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for booting so completely destroying all existing partitions may be ill-advised. Should fix PR 6341 from John Refling (refling@comet.lbl.gov).
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.\" $NetBSD: prep,v 1.9 1999/05/31 06:54:31 ender Exp $
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Find your favorite disk partitioning utility. Any formatter capable of
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partitioning a SCSI disk should work. Some of the ones that have been
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tried and seem to work are:
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.Pp
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.Bl -bullet -compact
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.It
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Apple HD SC Setup
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.It
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Hard Disk ToolKit from FWB
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.It
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SCSI Director Lite
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.It
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Disk Manager Mac from OnTrack
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.It
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Silverlining from LaCie
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.It
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APS Disk Tools
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.El
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.Pp
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Apple's HD SC Setup is probably the easiest to use and the most commonly
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available. Instructions for patching HD SC Setup so that it will recognize
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non-Apple drives is available at:
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.Pp
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.Lk http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html
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.Pp
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First, you need to choose a drive on which to install
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.Nx .
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Try to pick a
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drive with a low SCSI ID number, especially if you are likely to add or
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remove drives to your SCSI chain in the future.
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.(tag Note:
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.Em Be sure you have a reliable backup
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.Em of any data which you may want to
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.Em keep. Repartitioning your hard drive is an
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.Em excellent way to destroy important data.
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.tag)
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.Pp
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Second, decide how you want to set up your partitions. At minimum, you
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need a partition to hold the
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.Nx
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installation (the root partition) and a
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partition to serve as swap. You may choose to use more than one partition
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to hold the installation. This allows you to separate the more vital
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portions of the filesystem (such as the kernel and the
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.Pa /etc No directory) from
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the more volatile parts of the filesystem. Typical setups place the
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.Pa /usr
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directory on a separate partition from the root partition. Generally, the
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root partition can be fairly small while the
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.Pa /usr No partition should be
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fairly large. If you plan to use this machine as a server, you may also
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want a separate
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.Pa /var No partition.
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.Pp
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Once you have decided how to lay out your partitions, you need to calculate
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how much space to allocate to each partition. A minimal install of
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.Nx
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(i.e.
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.Pa netbsd.tgz , base.tgz , No and
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.Pa etc.tgz )
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should just fit in a 32M partition.
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For a full installation, you should allocate at least 95M (150M if you
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wish to install the X sets as well). A general rule of thumb for sizing
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the swap partition is to allocate twice as much swap space as you have
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real memory. Having your swap + real memory total at least 20M is also
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a good idea. 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 will be only
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lightly used or have a very large amount of real memory can get away
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with less.
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.Pp
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Keep in mind that
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.Nx
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currently requires MacOS in order to boot, so it is likely that you will
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want to keep at least a minimal install of MacOS around on an HFS
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partition for this purpose. The size of this partition may vary depending
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on the size requirements for the version of MacOS you are using. Of
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course, if you have MacOS on another hard drive or can boot from a floppy,
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feel free to dedicate the entire drive to
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.Nx .
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.Pp
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Next, use your favorite partitioning utility to make partitions of the
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necessary sizes. You can use any type of partition, but partitions of type
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"Apple_Free" might save you some confusion in the future.
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.Pp
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You are now set to install
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.Nx
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on your hard drive.
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