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author | Per Fogelstrom <pefo@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-05-19 22:41:24 +0000 |
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committer | Per Fogelstrom <pefo@cvs.openbsd.org> | 1997-05-19 22:41:24 +0000 |
commit | f626f0d6fb662ca99c46edca3d213030cb9f3133 (patch) | |
tree | 838f5c7fd7fef0a77b390b32155f2ca095c06c50 /distrib/notes/arc/prep | |
parent | f2c54c51f9411507b5ceaadfdf12a0de489c932a (diff) |
New improved (heh) release doc set
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1 files changed, 16 insertions, 13 deletions
diff --git a/distrib/notes/arc/prep b/distrib/notes/arc/prep index ebbf1269ff5..ba78e73007d 100644 --- a/distrib/notes/arc/prep +++ b/distrib/notes/arc/prep @@ -1,21 +1,24 @@ -Before you start you should familiarize yourself with the BIOS setup -and how to run programs from the BIOS screen. +Before you start you should familiarize yourself with the ARC Bios setup +and how to run programs from the ARC 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. +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 +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'. +a comfortable size for the OpenBSD root filesystem partition (a) is about +32Mb. The install will take ~18Mb of that. Hovever it has shown that 60M +is not a bad choise when more packages are to be installed. It is recommended +that the 'a' partition and the MSDOS (i) partition uses the first 64Mb. +A good initial size for the swap (b) partition is twice the amount of physical +memory in your machine or at least 64M. +A minimum /usr partition (e) 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 any other additional software, takes about 120MB in `/usr'. + |