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Find your favorite disk partitioning utility. Any formatter
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capable of partitioning a SCSI disk should work. Some
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of the ones that have been tried and seem to work are:
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HD SC Setup from Apple
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Hard Disk ToolKit from FWB
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SCSI Directory Lite
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Disk Manager Mac from OnTrack
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Silverlining from LaCie
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APS Disk Tools
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Apple's HD SC Setup is probably the easiest to use and the most
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commonly available. Instructions for patching HD SC Setup
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so that it will recognize non-Apple drives is available at:
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http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html
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First, you need to choose a drive on which to install NetBSD.
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Try to pick a drive with a low SCSI ID number, especially if you
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are likely to add or remove drives to your SCSI chain in the
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future.
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** NOTE: be sure you have a reliable backup of any data
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** which you may want to keep. Repartitioning your hard
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** drive is an excellent way to destroy important data.
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Second, decide how you want to set up your partitions. At
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minimum, you need a partition to hold the NetBSD installation (the
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root partition) and a partition to serve as swap. You may choose
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to use more than one partition to hold the installation. This
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allows you to separate the more vital portions of the filesystem
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(such as the kernel and the /etc directory) from the more volatile
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parts of the filesystem. Typical setups place the /usr directory
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on a separate partition from the root partition. Generally, the
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root partition can be fairly small while the /usr partition should
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be fairly large. If you plan to use this machine as a server, you
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may also want a separate /var partition.
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Once you have decided how to lay out your partitions, you need
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calculate how much space to allocate to each partition. A minimal
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install of NetBSD (i.e. netbsd13, base13, and etc13) should fit in
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a 30M partition. For a full installation, you should allocate at
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least 80M. A general rule of thumb for sizing the swap partition
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is to allocate twice as much swap space as you have real memory.
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Having your swap + real memory total at least 20M is also a good
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ideo. Systems that will be heavily used or that are low on real
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memory should have more swap space allocated. Systems that
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will be only lightly used or have a very large amount of real
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memory can get away with less.
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Next, use your favorite partitioning utility to make partitions of
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the necessary sizes. You can use any type of partition, but
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partitions of type "Apple_Free" might save you some confusion in
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the future.
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You are now set to install NetBSD on your hard drive.
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