+ ARM ABI change
+ new users
+ new groups
- add modules set where missing
- formatting improvements
- note that rtsol{,d} will be gone in the future
- fix raw partition info
- update sparc64 hardware support
- remove note about sparc SMP support being broken
- update some size requirements (still lots of ancient bogus RAM
minimums lingering -- HI PORTMASTERS!)
- various other minor content modernization
- whitespace fixes
Finally we could close another ancient PR port-arc/11443.
After several years, we got the native bootloader and then had
sysinst which would do apprpriate partitioning for the bootloader,
so I've noted the last difficult part, how to specify boot commands
on the ARC BIOS.
I still wonder how many possible users of NetBSD/arc are there
who will need this topic though... ;-p
>> ../common/sysinst:1657: warning: macro `doc-pcresult' not defined
Use only ".Sy" for set names as common/contents and common/main.
XXX amiga/install, macppc/hardware, and sparc/prep still have them.
.***********************************************.
* NetBSD-4.99.51 Install System * <==
* *
*>a: Install NetBSD to hard disk *
* b: Upgrade NetBSD on a hard disk *
- While reading install/12957 it was suggested
(http://mail-index.netbsd.org/port-i386/2006/11/27/0000.html)
that all notes, marked with '[PCMCIA]' should go and be
replaced with a more generic explanation about removable
devices.
- I noticed the HTML output concatenates 'NetBSD' and '4.0',
which is ugly.
- The IP addresses for ftp.NetBSD.org are wrong.
Cleanup dd options accordingly to the following policy:
1) put if, of, bs, conv in this order
2) for reading/writing from/to disk don't use sync
4) reading from tape - use sync
3) writing to tape - use osync
Noted by Don Yuniskis (auryn at gci-net.com) via install/13749. Thanks!
Reviewed by <martin>. Thank you!
* Remove mentions of old releases
* More details how to drop into ddb
* Try to mention booting from CD instead of floppies on i386
* Mention mbrlabel(8) to get existing MBR partitions into a disklabel
* Default disklabel name doesn't seem to be "mydisk" any longer
(judging by this week's installation of 2.0_BETA/i386)
* Mention that DHCP will be offered
Todo:
* Enter size of extracted sets w/o X and of X sets (done for 2.0/i386)
(Portmasters?)
state of reality: comment out O2 references since 1.6 won't support the
O2, add notes on installing via a net-booted kernel, disk partitioning
(disk must have IRIX volhdr, one-disk split NetBSD/IRIX install has not
been tested and may/may not work). Also expand/add some examples.
XXX: Should add info on the "extra" kernel sets like the INSTALL_INDY,
etc. sets.
snj