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78 lines
2.5 KiB
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You will need an AmigaDOS hard drive prep tool to prepare you hard
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drives for use with NetBSD/amiga. HDToolBox is provided with the
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system software and on floppy installation disks since Release 2.0
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of AmigaDOS so we will provide instructions for its use.
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Preparing you hard disk with HDToolBox:
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A full explanation of HDToolBox can be found with your
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AmigaDOS manuals and is beyond the scope of this document.
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Note you will be modifying your HD's if you mess something
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up here you could lose everything on all the drives that
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you configure. It is therefore advised that you:
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Write down your current configurations. Do this
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by examining each partition on the drive and the
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drives parameters (from Change drive type.)
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Back up the partitions you are keeping.
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What you need to do is partition your drives; creating
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at least root, swap and /usr partitions and possibly at least
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one more for /local if you have the space.
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This should be done as the HDToolBox manual describes. One thing
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to note is that if you are not using a Commodore controller you
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will need to specify the device your SCSI controller uses e.g.
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if you have a Warp Engine you would:
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from cli,
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hdtoolbox warpdrive.device
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from wb set the tooltype,
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SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=warpdrive.device
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The important things you need to do above and beyond normal
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partitioning includes (from Partition Drive section):
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Marking all NetBSD partitions as non-bootable.
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Changing the file system parameters of the partitions
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to NetBSD ones. This must be done from the
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partitioning section and `Advanced options' must
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be enabled. To Make the needed changes:
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- Click the `Adv. Options' button
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- Click the `Change filesystem' button
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- Choose `Custom File System'
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- Turn off `Automount' if on.
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- Set the dostype to one of these three choices:
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root partition : 0x4e425207
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swap partition : 0x4e425301
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other partitions: 0x4e425507
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Here `other' refers to other partitions you will
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format for reading and writing under NetBSD (e.g.
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/usr)
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Make sure you hit the return key to enter this value
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as some versions of HDToolBox will forget your entry
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if you don't.
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- Turn custom boot code off
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- Set Reserved Blocks start and end to 0.
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- Click Ok.
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Mask and maxtransfer are not used with NetBSD.
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Until you compile your own kernel your swap partition
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must exist on the drive that also holds your root
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partition.
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Once this is done NetBSD/amiga will be able to recognize your
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disks and which partitions it should use.
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