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33 lines
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Before you start you should familiarize yourself with the boot PROM
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of your machine. The older Decstation 2100 and 3100 cannot select
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a kernel from the command line. You need to set the bootpath
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environment variable to point to the disk and kernel you intend to boot.
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You should also examine the guide on the NetBSD/pmax web site, which
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has more complete and more up-to-date instructions than are given in
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the install document.
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NOTE that the instructions on old versions of the web site
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are incorrect. The installation miniroot image for both NetBSD 1.1
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and 1.2 include the 8Kbytes reserved for bootblocks and disklabel.
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The dd commands to write the miniroot to a freshly-labeleld
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disk should have an 'skip=16' added to them, if the 'skip=16'
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option is already present.
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If you're installing NetBSD/pmax for the first time it's a very good idea
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to look at the partition sizes of disk you intend installing NetBSD on.
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Changing the size of partitions after you've installed is difficult.
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If you do not have a spare bootable disk, it may be simpler to re-install
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NetBSD again from scratch.
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Asumming a classic partition scheme with root (`/') and /usr filesystems,
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a comfortable size for the NetBSD root filesystem partition is about 20MB;
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a good initial size for the swap partition is twice the amount of physical
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memory in your machine (though, unlike Ultrix, there are no restrictions on
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the size of the swap partition that would render part of your memory
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unusable). A full binary installation, without X11 or other additional
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software, takes about 130MB in `/usr'. This will be substantially reduced in
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the next release with support fo dynamically-linked shared libraries.
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