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Remove unnecessary .Pps, use .Nx for NetBSD, sort sections.

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.\" $NetBSD: newbtconf.8,v 1.6 2001/08/20 12:00:49 wiz Exp $
.\" $NetBSD: newbtconf.8,v 1.7 2001/11/16 12:03:54 wiz Exp $
.\"
.\" Copyright (c) 1999 Darren Reed. All rights reserved.
.\"
@ -46,7 +46,6 @@ selection of environments in which to boot the system up into.
The most obvious application being for laptops to provide a network
and non-network environment after a successful boot into multi-user mode.
.Ss Background
.Pp
In order to accomplish this task, the files usually associated with
establishing the current system's running configuration are replaced with
symbolic links which are adjusted with each boot to point to the appropriate
@ -77,8 +76,9 @@ with every boot),
.Pa /etc/etc.default
is not automatically updated.
.Ss Getting Started
.Pp
By default, NetBSD only has one boot-up configuration - that set in the
By default,
.Nx
only has one boot-up configuration - that set in the
file
.Pa /etc/rc.conf .
In order to initialize the system for operating in a
@ -112,7 +112,7 @@ that directory and symbolic links put in their place, in /etc, pointing to
.Ed
.Pp
To test that this has been performed correctly, reboot your system into
NetBSD.
.Nx .
After the kernel has autoconfigured and tty flags have been set,
a prompt should appear, preceded by the following like, looking like this:
.Bd -literal
@ -126,7 +126,6 @@ If there were other configurations available at this stage, you would
have 30 seconds to enter that name and press
.Sy RETURN .
.Ss Multiple Configurations
.Pp
Once an initial configuration has been setup, we can proceed to setup further
run time environments.
This is done by invoking
@ -171,7 +170,9 @@ Which configuration [nonet] ?
.Ed
.Ss No Network
Assuming that we performed the above command successfully, in order to
successfully configure NetBSD to not configure interfaces (or generate no
successfully configure
.Nx
to not configure interfaces (or generate no
errors from attempting to do so), the following settings (at least) should
be used in
.Pa /etc/etc.nonet/rc.conf :
@ -219,8 +220,11 @@ The
.Nm
program first appeared in
.Nx 1.5 .
.Sh AUTHORS
This shell script was written by Darren Reed <darrenr@netbsd.org> with
initial input from Matthew Green <mrg@netbsd.org> on how to approach this
problem.
.Sh BUGS
.Pp
It presently does not display a count down timer whilst waiting for input
to select which configuration and nor does it abort said timer when a key
is first pressed.
@ -229,7 +233,3 @@ The management of the overall collection of multiple configurations is much
more manual than it ought to be.
A general system configuration tool needs to be written to ease their
management.
.Sh AUTHORS
This shell script was written by Darren Reed <darrenr@netbsd.org> with
initial input from Matthew Green <mrg@netbsd.org> on how to approach this
problem.