First cut of the arc notes. I need people to look at them and add/change

things as it apply to their machines... It's far from finished - more or
less just copied from the pmax dir... More will come.

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+Before you start you should familiarize yourself with the BIOS setup
+and how to run programs from the BIOS screen.
+
+You should also examine the guide on the OpenBSD/arc web site, which
+will hopefully soon have more complete and more up-to-date
+instructions than are given in the install document.
+
+If you're installing OpenBSD/arc for the first time it's a very good idea
+to look at the partition sizes of disk you intend installing OpenBSD on.
+Changing the size of partitions after you've installed is difficult.
+If you do not have a spare bootable disk, it may be simpler to  re-install
+OpenBSD again from scratch.
+
+Asumming a classic partition scheme with root (`/') and /usr filesystems,
+a comfortable size for the OpenBSD root filesystem partition is about 32M.
+Hovever it has shown that 64M is not a bad choise when more packages are
+to be installed. A good initial size for the swap partition is twice the
+amount of physical memory in your machine or at least 64M. A minimum /usr
+partition is ~150M but with that you will run into trouble later. A minimum
+size of 350M is recommended. A full binary installation, without X11 or
+other additional software, takes about 130MB in `/usr'.