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authorMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-10-08 14:46:55 +0000
committerMarc Espie <espie@cvs.openbsd.org>1999-10-08 14:46:55 +0000
commit1eda18e3d7268d21c1aaf0badd9a98dcab7908d1 (patch)
treeef591b4dadd2389a4163475cd717bd1949f85165 /distrib/notes/amiga
parent968fce17e56cb415b83434109eabcf35ab017a63 (diff)
Tweaks by jj,
better grammar and spelling by me.
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@@ -3,20 +3,26 @@ drives for use with OpenBSD/amiga. HDToolBox is provided with the
system software and on floppy installation disks since Release 2.0
of AmigaDOS so we will provide instructions for its use.
-Preparing you hard disk with HDToolBox:
+Preparing your hard disk with HDToolBox:
+
+ If you intend to use a harddisk larger than 4 Gb, or partitions
+ larger than 2Gb be advised to either get HDToolBox for AmigaDOS 3.5
+ or a third party harddisk preparation tool (such as HdInstTools)
+ from Aminet, together with the appropriate patches from
+ www.amiga.com to let AmigaDOS see the full size of the drive.
A full explanation of HDToolBox can be found with your
AmigaDOS manuals and is beyond the scope of this document.
- Note you will be modifying your HD's if you mess something
- up here you could lose everything on all the drives that
- you configure. It is therefore advised that you:
+ Note that you will be modifying your HD. If you mess something
+ up here you could lose *EVERYTHING* on all the drives that
+ you configure. You are therefore advised to:
Write down your current configuration. Do this
by examining each partition on the drive and the
drives parameters (from Change drive type.)
- Back up the partitions you are keeping.
+ Back up all partitions you want to keep.
What you need to do is partition your drives; creating at least
root, swap and /usr partitions and possibly some more for
@@ -60,9 +66,9 @@ Preparing you hard disk with HDToolBox:
- Turn off `Automount' if on.
- Set the dostype to one of these three choices:
- root partition : 0x4e425207
- swap partition : 0x4e425301
- other partitions: 0x4e425507
+ root partition : 0x4e425207 ("NBR\7")
+ swap partition : 0x4e425301 ("NBS\1")
+ other partitions: 0x4e425507 ("NBU\7")
Here `other' refers to other partitions you will
format for reading and writing under OpenBSD (e.g.