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.\" $NetBSD: prep,v 1.24 2000/11/07 22:10:17 is Exp $
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You will need an
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.Tn AmigaDOS
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hard drive prep tool to prepare your hard
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drives for use with
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.Nx*M .
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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
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.Tn AmigaDOS ,
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so we will provide instructions for its use.
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.Pp
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Note that
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.Nx
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can't currently be installed on disks with a sector
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size other than 512 bytes (e.g.,
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.Dq 640 MB
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90mm M-O media). You can, however,
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mount ADOSFS partitions on such M-O's.
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.
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.Ss2 Preparing your hard disk with HDToolBox
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.Pp
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A full explanation of HDToolBox can be found with your
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.Tn AmigaDOS
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manuals and is beyond the scope of this document.
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.Pp
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The first time you partition a drive, you need to set its drive
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type so that you have working geometry parameters. To do this
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you enter the
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.Dq Change drive type
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menu, and either use
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.Dq read parameters from drive
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or set them manually.
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.Pp
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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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.(enum -offset indent
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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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.It
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Back up the partitions you are keeping.
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.enum)
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.Pp
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What you need to do is partition your drives; creating at least
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root, swap and
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.Pa /usr
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partitions and possibly at least one more for
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.Pa /usr/local
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if you have the space.
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.Pp
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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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.(tag From\ cli -offset indent
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.It From cli
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.Dl Ic "hdtoolbox warpdrive.device"
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.It From wb
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Set the tooltype
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.Pp
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.Dl Ic "SCSI_DEVICE_NAME=warpdrive.device"
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.tag)
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.Pp
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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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.(enum
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Marking all
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.Nx
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partitions as non-bootable, with
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two exceptions: the root partition
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.Pq Pa / ,
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if you want to boot
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.Nx
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directly, or the swap partition, if you want
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to boot the installation miniroot directly.
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.It
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Changing the file system parameters of the partitions to
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.Nx
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ones. This must be done from the
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partitioning section and
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.Dq Advanced options
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must
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be enabled.
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.enum)
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.Pp
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To make the needed changes:
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.Pp
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.(enum -compact -offset indent
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Click the
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.Dq Adv. Options
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button
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.It
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Click the
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.Dq Change file system
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button
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.It
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Choose
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.Dq Custom File System
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.It
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Turn off
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.Dq Automount
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if on.
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.It
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Set the dostype to one of these three choices:
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.(disp
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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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.disp)
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Here
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.Sq Li other
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refers to other partitions you will
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format for reading and writing under
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.Nx
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(e.g.
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.Pa /usr )
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.Pp
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Make sure you press
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.Key RETURN
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to enter this value as some versions of HDToolBox will forget your entry
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if you don't.
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.It
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Turn custom boot code off
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.It
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Set Reserved Blocks start and end to 0.
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.It
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Click Ok.
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.enum)
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.Pp
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On the root
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.Pq Pa /
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(and, for installation, swap) partition,
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set instead this:
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.Pp
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.(enum -compact -offset indent
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Turn custom boot code on
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.It
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Set Reserved Blocks start and end to 0.
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.It
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Set Number of Custom Boot Blocks to 16.
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.It
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Set Automount This Partition on
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.It
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Click Ok.
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.Pp
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Mask and maxtransfer are not used with
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.Nx .
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.enum)
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.(tag Caveat:
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.It Em Caveat:
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The swap (for installation) and the root partition (if you plan to
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use the bootblocks)
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.Em "must be within the first"
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4 gigabytes of the disk!
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The reason for the former is that xstreamtodev uses trackdisk.device
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compatible I/O-calls, the reason for the latter is that the bootblock
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gets a 32bit partition offset from the operating system.
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.tag)
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.Pp
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Once this is done
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.Nx*M
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will be able to recognize your
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disks and which partitions it should use.
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.Ss2 Transferring the miniroot file system
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.
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The
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.Nx*M
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installation or upgrade now uses a
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.Em miniroot
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file system which is installed on the partition used by
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.Nx
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for swapping. This removes the requirement of using a floppy
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disk for the file system used by the installation or upgrade
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process. It also allows more utilities to be present on the
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file system than would be available when using an 880 KB floppy
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disk.
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.Pp
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Once the hard disk has been prepared for
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.Nx ,
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the miniroot file system
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.Pq Pa miniroot.fs
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is transferred to the swap
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partition configured during the hard disk prep (or the existing
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swap partition in the case of an upgrade). The xstreamtodev
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utility provided in the
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.Pa \*M/installation/misc
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directory can
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be used on
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.Tn AmigaDOS
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to transfer the file system for either a new
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installation or an upgrade. The file system can also be
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transferred on an existing
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.Nx
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system for an update by
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using dd. This should only be done after booting
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.Nx
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into single-user state. It may also be possible to shutdown
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to single-user, providing that the single-user state processes
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are not using the swap partition.
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.Pp
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On
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.Tn AmigaDOS ,
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the command:
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.Pp
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.Dl Ic "xstreamtodev --input=miniroot.fs --rdb-name=\*<swap partition\*>"
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.Pp
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where \*<swap partition\*> is the name you gave to the
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.Nx
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partition to be used for swapping. If
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.Ic xstreamtodev
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is unable
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to determine the SCSI driver device name or the unit number
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of the specified partition, you may also need to include the
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option
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.Pp
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.Dl Ic --device=\*<driver.name\*>
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.Pp
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and/or
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.Pp
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.Dl Ic --unit=\*<SCSI unit number\*>
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.Pp
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To transfer the miniroot using
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.Nx ,
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you should be booted up
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in single user state on the current
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.Nx
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system, or use the
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.Ic shutdown now
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command to shutdown to single-user state.
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Then copy the miniroot using
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.Ic dd :
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.Pp
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.Dl Ic "dd if=miniroot.fs of=/dev/rsd0b"
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.Pp
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where
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.Li /dev/rsd0b
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should be the device path of the swap partition
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your system is configured to use. Once the file is copied,
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reboot back to
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.Tn AmigaDOS
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to boot the upgrade kernel.
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.(tag Caveat:
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.It Em Caveat:
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Once you have started installation, if you abort it
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and want to retry you must reinstall the
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.Pa miniroot.fs
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on the swap partition.
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.tag)
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