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authorMartin Reindl <martin@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-01-08 14:10:03 +0000
committerMartin Reindl <martin@cvs.openbsd.org>2007-01-08 14:10:03 +0000
commitb19bad53854b8a24f3e9ae2af97b33137c7b395c (patch)
treec5b8b25e8bf9cfbadf6dd631fb89150fd7f8e73f
parenta5ca93157f3762f4cd59027dc4b04e04c2f20d39 (diff)
describe disk preparation better, inspired by the sparc miniroot
instructions ok miod@
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-dnl $OpenBSD: prep,v 1.1 2006/11/09 00:45:37 deraadt Exp $
+dnl $OpenBSD: prep,v 1.2 2007/01/08 14:10:02 martin Exp $
To be able to boot the OpenBSD/MACHINE installation program, you will
-need to copy a miniroot image onto the CF or harddrive that the machine
-uses.
+need to prepare the CF or harddrive in another machine. Note this will
+destroy any previous hard disk content.
+
+Use the dd(1) utility to copy the file to the hard drive.
+The command would likely be:
+ dd if=miniroot{:--:}OSrev.fs of=/dev/rwd1c
dnl
dnl XXX bootable partitions