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$NetBSD: prep,v 1.6 1998/01/09 18:46:42 perry 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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Apple HD SC Setup
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Hard Disk ToolKit from FWB
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SCSI Director 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 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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http://www.euronet.nl/users/ernstoud/patch.html
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First, you need to choose a drive on which to install NetBSD. 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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NOTE: BE SURE YOU HAVE A RELIABLE BACKUP OF ANY DATA WHICH YOU MAY WANT TO
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KEEP. REPARTITIONING YOUR HARD DRIVE IS AN EXCELLENT WAY TO DESTROY
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IMPORTANT DATA.
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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 NetBSD 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 /etc directory) from
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the more volatile parts of the filesystem. Typical setups place the /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 /usr 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 /var partition.
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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 NetBSD
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(i.e. netbsd.tgz, base.tgz, and etc.tgz) should fit in a 30M partition.
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For a full installation, you should allocate at least 80M. A general rule
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of thumb for sizing the swap partition is to allocate twice as much swap
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space as you have real memory. Having your swap + real memory total at
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least 20M is also a good idea. Systems that will be heavily used or that
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are low on real 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 memory can
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get away with less.
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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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You are now set to install NetBSD on your hard drive.
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