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diff --git a/release/INSTALL-binary b/release/INSTALL-binary index b124a98b..730e3656 100644 --- a/release/INSTALL-binary +++ b/release/INSTALL-binary @@ -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. |