diff --git a/distrib/notes/INSTALL b/distrib/notes/INSTALL index ed1d1f4828ce..c0b1d551b120 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/INSTALL +++ b/distrib/notes/INSTALL @@ -11,7 +11,7 @@ What is NetBSD? ---- -- ------ The NetBSD Operating System is a fully functional UN*X-like system -derrived from the Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2), 4.4BSD-Lite, +derived from the Berkeley Networking Release 2 (Net/2), 4.4BSD-Lite, and 4.4BSD-Lite2 sources. NetBSD runs on many architectures and is being ported to more. @@ -30,7 +30,7 @@ commercially available systems. It is impossible to summarize the 18 months of development that went into the NetBSD _VER release. Some of the significant changes include: - Support for machine independant device drivers has been + Support for machine independent device drivers has been radically improved with the addition of the "bus.h" interface, providing a high quality abstraction for machine and architecture independent device access. @@ -153,7 +153,7 @@ Compatibility Issues: As with any system which has functionality added and products modified to fit within the goals of portability, standards -adherance, and uniformity, there have been some changes which +adherence, and uniformity, there have been some changes which affects compatibility with existing NetBSD products. The following products may need the suggested work-around to @@ -171,7 +171,7 @@ work in NetBSD _VER: The most common position for a swap partition is the `b' partition of the drive the root file system is on. For diskless systems, check the new swapctl(8) manual for more - detail on how this is done. Example fstab entrys: + detail on how this is done. Example fstab entries: /dev/sd0b none swap sw,priority=0 /dev/sd1b none swap sw,priority=5 diff --git a/distrib/notes/i386/contents b/distrib/notes/i386/contents index 2d648b232aa7..e580ad6e266c 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/i386/contents +++ b/distrib/notes/i386/contents @@ -176,7 +176,7 @@ system installed and running. The sets are: included, this set is large. However, you will only need one of the servers provided in this set (typically XF86_SVGA). - [ 12M gzipped, 29M unzipped ] + [ 12M gzipped, 29M uncompressed ] The i386 binary distribution sets are distributed as gzipped tar files named with the extension ".tgz", e.g. "base.tgz". They are also @@ -188,7 +188,7 @@ The instructions given for extracting the source sets work equally well for the binary sets, but it is worth noting that if you use that method, the files are extracted "below" the current directory. That is, if you want to extract the binaries "into" your system, i.e. -replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xfp" +replace the system binaries with them, you have to run the "tar xpf" from /. Also note that if you upgrade or install this way, those programs that you are using at the time will NOT be replaced unless you run "tar" with the "--unlink" option. If you follow the normal diff --git a/distrib/notes/i386/hardware b/distrib/notes/i386/hardware index 4fadcec55bd7..1652b6a9fbf4 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/i386/hardware +++ b/distrib/notes/i386/hardware @@ -27,7 +27,7 @@ Supported devices include: Adaptec AHA-2x4x[U][W] cards and some onboard PCI designs using the AIC78X0 chip. Adaptec AHA-3940[U][W] cards [b] - Buslogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones) + BusLogic 54x (Adaptec AHA-154x clones) BusLogic 445, 74x, 9xx (But not the new "FlashPoint" series of BusLogic SCSI adapters) Qlogic ISP [12]0x0 SCSI/FibreChannel boards @@ -113,7 +113,7 @@ Supported devices include: SMC/WD 8003, 8013, and the SMC "Elite16" ISA boards SMC/WD 8216 (the SMC "Elite16 Ultra" ISA boards) SMC91C9x-based boards (ISA and PCMCIA) - Texas Intruments ThunderLAN based ethernet boards: + Texas Instruments ThunderLAN based ethernet boards: Compaq Netelligent 10/100 TX Compaq ProLiant Integrated Netelligent 10/100 TX Compaq Netelligent 10 T (untested) @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ AHA-152x, AIC-6260- or AIC-6360-based SCSI host adapters AHA-2X4X or AIC-7XXX-based SCSI host adapters ahc0 any any any -Bus Logic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters +BusLogic BT445, BT74x, or BT9xx SCSI host adapters bha0 0x330 any any bha1 0x334 any any diff --git a/distrib/notes/i386/install b/distrib/notes/i386/install index 8bdfeec7a702..1c883ef149d8 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/i386/install +++ b/distrib/notes/i386/install @@ -109,7 +109,7 @@ you can give an empty response in reply to answers relating to this. -4. The harddisk to install on and its parameters. +4. The hard disk to install on and its parameters. To start the installation, select the menu option to install NetBSD from the main menu. @@ -167,7 +167,7 @@ you can set the type, the start and the size. Setting the type to 'unused' will delete a partition. You can also mark a partition as active, meaning that this is - the one that the BIOS will start from at boottime. + the one that the BIOS will start from at boot time. Be sure to mark the partition you want to boot from as active! @@ -189,7 +189,7 @@ You will be presented with the current layout of the NetBSD disklabel, and given a chance to change it. For each partition, you can set the type, offset and size, - block and fragment size, and the mountpoint. The type + block and fragment size, and the mount point. The type that NetBSD uses for normal file storage is called "4.2BSD". A swap partition has a special type called "swap". You can also specify a partition as type "msdos". This @@ -214,7 +214,7 @@ is a single word and contains no special characters. You don't need to remember this name. -6. Preparing your harddisk +6. Preparing your hard disk YOU ARE NOW AT THE POINT OF NO RETURN. Nothing has been written to your disk yet, but if you confirm that you want to @@ -242,8 +242,8 @@ 7. Getting the distribution sets. [PCMCIA] Load a kernel tar file (i.e. the kern.tgz set file) - on to your harddisk, for example by mounting the - harddisk first, copying the kern.tgz file from + on to your hard disk, for example by mounting the + hard disk first, copying the kern.tgz file from floppy and unpacking it. Example: mount /dev/wd0a /mnt @@ -272,7 +272,7 @@ point of the installation, you will be presented with a menu which enables you to choose from one of the following methods of installing the sets. Some of these methods will first - load the sets on your harddisk, others will extract the sets + load the sets on your hard disk, others will extract the sets directly. For all these methods, the first step is making the sets @@ -294,14 +294,14 @@ You will also be asked to specify the host that you want to transfer the sets from, the directory on that host, - and the accountname and password used to log into that + and the account name and password used to log into that host using ftp. If you did not set up DNS when answering the questions to configure networking, you will need to specify an IP number instead of a hostname for the ftp server. sysinst will proceed to transfer all the default set files - from the remote site to your harddisk. + from the remote site to your hard disk. 7.2 Installation using NFS @@ -327,8 +327,8 @@ 7.3 Installation from CD-ROM When installing from a CD-ROM, you will be asked to specify - the devicename for your CD-ROM player (usually 'cd0'), and - directoryname on the CD-ROM where the distribution files are. + the device name for your CD-ROM player (usually 'cd0'), and + directory name on the CD-ROM where the distribution files are. sysinst will then check if the files are indeed available in the specified location, and proceed to the actual @@ -354,7 +354,7 @@ sets are located. sysinst will then check if it can indeed access the sets at that location. -7.6 Installation from a local directoy +7.6 Installation from a local directory This option assumes that you have already done some preparation yourself. The sets should be located in a directory on a @@ -395,7 +395,7 @@ almost definitely need to be adjusted, and other files in /etc will probably need to be modified, as well. - Some leftover files from the installation may be on your harddisk, + Some leftover files from the installation may be on your hard disk, depending on the procedure you followed. If you find any of the files, you should remove them: diff --git a/distrib/notes/i386/prep b/distrib/notes/i386/prep index 7e656843a427..d62c0643fbe0 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/i386/prep +++ b/distrib/notes/i386/prep @@ -31,18 +31,18 @@ loaded using the BIOS, within the limitations of the BIOS geometry. The install program will check this for you, and will give you a chance to correct this if this is not the case. -If you have not yet installed any other systems on the harddisk +If you have not yet installed any other systems on the hard disk that you plan to install NetBSD on, or if you plan to use the disk entirely for NetBSD, you may wish to check your BIOS settings for the 'Large' or 'LBA' modes, and activate -them for the harddisk in question. While they are not needed +them for the hard disk in question. While they are not needed by NetBSD as such, doing so will remove the limitations mentioned above, and will avoid hassle should you wish to share the disk with other systems. Do NOT change these settings if you already have data on the disk that you want to preserve! In any case, it is wise to check your the BIOS settings for the -harddisk geometry before beginning the installation, and write +hard disk geometry before beginning the installation, and write them down. While this should usually not be needed, it enables you to verify that the install program determines these values correctly. diff --git a/distrib/notes/i386/upgrade b/distrib/notes/i386/upgrade index ae2ce9b91e1c..660608820a15 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/i386/upgrade +++ b/distrib/notes/i386/upgrade @@ -23,7 +23,7 @@ another operating system's partition, before beginning the upgrade process. The upgrade procedure using the sysinst tool is basically the -same as an installation, but without the harddisk partitioning. +same as an installation, but without the hard disk partitioning. Another difference is that existing configuration files in /etc are backed up, and merged with the new files. Getting the binary sets is done in the same manner as the installation procedure; diff --git a/distrib/notes/legal.common b/distrib/notes/legal.common index fdda42d5a7c0..6d9baece5711 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/legal.common +++ b/distrib/notes/legal.common @@ -64,7 +64,7 @@ for the NetBSD Project. This product includes software developed by Jason R. Thorpe - for And Communications, http. + for And Communications, http://www.and.com/. This product includes software developed by Joachim Koenig-Baltes.