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+/*	$NetBSD: msg.mi.en,v 1.43 1999/06/20 05:48:49 cgd Exp $	*/
+
+/*
+ * Copyright 1997 Piermont Information Systems Inc.
+ * All rights reserved.
+ *
+ * Written by Philip A. Nelson for Piermont Information Systems Inc.
+ *
+ * Redistribution and use in source and binary forms, with or without
+ * modification, are permitted provided that the following conditions
+ * are met:
+ * 1. Redistributions of source code must retain the above copyright
+ *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer.
+ * 2. Redistributions in binary form must reproduce the above copyright
+ *    notice, this list of conditions and the following disclaimer in the
+ *    documentation and/or other materials provided with the distribution.
+ * 3. All advertising materials mentioning features or use of this software
+ *    must display the following acknowledgement:
+ *      This product includes software develooped for the NetBSD Project by
+ *      Piermont Information Systems Inc.
+ * 4. The name of Piermont Information Systems Inc. may not be used to endorse
+ *    or promote products derived from this software without specific prior
+ *    written permission.
+ *
+ * THIS SOFTWARE IS PROVIDED BY PIERMONT INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC. ``AS IS''
+ * AND ANY EXPRESS OR IMPLIED WARRANTIES, INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, THE
+ * IMPLIED WARRANTIES OF MERCHANTABILITY AND FITNESS FOR A PARTICULAR PURPOSE
+ * ARE DISCLAIMED. IN NO EVENT SHALL PIERMONT INFORMATION SYSTEMS INC. BE 
+ * LIABLE FOR ANY DIRECT, INDIRECT, INCIDENTAL, SPECIAL, EXEMPLARY, OR 
+ * CONSEQUENTIAL DAMAGES (INCLUDING, BUT NOT LIMITED TO, PROCUREMENT OF 
+ * SUBSTITUTE GOODS OR SERVICES; LOSS OF USE, DATA, OR PROFITS; OR BUSINESS
+ * INTERRUPTION) HOWEVER CAUSED AND ON ANY THEORY OF LIABILITY, WHETHER IN
+ * CONTRACT, STRICT LIABILITY, OR TORT (INCLUDING NEGLIGENCE OR OTHERWISE)
+ * ARISING IN ANY WAY OUT OF THE USE OF THIS SOFTWARE, EVEN IF ADVISED OF 
+ * THE POSSIBILITY OF SUCH DAMAGE.
+ *
+ */
+
+/* MI Message catalog -- english, machine independent */
+
+message usage
+{usage: sysinst [-r release]
+}
+
+message yes {Yes}
+
+message no {No}
+
+message install
+{install}
+
+message reinstall
+{re-install sets for}
+
+message upgrade
+{upgrade}
+
+message hello
+{Welcome to sysinst, the NetBSD-@@VERSION@@ system installation tool.
+This menu-driven tool is designed to help you install NetBSD to a hard
+disk, or upgrade an existing NetBSD system, with a minimum of work.
+In the following menus, you may change the current selection by
+either typing the reference letter (a, b, c, ...).  Arrow keys may also work.
+You activate the current selection from the menu by typing the enter key.
+
+If you booted from a floppy, you may now remove the disk.
+
+Thank you for using NetBSD!
+}
+
+message installusure
+{You have chosen to install NetBSD on your hard disk.  This will change
+information on your hard disk.  You should have made a full backup
+before this procedure!  This procedure will do the following things:
+	a) Partition your disk
+	b) Create new BSD file systems
+	c) Load and install distribution sets
+
+(After you enter the partition information but before your disk is 
+changed, you will have the opportunity to quit this procedure.)
+Shall we continue?  
+}
+
+message upgradeusure
+{Ok, lets upgrade NetBSD on your hard disk.  As always, this will
+change information on your hard disk.  You should have made a full backup
+before this procedure!  Do you really want to upgrade NetBSD?
+(This is your last warning before this procedure starts modifying your
+disks.)
+}
+
+message reinstallusure
+{Ok, lets unpack the NetBSD distribution sets to a bootable hard disk.
+This procedure just fetches and unpacks sets onto an pre-partitioned
+bootable disk. It does not label disks, upgrade bootblocks, or save
+any existing configuration info.  (Quit and choose `install' or
+`upgrade' if you want those options.)  You should have already done an
+`install' or `upgrade' before starting this procedure!
+
+Do you really want to re-install NetBSD distribution sets?
+(This is your last warning before this procedure starts modifying your
+disks.)
+}
+
+
+message nodisk
+{I can not find any hard disks for use by NetBSD.  You will be
+returned to the original menu.
+}
+
+message onedisk
+{I found only one disk, %s.  Therefore I assume you want to %s
+NetBSD on it.
+}
+
+message askdisk
+{I have found the following disks: %s
+\nOn which disk do you want to install NetBSD? }
+
+message badname
+{You did not choose one of the listed disks.  Please try again.
+The following disks are available: %s
+\nOn which disk do you want to install NetBSD? }
+
+message disktoosmall
+{Your hard disk is too small for a standard install. You will have to enter
+the partitions size by hand.
+}
+
+message pleasemountroot
+{The root device is not mounted.  Please mount it.
+
+Your selected target disk %s also holds the current root device.  I
+need to know whether I'm currently running out of the target root
+(%sa), or out of an alternate root (say, in %sb, your swap partition).
+I can't tell unless you mount the root.
+
+I'm aborting back to the main menu so you can fork a subshell.
+}
+
+message cylinders
+{cylinders}
+
+message heads
+{heads}
+
+message sectors
+{sectors}
+
+message size
+{size}
+
+message start
+{start}
+
+message offset
+{offset}
+
+message bsize
+{block size}
+
+message fsize
+{frag size}
+
+message mountpoint
+{mount point}
+
+message cylname
+{cyl}
+
+message secname
+{sec}
+
+message megname
+{meg}
+
+message layout
+{NetBSD uses a BSD disklabel to carve up the NetBSD portion of the disk
+into multiple BSD partitions.  You must now set up your BSD disklabel.
+You have several choices.  They are summarized below.
+-- Standard: the BSD disklabel partitions are computed by this program.
+-- Standard with X: twice the swap space, space for X binaries.
+-- Custom: you specify the sizes of all the BSD disklabel partitions.
+
+The NetBSD part of your disk is %.2f Megabytes.
+Standard requires at least %.2f Megabytes.
+Standard with X requires at least %.2f Megabytes.
+}
+
+message sizechoice
+{You have elected to specify partition sizes (either for the BSD
+disklabel, or on some ports, for MBR slices). You must first choose a
+size unit to use.  Choosing megabytes will give partition sizes close
+to your choice, but aligned to cylinder boundaries. Choosing sectors
+will allow you to more acurately specify the sizes.  On modern ZBR disks,
+acutal cylinder size varies across the disk and there is little real
+gain from cylinder alignment. On older disks, it is most efficient to
+choose partition sizes that are exact multiples of your actual
+cylinder size, which is %d sectors.
+}
+
+message defaultunit
+{Unless specified with 'M' (megabytes), 'c' (cylinders) or 's' sector
+at the end of input, sizes and offsets are in %s.
+}
+
+message startoutsidedisk
+{The start value you specified is beyond the end of the disk.
+}
+
+message endoutsidedisk
+{With this value, the partition end is beyond the end of the disk. Your
+partition size has been truncated to %d %s.
+}
+
+message fspart
+{We now have your BSD-disklabel partitions as (Size and Offset in %s):
+}
+
+message fspart_head
+{id:      Size    Offset       End FStype Bsize Fsize Mount point
+---      ----    ------       --- ------ ----- ----- -----------
+}
+
+
+message edfspart
+{You should set the file system (FS) kind first.  Then set the other values.
+
+The current values for partition %c are:
+
+}
+
+message not42bsd
+{Partition %c is not of type 4.2BSD and thus does not have a block and
+frag size to set.
+}
+
+message packname
+{Please enter a name for your NetBSD disk}
+
+message lastchance
+{Ok, we are now ready to install NetBSD on your hard disk.  Nothing has been
+written yet.  This is your last chance to quit this process before anything
+gets changed.  Shall we continue?
+}
+
+message disksetupdone
+{Okay, the first part of the procedure is finished. sysinst has
+written a disklabel to the target disk, and newfs'ed and fsck'ed
+the new partitions you specified for the target disk.
+If you see error messages above that indicate problems with the
+target-disk filesystems -- especially / and /usr --  abort now.
+
+If the target filesystems look good, the next step is to fetch and
+unpack the distribution filesets.  Press <return> to proceed.
+}
+
+message openfail
+{Could not open %s, error message was: %s.
+}
+
+message statfail
+{Can't get properties of %s, error message was: %s.
+}
+
+message unlink_fail
+{I was unable to delete %s, error message was: %s.
+}
+
+message rename_fail
+{I was unable to rename %s to %s, error message was: %s.
+}
+
+message deleting_files
+{As part of the upgrade procedure, the following have to be deleted:
+}
+
+message deleting_dirs
+{As part of the upgrade procedure, the following directories have to be
+deleted (I will rename those that are not empty):
+}
+
+message renamed_dir
+{The directory %s has been renamed to %s because it was not empty.
+}
+
+message cleanup_warn
+{Cleanup of the existing install failed. This may cause cause the extraction
+of the set to fail.
+}
+
+message nomount
+{Partition %c's type is not 4.2BSD or msdos and therefore does not have
+a mount point.}
+
+message mountfail
+{mount of device %s on %s failed.
+}
+
+message dotar
+{Populating filesystems with bootstrapping binaries and config files...\n}
+
+message dotarfail
+{The bootstrapping binaries and config file installation failed.
+Can't continue ...}
+
+message instcomplete
+{The installation of NetBSD-@@VERSION@@ is now complete.  The system
+should boot from hard disk.  Follow the instructions in the INSTALL
+document about final configuration of your system.
+
+At a minimum, you should set a root password and edit /etc/rc.conf to
+match your needs.
+}
+
+message unpackcomplete
+{The upgrade to NetBSD-@@VERSION@@ is now complete.  You will
+now need to follow the instructions in the INSTALL document as to 
+what you need to do to get your system re-configured for your
+situation.  Your old /etc has been saved as /etc.old.
+
+At a minimum, you must edit rc.conf for your local environmment and change
+rc_configured=NO to rc_configured=YES or reboots will stop at single-user.
+}
+
+
+message upgrcomplete
+{Unpacking additional release sets of NetBSD-@@VERSION@@ is now
+complete.  Unpacking sets has clobbered the target /etc.  Any /etc.old
+saved by an earlier upgrade was not touched.  You will now need to
+follow the instructions in the INSTALL document to get your system
+re-configured for your situation.
+
+At a minimum, you must edit rc.conf for your local environmment and change
+rc_configured=NO to rc_configured=YES or reboots will stop at single-user.
+}
+
+message distmedium
+{Your disk is now ready for installing the kernel and the distribution
+sets.  As noted in your INSTALL notes, you have several options.  For
+ftp or nfs, you must be connected to a network with access to the proper
+machines.  If you are not ready complete the installation at this time,
+you may select "none" and you will be returned to the main menu.  When
+you are ready at a later time, you may select "upgrade" from the main
+menu to complete the installation.
+}
+
+message distset
+{The NetBSD distribution is broken into a collection of distribution
+sets.  There are some basic sets that are needed by all installations
+and there are some other sets that are not needed by all installations.
+You may choose to install all of them (Full installation) or you 
+select from the optional distribution sets.
+}
+
+message ftpsource
+{The following is the ftp site, directory, user, and password currently
+ready to use.  If "user" is "ftp", then the password is not needed.
+
+host:      %s
+directory: %s
+user:      %s
+password:  }
+
+message host
+{host}
+
+message dir
+{directory}
+
+message user
+{user}
+
+message passwd
+{password}
+
+message email
+{e-mail address}
+
+message dev
+{device}
+
+message nfssource
+{Enter the nfs host and server directory where the distribution is
+located.  Remember, the directory should contain the .tgz files and
+must be nfs mountable.
+
+host:      %s
+directory: %s
+}
+
+message nfsbadmount
+{The directory %s:%s could not be nfs mounted.}
+
+message cdromsource
+{Enter the CDROM device to be used and directory on the CDROM where
+the distribution is located.  Remember, the directory should contain
+the .tgz files.
+
+device:    %s
+directory: %s
+}
+
+message localfssource
+{Enter the unmounted local device and directory on that device where
+the distribution is located.  Remember, the directory should contain
+the .tgz files.
+
+device:     %s
+filesystem: %s
+directory:  %s
+}
+
+message localdir
+{Enter the already-mounted local directory where the distribution is
+located.  Remember, the directory should contain the .tgz files.
+
+directory:  %s
+}
+
+message filesys
+{filesystem}
+
+message cdrombadmount
+{The CDROM could not be mounted on device %s.}
+
+message localfsbadmount
+{%s could not be mounted on local device %s.}
+
+message badlocalsetdir
+{%s is not a directory}
+
+message badsetdir 
+{%s does not contain the mandatory installation sets
+base.tgz and kern.tgz.  Are you sure you'e got the right directory?}
+
+message nonet
+{I can not find any network interfaces for use by NetBSD.  You will be
+returned to the previous menu.
+}
+
+message asknetdev
+{I have found the following network interfaces: %s
+\nWhich device shall I use?}
+
+message badnet
+{You did not choose one of the listed network devices.  Please try again.
+The following network devices are available: %s
+\nWhich device shall I use?}
+
+message netinfo
+{To be able to use the network, we need answers to the following:
+
+}
+
+message net_domain
+{Your domain}
+
+message net_host
+{Your host name}
+
+message net_ip
+{Your IP number}
+
+message net_mask
+{Netmask}
+
+message net_namesrv
+{IP of your name server}
+
+message net_defroute
+{IP of your gateway}
+
+message net_media
+{Network media type}
+
+message netok
+{The following are the values you entered.  Are they OK?
+
+Domain:        %s
+Host Name:     %s
+Host IP:       %s
+Netmask:       %s
+Nameserver IP: %s
+Gateway IP:    %s
+Media type:    %s
+}
+
+message netagain
+{Please reenter the information about your network.  Your last answers
+will be your default.
+
+}
+
+message resolv
+{Could not create /etc/resolv.conf.  Install aborted.
+}
+
+message realdir
+{Could not change to directory %s: %s.  Install aborted.
+}
+
+message ftperror_cont
+{Ftp detected an error.  Press <return> to continue.}
+
+message ftperror
+{Ftp could not retreive a file.  Do you want to try again?}
+
+message distdir
+{What directory shall I use for %s? }
+
+message verboseextract
+{During the extraction process, do you want to see the file names as
+each file is extracted?
+}
+
+message badls
+{Could not run /bin/ls.  This error should not have happened. Install aborted.
+}
+
+message notarfile
+{Release set %s does not exist.
+}
+
+message endtarok
+{All selected distribution sets unpacked successfully.}
+
+message endtar
+{There were problems unpacking distribution sets.
+Your installation is incomplete. 
+
+You selected %d distribution sets.  I couldn't find %d of those sets at all.
+Of the %d that were found, %d unpacked without errors and %d with errors.
+
+The installation is aborted. Please recheck your distribution source
+and consider re-installing sets from the main menu.}
+
+message abort
+{Your choices have made it impossible to install NetBSD.  Install aborted.
+}
+
+message abortinst
+{The distribution was not successfully loaded.  You will need to proceed
+by hand.  Installation aborted.
+}
+
+message abortupgr
+{The distribution was not successfully loaded.  You will need to proceed
+by hand.  Upgrade aborted.
+}
+
+message abortunpack
+{Unpacking additional sets was not successful.  You will need to
+proceed by hand, or choose a different source for release sets and try
+again.
+}
+
+message anonprog
+{sysinst: running "%s"
+}
+
+message anonprogfailed
+{
+The program "%s" failed unexpectedly with return code %s.
+
+This is probably due to choosing the incorrect top-level install
+option---like trying to do an Upgrade on a bare disk, or doing a fresh
+Install on an already-running system.  Or it might be due to a
+mispackaged miniroot.  Whatever the cause, sysinst did not expect any
+errors here and the installation has almost certainly failed.
+
+Check the error messages above and proceed with *extreme* caution.
+Press <return> to continue.}
+
+message progdie
+{
+sysinst: Execution of "%s" failed unexpectedly with error code  %s.
+Cannot recover, aborting.
+}
+
+message createfstab
+{There is a big problem!  Can not create /mnt/etc/fstab.  Bailing out!
+}
+
+
+message noetcfstab
+{Help! No /etc/fstab in target disk %s.  Aborting upgrade.
+}
+
+message badetcfstab
+{Help! Can't parse /etc/fstab in target disk %s.  Aborting upgrade.
+}
+
+message etc_oldexists 
+{I cannot save /etc as /etc.old, because the target disk already has an
+/etc.old. Please fix this before continuing.
+
+One way is to start a shell from the Utilities menu, examine the
+target /etc and /etc.old.  If /etc.old is from a completed upgrade,
+you can rm -f etc.old and restart.  Or if /etc.old is from a recent,
+incomplete upgrade, you can rm -f /etc and mv etc.old to /etc.
+
+Aborting upgrade.}
+
+message netnotup
+{There was a problem in setting up the network.  Either your gateway
+or your nameserver was not reachable by a ping.  Do you want to
+configure your network again?  (No aborts the install process.)
+}
+
+message makedev
+{Making device files ...
+}
+
+message badfs
+{It appears that %s%s is not a BSD file system or the fsck was
+not successfull.  The upgrade has been aborted.  (Error number %d.)
+}
+
+message badmount
+{Your file system %s%s was not successfully mounted.  Upgrade aborted.}
+
+message upgrinode
+{Your file system, %s, is using an old inode format.  If you are
+using only NetBSD on these file systems, it is recommended that 
+they are upgraded.  Do you want this file system upgraded?
+}
+
+message rootmissing
+{ target root is missing %s.
+}
+
+message badroot
+{The completed new root fileystem failed a basic sanity check.
+ Are you sure you installed all the required sets?
+}
+
+message fddev
+{What floppy device do you want to use? }
+
+message fdmount
+{Please load the floppy containing the file named "%s". }
+
+message fdnotfound
+{Could not find the file named "%s" on the disk.  Please load the
+floppy with that file on it.}
+
+message fdremount
+{The floppy was not mounted successfully.  You may:
+
+    Try again and put in the floppy containing the file named "%s".
+
+    Not load any more files from floppy and abort the process.
+}
+
+message mntnetconfig
+{Is the network information you entered accurate for this machine
+in regular operation and do you want it installed in /etc? }
+
+message cur_distsets
+{The following is the list of distribution sets that will be used.
+
+}
+
+message tarerror
+{There was an error in extracting the file %s.  That means some files
+were not extracted correctly and your system will not be complete.
+The installation is aborting.
+
+Press CR to continue after a short delay.}
+
+message etc_hosts
+{
+#
+#Added by NetBSD sysinst
+#
+%s %s.%s %s
+127.0.0.1 localhost
+}
+
+message partitions_overlap
+{partitions %c and %c overlap.}
+
+message edit_partitions_again
+{
+
+You can either edit the partition table by hand, or give up and return
+to the main menu.
+
+Edit the partition table again?}
+
+message not_regular_file
+{Config file %s is not a regular file.\n}
+
+message out_of_memory
+{Out of memory (malloc failed).\n}
+
+message config_open_error
+{Could not open config file %s\n}
+
+message config_read_error
+{Could not read config file %s\n}
+
+message nobiosgeom
+{Sysinst could not automatically determine the BIOS geometry of the disk.
+The physical geometry is % cylinders %d sectors %d heads\n}
+
+message biosguess
+{Using the information already on the disk, my best guess for the BIOS
+geometry is %d cylinders %d sectors %d heads\n}
+
+message cmdfail
+{Command
+        %s
+failed. I can't continue.}
+
+message noactivepart
+{You have not marked a partition active. This may cause your system to not
+start up properly. Should the NetBSD partition of the disk be marked active?}
+
+message upgradeparttype
+{The only suitable partition that was found for NetBSD installation is of
+the old NetBSD/386BSD/FreeBSD partition type. Do you want to change the type
+of this partition to the new NetBSD-only partition type?}