provided more detail when necessary and removed extraneous instructions.
hardware: totally revamped to be more readable and include all known
supported hardware, now matches htdocs/Ports/sparc/hardware.html
install: new section on CD-ROM, netboot has instructions on setting up a
NetBSD server, removed disklabel instructions (miniroot/sysboot's
instructions are clear enough and have error-checking anyways)
prep: reorganized, put in cleaner explanation of SCSI target remapping on
OpenBOOT PROM 1 machines, put in instructions on how to figure out names
ROM uses for SCSI device, put in info about 100BaseTX network cards
upgrade: now points to ../common/upgrade
- a bootable bootfs which contains a spartan md-based `ramdisk'
filesystem, which loads the tar file image:
- instfs, which is constructed from the miniroot filesystem
and contains all installation utilities.
The current miniroot image also supersedes the former separate
{bootfs,ramdisk}.sysinst tools.
you really should not be changing the geometry values, unless they
look totally ridiculous due to some BIOS bug.
Disable manual entering of initial partition label values when doing
a custom label. The step was redundant. Just go to the label edit
directly, leaving everything but the c and d partitions empty.
- "this is the xxx major release"
- features added and bugs fixed in 1.5
- use .Nx instead of NetBSD
- use .Sq instead of ' [...] ' or ` [ ... ] '
- use .Dq instead of " [...] "
seperate booleans. Add flags to run as a plain 'system()' command,
fullscreen (but on a pty), and chrooted, and implement their
functionality. Add a bit of TIOCPKT handling code to handle
programs messing with term settings better.
* Ask to set the root password at the end of an install.
* Remove a few unneeded comments.
* Sprinkle some touchwin() calls here and there to make the output cleaner.
They shouldn't really be needed, but even normal usage (no syslog
messages) even left the screen messy sometimes.
* Change some messages around that were apparently swapped by accident and
thus caused confusion.
"target" filesystem, i.e. a filesystem that will probably be
mounted on /mnt during install/upgrade, but will be / when
the system is booted. Needed to deal with absolute symbolic links.
This function is (unfortunately) a verbatim copy of realpath() from libc,
with prefix handling added.
- define string `A' to contain the arch name (defaults to the port
name)
- define registers \*A and _\*A if
- deprecate _FOR_RELEASE, and just use FOR_RELEASE
- update for 1.5 (still more MD stuff to check)
- use new macros in ../common/macros as appropriate
- introduce some CONSISTENCY between the various ports' install docs
- use various mdoc macros as appropriate, including .Li, .Pa, .Sy, and .Ic.
- migrate more stuff into ../common/*
- whitespace cleanup
- lots of other little things i'm sure...
- optimize suggested commands (e.g, tar usage, ...)
- consistently use `@netbsd.org' in email addresses
- remember to thank the people who host the WWW, GNATS, CVS and CVSweb servers
- add blurb about trademark ownership
- update MACHINE_LIST for the 31 ports we support (as of 1.5)
- define registers for MACHINE_ARCH, depending upon \*M; may set one
of the following as appropriate: _m68k, _mips, _powerpc, _sh3
- change to using various new macros added in ../common/macros
and doesn't explicitly provide a .It
- add .(bullet & .bullet), which provide bulleted/hyphenated lists.
(alternates between -bullet & -hyphen at each alternate depth).
.(bullet does .It as well.
- add .(enum & .enum); enumerated list. the former does .It as well
- add .(item & .item); enumerated list. the former does .It as well
- add .Nx*M, which generates `NetBSD/machine', except that `NetBSD'
is done using .Nx so gets the appropriate markup from that
- remove .(note and .note), leaving .(Note and .Note)
- document \*M, \*V, \*[.CURDIR]
is used only by the X server, and should be grouped there. Later we may
also add unconditional install of the source-form "rgb.txt", usable by all
programs, into xbase.
This allows the xbase set to be shared between the mipsel platforms, and all
m68k platforms except atari (which has additional XF86 add-ons).
- suggest looking in /etc/defaults/rc.conf or rc.conf(5) for rc.conf settings
- spell "separate" correctly
- use "third party" instead of "3rd party"
- move notes about /etc/localtime; sysinst does it for us
- update copyright date
by checking uname, or the BOOTMODEL environment var), and set
the kernel setname accordingly for some bootmodels (tiny and laptop),
to install GENERIC_TINY and GENERIC_LAPTOP respectively. There's
no sense in installing plain GENERIC, especially on "tiny" systems;
it may not even make it far enough to add swapspace on 4M machines.
* Make sure to always install bootcode into the MBR (unless the user
explicitly tells us not to). Should fix PR#8887, PR#9093, PR#9999
consistent with what FreeBSD uses /etc/defaults for, and since SVR4
uses /etc/default for another purpose.
as discussed on tech-userlevel, and no objections were made.
floppies as long as they fit, but they are the first to be sacrificed
if space is short, and get moved to a seperate rescue floppy.
This means that the default fdset and the 2.88M image have them,
but others (the "small" and "tiny" floppies) do not.
Sysinst is also back on the "tiny" image, and tested to be working
within 4M.
enabling and disabling swap. Enabling swap is currently only
done by the i386 port on systems with <= 8M of physical memory.
If a user re-enters the install procedure through the main menu,
and the target disk has an active swap partition, try to disable it,
warning the user that this might lead to 'out of swap' problems,
making a restart necessary. This should not happen very often.
Partly based on comments by Simon Burge.
rather over the top. Not doing this also means that test(1) can
be omitted from the ramdisks (for scripts it's not needed, because it
is built in to sh(1)).
