partition
+F. Then allocate however much disk you want to your root partition
and to your swap partition. The root partition must be big
enough to hold the entire Hurd binary snapshot; it is strongly
recommended that you make it a fair bit bigger than that. It is
quite satisfactory to use only one filesystem partition in the
Hurd.
-H. If you specify partitions beyond the root partition and swap,
+G. If you specify partitions beyond the root partition and swap,
the script will ask you for a `mount point'. Type anything you
like, it won't matter.
-I. Affirm to the over-eagerly questioning script that you really do
+H. Affirm to the over-eagerly questioning script that you really do
want to smash your disk. NetBSD will proceed to create
filesystems on all the partitions you specified in I.G-H.
-J. When the script says "populating ..." hit ^C. You are now done
+I. When the script says "populating ..." hit ^C. You are now done
with the script.
-K. cd to /mnt. For each mount point that was gratuitously created
+J. cd to /mnt. For each mount point that was gratuitously created
in step I.H, say `umount NAME'. Then say `rm -rf * .*'. Make
sure you are really in /mnt. This will delete whatever NetBSD
has put on your new partition.
-L. Initialize the network with `ifconfig DEV MY-ADDR'. DEV was
+K. Initialize the network with `ifconfig DEV MY-ADDR'. DEV was
printed by the kernel when it booted; type `more /kern/msgbuf'
if you want to see those messages again. (Sometimes ifconfig
says that something is "offline". Ignore it.)
-M. Mount the NFS server partition with the conveniente command
+L. Mount the NFS server partition with the conveniente command
`mount SERVER-ADDR:SERVER-DIR /mnt2'.
-N. Copy the Hurd onto your disk with the command
+M. Copy the Hurd onto your disk with the command
(cd /mnt2; tar cf - .) | (cd mnt; tar xfpv -)
-O. If you haven't done STEP II yet, then do it now; otherwise go on
+N. If you haven't done STEP II yet, then do it now; otherwise go on
to STEP III.