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75 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
is 3379ab3fac Warn people to add at least a /usr when asked (whoever really knows better
will know how to ignore that advice).
Warn people not to use the c partitions for anything.
Advice people to use the look-at-disklabel option to find out about the
NetBSD names of their partitions.
1999-07-21 11:35:27 +00:00
is c7113b3b3a add missing colon 1999-07-21 11:25:23 +00:00
is cf9cc23046 Warn users to use 512-byte-sector disks for installation. 1999-06-29 15:44:34 +00:00
is 2aacd1b595 - we support the parallel HyperCom[34]+ ports now.
- while we're here, fix table formatting.
1999-06-28 21:28:37 +00:00
ross c130e42b2e * Delete sun3x from SUBDIR
* The merged contents file didn't work out, so nuke it and put it back
  into each port directory. Most still have the now-pointless conditionals;
  these now should be deleted.
* fix alpha, amiga, and arm32 to delete the maze of twisty little conditionals
1999-05-24 07:03:16 +00:00
is 19277ae203 We support ATAPI CD-ROMs, nowadays 1999-05-05 18:47:40 +00:00
is 30c61c3427 Warn users to quite their PPC co-CPU before booting NetBSD from AmigaOS. 1999-04-27 19:05:16 +00:00
is 7d8031561f Adapt minimum memory and disk requirements to reality:
- due to a pmap bug, really low memory booting doesn't work
- NetBSD-1.4 needs much more disk than earlier releases.
1999-04-26 19:29:45 +00:00
is 655935bd49 Remove comments about additional bootblock remarks, and add additional
remarks about bootblock limitations where they were missing.
1999-04-26 19:18:23 +00:00
is c723b88c83 Add the HyperCom 3+ and 4+ Zorro bus boards to the list of supported devices. 1999-04-18 10:50:17 +00:00
is 14ee1bfb19 Mention a couple of port-specific new features. 1999-04-15 14:49:11 +00:00
is d880ae0c98 We do support the CyberSCSI Mk3/PPC now 1999-04-11 15:12:49 +00:00
is 8f1f6ecaa6 new version number syntax due to new formatting;
yet another release...
1999-04-09 20:55:28 +00:00
is 3945730dbc Update: CS MK III/PPC scsi, ATAPI; mention no-Xserver for Retina Z2 and
A2410.
1999-03-28 21:33:38 +00:00
ross 27fa34dd96 Remove these before someone changes them. There is a common contents file
in distrib/notes/common/contents, conditionalized for the differences
between platform distributions.
1999-03-19 04:52:04 +00:00
is 6edf8af927 Warm about root/swap placement within the first 4 GB of the disk 1999-02-19 15:01:26 +00:00
garbled 851ee9e397 1) Remove all vestiges of tar from src/distrib. Use pax and appropriate
commandlines for all tar operations.  (work supplied by Matt Green)
2) Update arch/*/md.c to deal with new sysinst/run.c.  Special case
anything that needs to do a redirect or a pipe.
3) #if 0 some unused code in target.c. This code will need to be updated,
or special cased with do_system.

Big thank you to Matt for all his work on this.
1999-01-25 23:34:20 +00:00
ross 47503cb65d Makefiles for notes. 1999-01-13 08:42:54 +00:00
ross 6eb9d9ef9a Markup for -mdoc and -mdoc2html. 1999-01-13 07:30:01 +00:00
veego 7a8c25946b Add the Ariadne II to the supported device list. 1998-11-12 19:59:30 +00:00
is fbf4a091d5 Mention that Apollo3060-reworked Amiga 3000 SCSI is supported now. 1998-10-29 20:57:03 +00:00
chopps afe88c71cc s,upgrade,install, 1998-10-07 16:34:12 +00:00
is fc6353f33f Add a warning to reinstall miniroot.fs before retrying installation.
[This is not totally true, but whoever is knowledgable enough to understand
the fineprint, wouldn't need the warning anyway.]
1998-09-27 19:32:59 +00:00
is 93a587345f It's "HyperCOM 3Z", not "HyperCom Z3". 1998-08-09 22:29:01 +00:00
is 3a54f4c95c Clarify description of FPU emulation and A2232 support, the latter on
request of PR 5226 by Eric Delcamp.
1998-06-15 14:21:35 +00:00
is b11b13a868 Add a section about installation from CD-ROM media. 1998-05-15 20:13:02 +00:00
ross 8cb8f7b2b1 Correct spelling in */upgrade. More general editing in alpha/install. 1998-05-12 00:00:18 +00:00
veego 443684836c Remove the comment about a know problem with the Ariadne ethernet card,
because the problem is fixed.
1998-05-09 10:06:52 +00:00
ross bffbd61da4 Untangle the first paragraph in the upgrade notes that were copied
from i386/upgrade.
1998-05-09 03:49:30 +00:00
is 1174dff7b7 Warn about possible Ariadne problem. 1998-02-11 17:23:16 +00:00
is 2beb2bfe73 Add missing parts to "Once your kernel boots". 1998-02-01 16:28:54 +00:00
is ba6183b9a4 Add missing pieces in boot procedure description. 1998-02-01 16:17:08 +00:00
is 44e67ce5cc We don't ship with a FORTRAN compiler... point this out (the old text was
misguiding).
We do ship, however, with an Objective C compiler.
1998-01-28 10:38:10 +00:00
perry 8af87c997a RCS Id Police. 1998-01-09 18:45:24 +00:00
chopps a291a8ed56 add non-rewinding note from 1.3 branch 1997-12-26 02:57:30 +00:00
chopps 4ffc3d408a Update to newer layout grabbing suitable stuff from i386 notes.
Apply fixes from Thorsten Frueauf from pr 4745.
1997-12-24 18:23:48 +00:00
is 2e9378f97a Pulldown from release branch: Make this working English (by Ted Lemon). 1997-12-15 09:04:43 +00:00
is 4478afe5be - add device nodes for explicit high/middle/low density modes of tape
drives, as some drives (like ARCHIVE VIPER 150S) refuse to work with the
  default.
- add a hint about this to the INSTALL document.
1997-12-14 18:46:51 +00:00
is 4a721e0ab2 Change to describe the tape format for the new miniroot. 1997-12-14 18:22:52 +00:00
is 974612b5b1 Add a note about setting drive parameters, inspired by PR 4035 (Jim Dutton). 1997-12-14 18:05:04 +00:00
veego 5be326ee70 Remove the 13 from sets13. 1997-11-30 13:12:04 +00:00
veego 6f94009790 Remove the 13 from sets13 and correct the file sizes. 1997-11-30 13:06:33 +00:00
is 7918303dcf OS 3.1 ROMs are (usually) 40.68 or 40.70, but never 41.xxx 1997-11-30 12:54:52 +00:00
is 7101646a4e Add some missing devices:
- cv64/3d in ZorroII mode
- Melody, HyperCom in the HTML file
1997-11-10 12:45:39 +00:00
mhitch 6d3db8915a Initial updates to document install and upgrades using the MI miniroot.
Update revision numbers for 1.3.
1997-10-31 21:15:46 +00:00
veego 39f42733f4 Increase the recommended size of the /usr partition and rewrite the
comment for the CyberVision64/3D after the Console mode works now.
1997-10-29 20:29:20 +00:00
veego 992d8bfae0 update for the cv64/3d and the hypercom 3 and 4. 1997-10-27 00:28:07 +00:00
is 43a0e5b910 Mention Melody board. 1997-10-17 13:42:00 +00:00
veego 4e9c981391 Update the supported hardware. 1997-10-08 20:10:42 +00:00
is 074614ee2d update 1997-09-30 14:07:35 +00:00